23 years ago I started working as a wilderness guide and noticed that when people spent time outside their anxiety dissipated, their mood shifted, their thinking changed and they experienced a greater sense of wellbeing. Training as a psychotherapist at the same time as guiding people outside, I wondered why mainstream psychology made not one mention of these significant shifts available when we go into wild, or simply more natural settings.

 

So while I am a psychotherapist and registered clinical social worker, I call myself a nature-allied therapist. For me it means that, unlike most mainstream therapies where the difficulties people experience are seen as largely isolated to their own heads, I see each person as an ecosystem, a living web of interconnected relationships, all of which effect .

 

Through a somatically-based integrative psychotherapy I focus on supporting an individual's capacity for increasing connection and aliveness. I work with people on the stories they are telling themselves unconsciously; what those beliefs are and where they came from; and guide them toward the possibility of letting go of that story, or letting go of the hold that those stories have on them. 

 

I weave nature-based, contemplative and somatic practices into my traditional therapy training and use, as a foundation, my clinical training in NARM (Neuro-Affective Relational Model working with developmental trauma, Complex-PTSD, intergenerational trauma and collective historical trauma).

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I also offer Constellations sessions - family, systems and nature - should this feel like a valuable lens into family dynamics, patterns and challenges.

 

I am based in Hoedspruit, Limpopo and currently work online. Please contact me if you would like in-person sessions.