The foundations that shape my therapeutic work

ACT-informed therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based, third-wave cognitive behavioural therapy that offers a grounded way of meeting life as it is. Rather than trying to remove difficult thoughts or emotions, the work focuses on creating space for inner experience and relating to it with greater presence, openness, and care.

Mindfulness

Our minds naturally wander — to the past, the future, or ideas of who we think we should be. This is part of being human, yet it often pulls us away from what is happening right now.

Mindfulness is the practice of meeting experience as it is. By gently bringing attention to the present moment, we notice thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, and our surroundings without judgment or the need to change anything.

When the mind wanders, noticing that it has drifted is the practice. Each moment of awareness is a return. Over time, this returning becomes more familiar — not because the mind stops wandering, but because our relationship to it softens.

Mindfulness is woven into my therapeutic work as a foundation for presence, clarity, and compassionate self-awareness.

Mind-body awareness

The body is part of every moment — through sensation, posture, breath, and movement. In therapy, gentle attention to the body can support grounding, presence, and clarity, without becoming a separate physical practice.

At times, we may use simple, experiential metaphors to support understanding or awareness. This might involve small movements, shifting position, or briefly standing — not as exercise or technique, but as a way of making an idea more tangible in the moment.

These experiences are always optional and guided with care. They are used to support insight, flexibility, and contact with the present, rather than to train the body or change it. The body becomes a reference point — a quiet way of noticing what is already happening.