About Me

Background & Training

I am a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) through the Somatic Experiencing International program, the professional training founded by Dr. Peter Levine. This training has given me a deep understanding of how the nervous system responds to overwhelming experiences, and how to work gently with those responses to restore safety and ease.

I completed my Hakomi Foundation Training with Halko Weiss, one of the originators and leading teachers of the Hakomi Method, and am currently completing my Hakomi Advanced Training with Weiss. Hakomi brings a mindfulness-based, body-centred lens to psychotherapy that I find profoundly complementary to somatic work.

I am also a licensed physiotherapist (BPT) and a trained craniosacral therapist through the Upledger Institute. These foundations in physical and bodywork inform everything I do — they give me a richly embodied understanding of how body and mind are not separate systems, but one continuous whole.

Professional Experience

Before moving into psychotherapeutic work, I spent years as a rehabilitation specialist with international organisations including the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), working in conflict zones and humanitarian settings. That work brought me into close contact with some of the most challenging expressions of human trauma — and deepened my conviction that healing, even from the most overwhelming experiences, is possible.

I continue to work as a consultant trainer and in emergency response for international organisations, supporting the development of rehabilitation capacity in complex settings. This ongoing engagement keeps me connected to the broader landscape of physical and psychological care, and to the communities that need it most.

What Draws Me to This Work

My journey from physiotherapy into somatic and trauma work was not a departure — it was a deepening. For years, working with bodies in physical rehabilitation, I noticed something that went beyond muscle and bone: the way a body holds its history. Tension patterns that outlasted the injury. A particular stillness that had nothing to do with rest. The body, I came to understand, is not merely a vehicle for the mind — it is a record of everything we have lived through.

Working with the International Committee of the Red Cross in conflict zones sharpened this understanding in ways I had not anticipated. In those environments, I worked alongside people whose nervous systems had been pushed to their absolute limits. I saw how trauma lives not just in memory, but in the breath, in posture, in the way someone reaches for a glass of water. I also saw, repeatedly, the extraordinary resilience of the human body when given the right conditions for healing.

It was this experience that drew me to Somatic Experiencing and Hakomi — two approaches that honour what I had witnessed: that healing is not simply a cognitive process. The body knows things the mind cannot articulate. When we slow down enough to listen — with curiosity, without judgement — profound change becomes possible. This is the heart of my work: creating the conditions in which that listening can happen.

Credentials

• SEP Somatic Experiencing Practitioner — Somatic Experiencing International
• Hakomi Foundation & Advanced Training — Halko Weiss
• BPT Licensed Physiotherapist
• CST Craniosacral Therapy — Upledger Institute
• Other Rehabilitation Specialist and Trainer for International Organizations (ICRC, WPT)