These notes are for children from about 18 months old. For babies things are different. Before bringing your child for a treatment, please make sure you have booked a phone consultation so that I have had a chance to hear about what you want for your child and what their experiences have been. Our sessions…
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Being nine years old
A crisis is a change where we don’t have any idea what the outcome will be. The past is not any longer accessible and the future is unknown. It is going to be different, but there is no road map. Being nine is a time of crisis. The child is no longer cocooned in the…
Slow Healing
In an era of fast food, fast cars and instant communication, we have also come to expect fast medicine: antibiotics have given us the illusion of miraculous healing, pain killers do just that and a lot of emphasis is on diagnosis – give this malaise a name and an identity that separates it from my…
Transformative Dreamwork
In a competitive society ruled by logic, ambition and achievement, it is difficult to listen to the inner wisdom that speaks to us through metaphor and imagery. It is hard to notice the whispers of coincidence and synchronicity. Yet it is by these promptings that our deepest wishes, our most secret yearnings are revealed and…
Heart Wisdom
We are all being drip fed a very pernicious poison: “Vulnerable categories,”———–“Social distancing,”————-“Lock down”……….. “We are a danger to each other,”————“We are in danger ourselves.” The whole idea of washing our hands tells us we are unclean……….. Now my rational adult mind can cope with all of this. I understand the situation we are in…
Stepping over the threshold
There is a special moment at every threshold, the moment when neither the place you are leaving nor the place you will arrive have a hold on you. Take a breath there, in that limbic place before you cross the threshold. Sometimes we are precipitated into new landscapes by tragedy or joy. Bereavement and falling…
In Celebration of Motherhood.
It is Mothers Day. What? One day to celebrate the whole amazing phenomenon of motherhood? You’ve got to be joking! Mothering goes on every day, all day and often for most of the night. It’s not my intention to ignore the contribution of fathers in the upbringing of children. I have the utmost admiration for…
Finding ourselves in a world gone mad.
There are signs all around that the season is changing. The days are longer, the birds are singing and in some places even the daffodils are braving the weather. But what if you can’t feel the same sense of new life? A number of people have been expressing to me the challenge of finding the…