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When understanding yourself isn't enough

We can know a great deal about ourselves.

We can understand our history, recognise our patterns and have very good explanations for why we react the way we do.

And still find ourselves doing the same things.

Counselling gives us a place to slow down and look more closely at what is happening.

You bring whatever is happening in your life — anxiety, relationships, recurring patterns, emotional overwhelm, difficult experiences, change or simply a sense that something isn't quite working.

We talk.

But we don't necessarily stay in the story.

A different kind of counselling

At times, we may become curious about what is happening underneath the story — in your body, your feelings, your breathing and your immediate experience.

We might slow down.

Notice.

Stay with a sensation.

Become aware of a familiar reaction as it happens.

Rather than immediately trying to explain or change the experience, we become curious about it.

This is where therapy can become more experiential.

InnerWork

I use the term InnerWork to describe this deeper exploration of your inner experience.

It is not another therapy.

It is not a separate service.

It is the process of becoming more directly aware of yourself — your body, feelings, thoughts, attention, reactions and habitual patterns.

Often we try to change ourselves by understanding ourselves better.

InnerWork asks us to experience ourselves more directly.

What happens in your body when you feel threatened?

What happens just before you react?

Can you stay present with an uncomfortable feeling without immediately acting on it?

What do you notice when you stop trying to make an experience different?

These are the kinds of questions we can explore.

The role of Breathwork

Breathwork is one of the tools I may use within counselling.

Sometimes bringing attention to the breath can help us become more aware of what is happening in the moment.

Sometimes a particular breathing practice may be useful.

Sometimes it isn't.

There is no requirement to do breathwork, and there is no fixed formula for how a session should unfold.

We work with what is appropriate for you.

I have more than 14 years' experience practising and facilitating breathwork and have facilitated more than 3000+ sessions.

Fourteen years of InnerSense and embodied practice

For more than 14 years, I have worked closely with Dr Graham Mead and his foundational work in embodied self-awareness. During this time, I completed the InnerSense course three times before transitioning into an observational and supportive capacity across approximately 20 subsequent InnerSense programmes. While Graham was overseas, I was privileged to lead the InnerSense programme for a year.

This immersion deeply shaped my understanding of somatic self-awareness and heavily influenced the development of my own clinical work. InnerSense is Graham Mead’s programme, and I openly and gratefully acknowledge that lineage.

The work I offer through my private practice bridges this deep experiential lineage with formal therapeutic disciplines and a grounded spiritual foundation. For the past 15 years, I have spent four to five months each year immersed in India, dedicating substantial time to the origins of Advaita Vedanta, yoga, pranayama, and meditation. This dual perspective allows my counselling practice to hold space for a deeper, spiritual element, offering clients a pathway to connect with something beyond just their immediate thoughts and stories.

My comprehensive approach is informed by:

• Clinical & Somatic Practice: Over 14 years of facilitating breathwork, backed by my foundational counselling and therapeutic background.

• Eastern Lineages & Spiritual Practice: Extensive annual studies in India alongside a long-standing Vipassana meditation practice and completing Michael Brown’s The Presence Process three times.

• Relationship & Systems Frameworks: Ongoing, dedicated interest-level studies into leading relationship modalities, including the work of the Gottmans, Terry Real (Relational Life Therapy), and Imago Relationship Therapy.

• Analytical & Group Dynamics: My earlier professional career as a criminal barrister and mediator, which refined my capacity to navigate complex human dynamics, crisis, and resolution.

You may come because...

You may be experiencing:

• anxiety or persistent worry

• emotional overwhelm

• relationship difficulties

• recurring emotional or behavioural patterns

• the effects of difficult or traumatic experiences

• a major life transition

• a sense of disconnection from yourself

• difficulty understanding your own reactions

• a desire to understand yourself more deeply

You don't need to know exactly what you need before we begin.

We can start with a conversation.

How we work

There is no fixed formula.

Some sessions may be largely conversational.

At other times, we may slow down and pay closer attention to your immediate experience.

Breathwork or another experiential practice may sometimes be appropriate.

The work is responsive rather than formulaic.

The intention is to develop a more direct awareness of yourself — and from that awareness, a different relationship with your thoughts, feelings, reactions and patterns may become possible.

What this work is — and isn't

My practice synthesises formal counselling and therapeutic conversation with experiential, somatic, and spiritual practices—such as breathwork, mindfulness, and embodied self-awareness. These distinct elements are fluidly woven together based entirely on what is safe, appropriate, and resonant for you as an individual.

I use the term InnerWork to define this deeper, experiential process of exploring your personal reality directly.

Please note that InnerWork, breathwork, and spiritual exploration are deeply transformative experiential practices, but they are not medical, psychiatric, or psychological treatments, nor are they a substitute for clinical healthcare. Where specialist medical, psychiatric, or clinical mental-health assessment is required, I am fully committed to recommending and directing you toward appropriately qualified medical professionals.

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