This means I work both with the mind and body to deliver lasting change.

The top-down approach involves working with the mind to initiate change.

This involves:

🧠 Developing awareness of how your behaviours, emotions and thoughts are contributing to your unhealthy relationship patterns

🔍 Gaining deeper understanding of how your core beliefs, trauma and nervous system works and affect your day-to-day experiences, including how you interpret and react to your relationship experiences

🛠️ Learning practical tools and strategies to manage triggers, interrupt unhealthy behaviours and rewire your unconscious mind to instil lasting change

The bottom-up approach to healing begins with the body rather than the mind. The approach is guided by the sensations of the body to access to somatic or implicit memories where the origins of our trauma and core beliefs are stored. This is how we can access the root of our trauma and wounds and heal it at the source to deliver long-lasting change.

For this approach, I apply somatic healing techniques to

🧘‍♀️ Guide you on a journey to tune inwards to your body's feltsense. Before we engage in an unhealthy behaviour, there is often a sensation that arises in the body. The goal here is to tap into that sensation and get curious about what's underneath it so we can let it guide our healing.

🔍 Inquire into the origins, limiting beliefs and trapped emotions and energy underneath the feltsense. This process will give us insight into why you are the way you are and what you might be trying to achieve with your unhealthy behaviours. This insight will help you develop a much deeper understanding of yourself and have compassion for your unhealthy behaviours.

🌊 Process what needs processing. The previous step will subsequently let us in on what needs to happen for you to feel better. This can involve processing trapped emotions, releasing stored survival stress, dismantling deep-seated beliefs or narratives, inner child healing, etc.

At the end of this process, you would typically experience...

🌟 A sense of relief and lightness, as if a weight has been lifted off your shoulders

🔍 Gain newfound perspective that helps you see things in a new light

💖 Increased self-compassion and understanding for both yourself and your (ex) partner

🦋 More liberated from old patterns, triggers and past trauma

🌱 Empowered to make healthier choices in relationships because you're less burdened by your emotions and have more access to your higher self

(Caveat: These experiences are based on the average client. Note that this may vary across individuals based on where you are at when you first start this work.)