In every session, I blend the following into my practice:

1. Skilled bodywork: bringing presence and sensitivity to sense what your body has to say, to map the patterns of tensions that run through your body, and work with depth and presence to help release them.

2. Somatic Guidance: I guide your awareness to observe sensations within the body; first with the breath, then to touch, then moving with touch, and then into the areas where we are working, and to the tensions that we will be working with.

3. Assessment: Body Analysis, Observation, Sensing, Feedback, Calibration, and Mapping: I ask for feedback as we work; how you feel, what you feel in your body, what you feel in the area we are working, any changing sensations, and any feelings, memories, or associations that might come up for you.

   At the start, this helps me map my felt sense of tensions held within your body to your subjective experience of them. This informs me of your sensitivity to what we are working with, which helps me calibrate how I work, so I can support you as we approach these areas of discomfort in a way that feels safe throughout. During the session, I develop an understanding of the network of tensions held within your body, and this bodymap then informs my later practice. This initial assessment helps me understand the issues you’d like to work with, what’s going on in your body, what you feel, and your relationship with your body.

   It is to this assessment that I bring my depth of understanding to. Assessment helps me develop a more comprehensive understanding of you, what you would like to acheive, of where you are, the work we need to do, so I can better support you towards realising your treatment goals. to apply my understanding to your context, to help you also understand it, assessment

   Assessment is a continual process, as this treatment is aimed at change. Your awareness, your somatic experience, the nature of what you observe, your interpretation, feelings, reactions, and tensions; all of it may change. Even your experience during the session and between each subsequent session may also evolve, as your experience and understanding develop with each session of the treatment plan. Even tensions, emotions, and trauma that have felt like a permanent feature can start to change and perhaps even release. Over time, the intention is that your relationship with and your understanding of your self can also change as we work.

   It is to this assessment-informed understanding of you, and my understanding of this changing nature, to this changing experience and your changing experience of it, and understanding of my practice, that I bring my depth of understanding to help support and guide you through this co-participatory process at every stage of the journey.

4. Journey Guidance, with applied understanding and informed intuition: I ask for feedback throughout the session, which helps me map what I sense with what you feel, which helps me understand you, and calibrate how we work, so you can feel safe throughout. Feedback also informs how we work together; both verbal feedback and feedback from your body. Together, we approach areas of tension, felt discomfort, in a way that feels safe, allows you to remain present without reacting, and towards observation without reaction, and observation as tensions soften and release. It also helps me understand what you feel, how your awareness changes, any reactions or resistance to feeling, and/or any memories, emotions or associations that might arise with the tensions we are working with. I bring my understanding to help you understand what you experience and guide you through the journey.

5. Analysis, involving Feedback, Calibration, Mapping and Intuition: I ask for feedback as we work; how you feel, what you feel in your body, what you feel in the area we are working, and report any feelings, memories, or associations that might come up for you. At the start, this helps me map my felt sense of your body and tensions held with your subjective experience of them. This helps calibrate how I work, and also informs me about what we are working with, and how I support you as we approach these areas of discomfort in a way that feels safe. During the session, I also examine the network of tensions held within your body, providing me a body map, which then informs my later practice.

6. Informed Understanding: This my understanding to what you have shared, the map of tensions I have developed, what I have felt in your body, and what you felt As we work, I will ask you to provide feedback

7. I guide you towards observation of sensations, staying present without reaction, and observation of changes over time. I guide you to understand your experience as we work, support you through whatever may arise, and how your body might react, and support you on the journey towards resolution.