Services Offered
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Sweet As Therapy specialises in helping individual adults and couples break free from trauma through integrative Trauma, Attachment and EMDR therapy approaches.
Humans are impacted by experiences in all stages of life. Information about experiences is stored in the form of images, emotions, physical sensations and belief/cognitions. This stored information informs our behaviour and experience of life, and impacts on those around us.
Our integrative therapeutic approach accesses this stored information. This leads to new insights and repair/ re-wiring of the stored information in the brain and body. This results in substantial emotional relief and constructive behaviour changes leading to greater levels of empowerment and overall wellbeing.
Therapy is provided in-person or online.
First Responders and Healthcare Professionals
With a background in both general medical practice and emergency care, I intimately understand the impact of trauma and vicarious trauma on personal wellbeing and relationships, and also how attachment and early development interacts with this.
I work with individuals and groups. Participants could be general medical practitioners or specialists, nurses, psychologists, counsellors, firemen and other first responders.
I am trained in the Acute Stress Adaptive Protocol (ASAP) which is a safe and very effective Early Intervention protocol based on EMDR methodology. These group programmes are targeted at early intervention and building resilience to radically improve wellbeing.
Couples
How we relate in longterm intimate relationships has a profound impact on ourselves, our children and society. I am passionate about working with couples on relationship matters,
because this work can break the impact of transgenerational trauma. I have also experienced longterm relationships to be a very powerful vehicle to stimulate personal growth and growth as a team.
Our relationship therapy is targeted to couples who feel stuck, feel misunderstood, have relating and communication issues, feel disconnected and disillusioned. Sweet As therapy offers very specific relating skills and tools that, when applied, help your relationship grow into the relationship you want.
Sweet As therapy integrates different modalities including attachment theory, interpersonal neurobiology and development. Your parents’ parenting shaped you, and influenced your style of relating. This influences relationships with your partner and those close to you, including your children.
Individuals
At Sweet As we help individuals to break free from feeling stuck and with relationship issues. Clients may present with symptoms of depression, anxiety or Complex PTSD.
Experience impacts how we are shaped through life, starting when we are very young.
Sweet As therapy for individuals is targeted to adults. It encompasses an integrative approach, including Attachment and Internal Family Systems (IFS) informed EMDR, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Somatic Experiencing and other modalities.
Speaking Events
I enjoy sharing information!
One way of doing this is to address groups in the form of seminars and interactive workshops.
I have lots of experience in developing and presenting to a big variety of audiences and enjoy the challenge of engaging with every audience!
Current focuses are on the following:
- Vicarious Trauma in Healthcare Professionals and First Responders
- Understanding Attachment Theory and Attachment Informed Therapy
- Interpersonal Neurobiology – why it’s important to understand what’s going on in the brain and body