At Moving and Being we combine talking with movement and awareness practices that invite your body to become part of the conversation. How we do this looks different for each person. It’s a delicate process to begin to understand what we have embodied in our journey through life so I am always guided by you and what you are leaning towards. Relationship is at the heart of a transformative therapy process so I move at your pace, alongside you.

The past lives on in our bodies, in how we move, where we move, how fast we move, how or whether we react or respond to what happens to us. It feels so familiar and sometimes it might feel like things will never change. Things feel stuck. These kinds of feelings often bring people to therapy - a repeating pattern or a recurring feeling of sadness or worry often based on fears or things that are beyond our control or on messages we received as little children.

This is therapy that invites you to slow down and helps you to turn down the noise of overthinking. Whatever you are struggling with, whether you are in the eye of the storm or whether the storm has passed and your are looking for a space to make sense of where you have been, I offer a trauma informed approach that acknowledges all the ways that your body has coped with experience that was over whelming. I offer tools and practices for allowing your mind to be more in touch with your body so that feelings can be information for making the next move, the right next step towards living better, however big or small.

I provide a dedicated, affirming space for adults (18+) from all walks of life, particularly people differently abled, LGBTQIA+, trans, and non-binary communities, and global majority people.

I offer online and in person sessions in Hastings, East Sussex. Sessions cost between £55 and £75 depending on your financial situation.

I offer short and long term therapeutic processes starting from 6 sessions to a more open ended process.

For Counsellors, Creative Arts Therapists and Psychotherapists and anyone who works with human relationships in their working practice.

Having a safe, confidential space in which to reflect can transform your practice. I offer creative and embodied tools to help you to orientate yourself in the complexity of human relationships. and organisational systems

My areas of expertise are in trauma, particularly with c/y/p in education settings, main stream and SEN and adult identifying women, migrants, L:GBTQI+.

I have 12 years post qualifying clinical experience and a Diploma in supervision (UKCP approved) from the London Centre for Psychodrama. I receive regular supervision from a senior supervisor and my practice abides by the UKCP and ADMPUK code of ethics.

Movement allows us to express feelings for which we have no words. Dancing allows us to express our spirit and energy and connect with others in time and space.

This therapeutic modality does not require language to be effective. Movement and body language can be ‘read’ instantly without the need for words so it’s appropriate for all ages and particularly people with learning differences, who are differently abled, or have sensory impairments or are non verbal.

You do not need to feel confident at dancing or moving or be physically fit - an openness to being present and a willingness to be curious about non verbal expression are the only requirements.

Movement, dance, physical expression and embodiment practices have been the back bone of my life to date. They have been a constant thread that has nourished and inspired me, physically, emotionally, cognitively and creatively and I feel immensely grateful to be able to listen to my body and answer the call. It might be as simple as going for a walk, as relaxing as going for a cranio sacral therapy session or as complex as improvising with other dancers on a stage. It is all body language.

When a person expresses a feeling through their body, without words, we as the observer have an instant recognition - we feel it too, we feel it deeply in our own body, we know and understand and we are moved too. It is impossible not to be profoundly moved by non verbal expression when it is totally authentic.

Having danced since I was small I found my way to a professional dance training in London which paved the way for me to inhabit the world of the performing arts in a number of roles. I worked in the dance and arts education department at the South Bank Centre in the epicentre of arts and culture before a longing to inhabit the dance studio returned and I left a really great job for an uncertain future as a movement and dance practitioner.

I ditched choreography and steps and began actively exploring somatic movement and movement improvisation which means moving without a set structure or steps. Making it up as you go along. This can be pretty wild when you are moving with others who are also also making it up as they go - it requires an ability to read movement and respond in an instant, to get involved with whats happening physically, to change direction, to move and be moved.

Speaking the language of movement and non verbal expression lead me to work extensively with children, mothers and their babes, babies, toddlers and under 5’s. Mothers instinctively began to ask me if I could decode what their child was thinking or feeling when they did this move or that move, whether that was biting another child or hiding under a chair. I too was fascinated and thus began my journey of learning about human development, how the psyche develops in synch with movement development as we grow and as we encounter developmental and relational challenges and about how experiences shape us on a bodily level. I took special interest in studying the dance of relationship between new borns and their caregivers and went on to work with this population to support attachment and bonding when mental health threatens the bonding process.

My non verbal communication skills took me into the field of ‘dance in health’ working with bed bound patients recovering from operations or with chronic illness, young and old, in hospitals and hospices, using movement and creativity to connect and play. Another profoundly moving experience that felt like an immense privilege.

I have been a practicing psychotherapist since 2009 specialising in non verbal communication and body language as part of the therapy process. I have worked in acute mental health in the NHS, in fostering and adoption, in family assessment, early years settings, schools and with people with sensory impairments and since 2021 with adults in private practice.

As well as formal qualifications I have studied and practiced many forms of movement and dance, somatic movement practices, and body work include Body Mind Centring, Authentic Movement, Skinner Releasing Technique., Continuum, Feldenkrais, Body Mapping, contact improvisation and with many artists from across the globe.

I continue to walk, to move and dance, in studios and clubs, with others, outdoors with the elements and with the support of the earth.

My qualifications :

Diploma in Clinical Supervision. London School of Psychodrama. 2020 - 21

Masters Degree in Dance Movement Psychotherapy. Roehampton University 2006 -09

Post Graduate Certificate Creative Arts Therapy. Roehampton University 2004-05

Dance Leaders in The Community Award. 1996

ITEC Anatomy Physiology 2001

Degree in Contemporary Dance 1990 - 93