At Moving and Being I combine traditional talking psychotherapy with gentle movement and body awareness practices that invite your body to become part of the conversation. This is therapy that invites you to slow down and helps you to turn down the noise of overthinking to make space for a different kind of knowing, a different kind of intuition that is not learnt but felt and is unique to you.

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 is simple and accessible and combines talking and moving and being. This is therapy that offers 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.

In this process your words and your story are a guide towards noticing how your body is responding. Gradually, you begin to notice the subtle language of your body, becoming curious about habitual movements, places of tension that reveal how much you have been holding, perhaps a tendency to hold your breath or a feeling of stuckness around particular memories and experiences. Noticing this language offers an invitation to feel more and to feel more is to be more in touch with the vulnerability of what it means to be a human being.

I provide a dedicated, affirming space for adults (18+) from all walks of life. My practice is deeply committed to supporting the LGBTQIA+, trans, and non-binary communities, as well as individuals of color. I offer specialized, accessible care for neurodivergent individuals—recognizing self-identification as valid—as well as those living with disabilities or sensory impairments.

I offer online and in person sessions at The Wellington Centre in Hastings, East Sussex and on line sessions. Sessions are £65 with concessions for those on a low income.

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.

THE ART OF BEING

A Weekend of Movement and Mark Making for Women

The Wellington Centre, Hastings

28th & 29th  March 2026

10 - 4.30pm

£190 / £170 early bird

I invite you to join me and a small circle of women for a guided weekend of embodied exploration and expression. This is permission to attend to your body through the eyes of your senses and imagination, to trace where your energy is moving and to map your journey in colour and texture on a life size canvas.  I bring a many years of skills and expertise as a dance artist and creative therapist to the facilitation of this intimate and confidential process. I provide your canvas and all art materials although you are welcome to bring your own along too. No previous experience is required, your curiosity to tap into your embodied creativity is enough.

£190 for the weekend, to include all art materials.  £170 Early Bird - book by 1st March.

What to expect : The process is guided by my but how you move with the process is unique to you. I keep the groups small because each person’s process will be different. Expect group sharing and reflecting, movement explorations, moving with eyes closed and open, moving together and alone, getting in touch with playfulness, giving and receiving care and attention to oneself and others, active imagination (guided). Breaks for refreshments (provided) and lunch (not provided) and be ready to take a large roll of paper (canvas) home with you.

What to bring : Wear loose, warm (layers in case you feel chilly) and comfortable clothing that you don’t mind getting pain on. Bring your lunch as you may not feel like leaving the space. Bring a blanket for laying on or resting in.

I have been a practicing psychotherapist since 2009 and 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.

Prior to this I was a dancer/ performer, a dance education project manager a somatic movement researcher and a dance educator working with children, young people and adults. I became passionate about movement improvisation which means moving without a set structure or steps. To dance with others cultivates skills in non verbal communication and it requires a particular kind of attention, both to one’s own moving body and to the movement and expression of other dancers. It requires an ability to shift between lightness and weight, strength, speed and sensitivity in an instant. Cultivating these skills and practices took me into the fields of dance and health where I danced in hospitals and hospices with people living with long term illness and brain injuries.

Movement play and dance are the language we use before language, or when language is temporarily unavailable, or after langue has left us.

I have learned so much about our development as humans from working in early years settings as a movement therapist. Prior to language - children simply embody their feelings and these embodiments become aspects of our movement profile as adults.

To dance is be playful, and playfulness is how we learn, even as adults. It is how we learn to be creative and it firmly roots us in the here and now.

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

ITEC Anatomy Physiology 2001

Degree in Contemporary Dance 1990 - 93

Somatic Movement practices that I have studied and that contribute to my work include Body Mind Centring, Authentic Movement, Skinner Releasing Technique.