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. My practice is deeply committed to supporting the LGBTQIA+, trans, and non-binary communities, as well as individuals of colour.

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.

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.

Having danced since I was a small child 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 at the South Bank Centre in the heart of art and culture in London 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 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.

Speaking the language of movement and non verbal expression allowed me to work extensively with children, mothers and their babes, babies, toddlers and under 5’s. Prior to language - children embody their feelings and move them - running away, bouncing up and down, hiding, stamping, banging and reaching out - these embodiments become aspects of our movement profile as adults.

Cultivating skills in movement observation and non verbal communication took me into the fields of ‘dance in health’ where I danced with patients in hospitals and hospices.

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.

I continue to move and dance, alone and with others and sometimes 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

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.