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.

This workshop is aimed at mid life women who may be navigating bodily changes and is designed to ignite your joy of moving and invites you to get to know your unique movement signature in an inclusive, non judgemental, body positive setting. 

If you enjoy group activity, are interested to learn more about yourself and your world through attention, movement and feeling then this is for you.  

As well as being guided in moving together, expect  to learn about the foundations of human movement patterns, moving with gravity as your friend and how to use movement to lean into your own creativity. 

You do not need to feel confident at dancing or moving or be physically fit to attend this workshop. An openness to learning and exploring is the only requirement. 

Please note this workshop is not a therapy group but rather a learning space that explores the therapeutic potential of movement.  

If you are interested in becoming part of a regular dance movement therapy group that supports a more in depth group therapeutic process do get in touch as this will be starting in November.

Feel free to bring a notebook and pen and wear warm clothes that keep your body covered and comfortable. 

Saturday 26th September at The Wellington Centre (Yoga Studio)

11 - 4pm ( bring your own lunch) 

Cost £45 

To register your interest and pay for the workshopplease drop me an email at : hello@movingandbeing.com

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.