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.  So whatever you are struggling with, this is therapy that invites you to slow down and helps you to turn down the noise of overthinking and make space for a different kind of knowing. 

We attend to your words and your story as a guide towards noticing how your body is responding. Gradually, you begin to notice the subtle language of your body, the micro movement, tensions, habits and patterns that are part of your embodied life and history.  Noticing this language can offer clues to the past and invites new perspectives on how you feel in the present.   This is therapy that offers tools and practices as well as a space to be heard. 

If you are wondering about the meaning of the word“somatic”in a therapeutic context click on the word to be taken to a link. How you engage with this process is always a collaborative process, you choose what feels right or comfortable and you are always an active agent in your therapeutic process.

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. To enquire about working together, email me with a brief

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

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.

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 wards 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 in improvisation requires mastery of the movement of one’s limbs in space, it requires lightness and weight and everything in between. 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. 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 in these setting offered profound connection and this lead me to begin to train in creative therapy and trauma and then in Dance Movement Psychotherapy.

To dance is be playful, and playfulness is how we learn, even as adults. It is how we learn to be creative with how we live our lives 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.