Originally trained in person-centered counselling, I went on to train extensively in Hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming.

I then began to extensively study and integrate various somatic approach before embarking on a comprehensive training in Radix, which now forms the core of my work.

What is Radix?

Radix theory is rooted in the work of the psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich, who in the first half of the 20th century recognised a 'functional identity' between the body and mind. He saw that the mind and body are interrelated and that whatever is happening in one is also reflected in the other. Reich saw the body as a 'frozen history' of our life experiences and therefore a direct link to the unconscious material. Whether psychotherapy takes place primarily at a body level, a mental level or an emotional level that work will impact at all three levels.

One of Reich's fundamental concepts was of the life force which flows through the body and links mind, body and emotion. The founder of Radix, Dr Charles Kelley, an experimental psychologist and forward thinker, developed this concept. He named this life force the Radix, meaning root or source. Kelley saw the radix as the energy flow underlying body, mind and spirit and that working with it means working with all three levels. Kelley also explored the relationship between emotion, vision and perception, bringing an important and unique therapeutic concept and tool to Radix work continues to develop and integrates findings from developmental psychology and neuroscience.

My approach is also heavily influenced and informed by the work of Milton Erickson M.D

Appreciated today as a psychotherapy innovator, his “uncommon” therapy was molded by his early career research into the nature of suggestion, hypnotic states, the mental mechanisms underlying psychodynamic processes, and the psychophysiological aspects of trance. He developed a unique, non-directive, naturalistic style that utilised whatever behaviour, ideas or attitudes a patient exhibits. With a deeply humane view of patients, he conceptualised  what he was doing as actively catalyzing some new possibility, and had a  deep respect for the innate receptive and synthetic capacities of the unconscious, which he viewed as a reservoir of creative potential and wisdom.

Find out more about Radix here:​​ https://radix.org/

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