I am a certified trauma professional with 18 years experience providing counselling/psychotherapy.  I have dedicated my career to working with people who have experienced trauma and who have found traditional therapies unhelpful.  I use trauma specific strategies to help people to manage trauma symptoms including anxiety, depression, anger, guilt, shame, low self-esteem, flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, emotional dysregulation, relationship difficulties, self-harming, addiction and any overwhelming emotional responses.  My particular speciality is working with people who experience dissociation as a trauma response.I am a certified clinical EFT (tapping) practitioner and a sandplay therapist.  I have been lucky enough to work with hundreds of clients over the years and who have been brave enough to put their trust in me and the process of recovery. Being a trauma specialist means that I have had specific training in working with people who have experienced different forms of trauma.  These include single incident traumas such as natural disasters, accidents, one off violent attacks or complex trauma including childhood abuse, domestic violence and attachment issues (growing up with narcissistic/addictive or abusive parents).I am able to use a variety of modalities to meet the needs of each individual client.  These include ACT, somatic therapy, expressive therapies, EFT (tapping), narrative therapy, positive psychology, sensorimotor psychotherapy, structural dissociation model, mindfulness based stress reduction, person-centered, pschodynamic therapy, somatic therapy.Many symptoms such as anxiety and depression are normal responses to trauma and I can help you to understand how the body and brain adapts to traumatic situations by forming patterns of behaviour through neural connections.  Although these patterns are normal I will teach to how to achieve new healthy patterns through targeted interventions that are easy and effective.