What is Coherence Therapy?
Coherence therapy is a form of depth work that treats your symptoms as meaningful, not random. Anxiety, OCD, depression, chronic indecision or relationship problems are understood as expressions of underlying emotional knowledge/learnings/schemas, often outside of conscious awareness. In other words, a part of you has learned that the symptom is necessary for protection, attachment or control, even while another part of you wants it gone.
In our work we follow the symptom all the way down to those implicit schemas and emotional truths/learnings. We articulate them clearly, in your own words, until they feel recognisably true and precise rather than vague background noise. This is not about installing positive thoughts. It is about bringing into awareness the real organising beliefs that your unconscious mind has been using for years. (Making the unconscious, conscious)
Depth work of this kind is careful, experiential and collaborative. It respects the fact that what looks “irrational” from the outside has usually been exquisitely logical given what you have lived through. My job is to help you discover that logic and then genuinely reach lasting transformational change.
DP/DR Support
Have you ever felt like you're not real? Like the world isn’t real anymore? Like you're watching yourself live your life instead of actually living it? If that’s you, then you may be experiencing DP/DR. I suffered with DP/DR for over a year and have a passion for helping other people navigate their way out of it. DP/DR can be absolutely debilitating, terrifying and hopeless, especially when accompanied by various other symptoms like intrusive thoughts, visual disturbances, tinnitus, bright vision, the world looking 2D or flat, not feeling anything anymore, alongside many more. Many people experiencing DP/DR feel like traditional therapy fails them, and it failed me, too. Many therapists are not even familiar with DP/DR and therefore cannot relate to people experiencing it. Getting support from someone who has personally lived this made all the difference for me, and I hope I can be that person for others
About me
My journey into the world of mental health began as a meditation teacher for one of the largest mental health organizations in the world—HealthyGamer. For three years, I worked with thousands of people across the globe, helping them cultivate calm, presence, and equanimity. My background is in Mahayana Buddhism, and I use various tools from that tradition to help people overcome things like rumination and anxious thinking.
After many years as a mindfulness teacher, I began training with Dr. Tori Olds, in experiential therapies such as Internal Family Systems (IFS), Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), and, most importantly, Coherence Therapy. Through this training I discovered my passion for Coherence Therapy, which eventually led me to pursue official training with the Coherence Therapy Psychology Institute.
Aside from that, I am also a qualified secondary school teacher and former semi-professional athlete (Sprinter). I am deeply passionate about meeting people in their area of struggle, and together, finding a way through to lasting healing.