Transforming Touch

Early trauma often settles in the body, in the muscles, organs, and especially in the fascia (connective tissue). A Transforming Touch practitioner focuses on the client’s regulation system rather than on a specific problem. This therapy has a profound effect in bringing about healing, relaxation, and  feelings of safety. As regulation improves, clients who once felt “stuck” often find movement, choice, and a more satisfying way of living.

In childhood, overwhelming or unsupported feelings were often tucked away as a necessary survival strategy. These hidden emotions can become woven into the nervous system, eventually creating a persistent sense that something is wrong or needs to be fixed.

The battery metaphor offers a simple illustration.
Each day begins with a full battery, yet a system stuck in high alert spends much of its energy producing stress hormones and maintaining protective tension. This constant effort is exhausting.

Willpower alone rarely shifts these patterns. Many clients discover that what felt like “laziness” was actually energy absorbed by survival responses.

In Transforming Touch Therapy, clients remain fully clothed, lying on a therapy table or sitting in a chair while the practitioner uses a gentle seven-point protocol focused on the kidneys, adrenal glands, and brain stem — key gateways to the nervous system. A steady, regulated presence supports the system in softening at its own pace. As space returns to the nervous system, healing naturally becomes possible, with room for both body and story to be held.

 

Who Benefits from Transforming Touch®?

Transforming Touch® can be especially helpful for those who have experienced developmental trauma, experiences that disrupt the natural process of growth and connection in early life. These may include:

  • Intergenerational trauma
  • Disconnection around conception or pregnancy
  • Repeated fear or threat (real or imagined)
  • A fast birth, birth trauma, or C-section
  • Separation from the mother after birth
  • Early medical interventions
  • Abuse or neglect
  • Adoption or abandonment
  • Anxious, inconsistent, or disorganized parenting
  • Community or cultural trauma

 

These experiences often leave lasting imprints on the nervous system. Through ongoing sessions, Transforming Touch® helps regulate and restore the body’s natural rhythm. Clients often notice improved resilience, greater capacity for connection, and an increased ability to manage everyday stress.

 

My work as a Gestalt Psychotherapist begins with presence, slowing down enough to really listen to what is here. I believe that healing happens when we stop trying to be different and begin to meet ourselves just as we are. This is at the heart of the Paradoxical Theory of Change, that genuine transformation comes not from effort or striving, but from awareness and acceptance.

In our work together, I invite curiosity about your embodied experience, what you notice, what feels alive, and what may be held just beneath the surface. Therapy, for me, is a shared exploration rather than something to be fixed. It’s about creating a space where you can be met with warmth and understanding, where what is present can gently unfold in its own time.

I am deeply influenced by embodied approaches within Gestalt therapy, especially the work of Ruella Frank and James Kepner. The body carries so much of our history and wisdom, often speaking before words can. By paying attention to movement, breath, and felt sense, we can begin to hear what the body already knows and bring that into awareness with compassion.

My approach is relational and grounded in authenticity. I bring my own felt sense and embodied awareness into our meetings, staying with what is unfolding between us. For me, therapy is not about changing who we are, but about coming home, to ourselves, to what’s true, and to what’s quietly waiting to be known.

Supervision For Therapists

I am an Accredited Gestalt Psychotherapist & Supervisor (IAHIP) with an M.Sc. Gestalt Psychotherapy | Certificate in Clinical Supervision.

I provide Gestalt supervision for therapists at all stages, from trainees finding their voice to experienced practitioners deepening their practice.

I offer a warm, steady presence for trainees who are beginning to shape their own way of working as therapists. Supervision with me is collaborative and supportive, a place to explore your growing practice, reflect on challenges, and celebrate what’s going well.

My background spans more than 20 years body-based work. Massage Therapy, Reiki, Transforming Touch®, alongside my experience as a Gestalt psychotherapist and supervisor. These paths have given me a deep respect for embodied awareness, creativity, and compassionate dialogue, which I bring to supervision.

I aim to create a safe, encouraging space where you can develop confidence, clinical sensitivity, and a grounded sense of yourself as a practitioner. Together we pay attention to what emerges in the supervisory relationship as a resource for your learning and professional growth.

.