“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Jung
Transforming Trauma: Integrating Philosophy and Practice
Sonja’s current professional development reflects a return to her philosophical roots for these clients curious in exploring the depths of their psyche.
Training in relational psychotherapy provides a container for transformation and ease of suffering. Sonja’s meditation practice began in 2006, engaging in Mahasi Vipassana since 2016 offers further “ethical training of the heart”. This daily grounding in awareness and the brahmaviharas (friendliness, compassion, joy, equanimity) supports her non judgemental and non directive companionship of clients interested in self inquiry.
“Imagination, not reason, is the chief faculty of the soul.” Patrick Harpur
She is currently expanding into new territories through two key trainings:
- Supervision Training with CSTD Bath (qualification 2026), an outward turn to support other practitioners.
- The Grof Legacy Training, a three-year global programme preparing professionals to work ethically with holotropic states, from breathwork to psychedelic-assisted therapy. This addresses the deeper questions of mind and healing.
‘The ego is not the true self but a construct that we identify with. It is constantly changing and can be transcended.’ Stanislav Grof
Membership of With Reality In Mind, a forum for analytical idealism (articulated by Bernardo Kastrup), grounds this inquiry in a coherent alternative to scientific materialism—one that discards neither science nor humility. It posits consciousness as fundamental, offering a metaphysical foundation that unites Sonja’s work in trauma, meditation, and holotropic exploration.
With Reality In Mind
This additional synthesis of Sonja’s work is for those who sense that symptom relief alone is not enough. It is intended for individuals who are intellectually curious, emotionally open, and willing to engage in a careful, relational exploration of experience itself. The approach integrates contemporary trauma practice, sustained contemplative discipline, and philosophical inquiry, offering a space that is both psychologically rigorous and ethically grounded. Sessions are not driven by protocols or quick outcomes, but by attentive presence, depth, and respect for the intelligence of the client’s own process.
For those seeking therapy as a form of serious inner work—rather than a service to be consumed—this practice offers a quiet, uncompromising commitment to depth, integrity, and transformation over time. The aim is to skilfully companion emergence.