Better therapeutic relationships — stronger alliance, deeper trust — reliably predict better therapy outcomes.
Individual psychotherapy – attachment & trauma informed
Safe attachment is the ground of our feeling secure. Many of us needed to find other ways of establishing our safety in the world – resulting in patterns that can be limiting, hurtful or damaging for us in adult life. The absence of ‘good enough’ loving care leaves hurts of omission that can show up in many ways in the here and now. Subtle avoidance patterns, obsessional thoughts, addictions, or a need to be over controlled with ourselves and others can all appear as ways that our neuro-evolutionary architecture has been highjacked by our need to survive.
The hurts of commission, of trauma, may leave us with less integration of these natural states of the body/mind and/or a confusion about mysterious symptoms. We can also find ourselves shut down, numbing out or detached from our bodies. Learning to calm the whole system alongside someone we trust allows our innate healing intelligence to open. Psychotherapy can support the release of these patterns into their full emotional and somatic expression: learning how to relate to all parts of ourselves with genuine friendliness, curiosity & understanding restores the natural integrative balance of the emotional and thinking mind.
We find our ground again, we can find both energy and peace.
Individual and Group Supervision
Building trust in our shared humanity is the core condition of our supportive and challenging supervision.
Sonja has completed the introduction, psychotherapeutic and group supervision modules for accreditation in the seven eyed module of supervision developed by Peter Hawkins and Aisling McMahon.
Supervision is a shared adventure of curiosity and compassion. Finding the depth and synchronicity of observation and insight that emerges when the relationship finds the solidity of safety is a joy.
As an integrative psychotherapist, Sonja is open to entering a supervisory relationship with other therapists from the UKCP Humanities college.
Sonja will be completing the training at CSTD Bath this year in order to join the UKCP list of approved psychotherapy Supervisors. Supervision prior to this point will be charged at half rate – £50 (concessions apply)
