About me

As a somatic therapist I apply the Integrative Bodywork and Movement Therapy (IBMT) approach and methods in my work.

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The IBMT approach is based on and integrates principles from three core areas of practice and theory: The Discipline of Authentic Movement; Body-Mind Centering® and Somatic Psychology. Read more at https://ibmt.co.uk/about/

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I apply a bottom-up process and invite verbal dialogue, movement, associations, imagery, sounding and intuitive touch (bodywork) as necessary, in attunement with your specific needs and following your pace and progress.

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My goal in working with you is to create a compassionate and safe space for you to explore your personal path  towards embodiment, healing and wholeness. I trust in the inner wisdom of the body and it's ability to hold, protect and nurture us in ways it knows best. Through entering a respectful and compassionate dialogue with our living body, our soma, we can find that, what skillfully guides us if we listen.

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Clients approach me when looking for personal growth and ways to find inner resources, more balanced and wholesome coping mechanisms, transformation and re-patterning. I often work with clients facing hardships in stress management, looking into inner family work (subpersonalities), dealing with  attachment struggles, boundaries' and other  relationship issues (family, partnerships, including LGBTQ+, ENM/polyam and other non-normative relationship structures), experiencing psychosomatic symptoms, autoimmune processes, having concerns in regards to sexuality, struggles of life abroad, in multicultural environments and etc.

I live in Southern Portugal and work both online and in person. Apart from working with individual clients, I facilitate Authentic Movement and Somatic Movement exploration groups.

I have multicultural experience, and am a mother of four children, two of whom are already adults.

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