Sue has a background in health care as a registered nurse and as a complementary therapy practitioner.
Becoming a psychotherapist after training at the Karuna Institute in 2002
Sue has also trained in trauma work with Babette Rothschild and Somatic Experiencing with Peter Levine.

Psychotherapy is a process of self discovery, of exploring where limiting behaviours, beliefs and emotional conflicts come from. Whilst enabling new ways of expressing who and how we are, more freely and less limited by these restrictions. Enabling the possibility of a more authentic and skilful response to everyday life. We can achieve greater confidence and freedom to choose how we wish to be by bringing an open awareness into the present moment.

The psychospiritual Psychotherapy offered by Sue works with the body, mind and spirit. Combining western psychotherapeutic approaches and eastern philosophies of mindfulness to create a way of working in the present. Bringing compassion and awareness to our suffering which can help to transform and release the holding patterns that we have been living with.

Sue works from the premise that, underneath our layers and patterning’s we are all essentially whole and healthy. This health can become obscured by events and traumas in our lives that have caused us to react with defensive patterns. These patterns can become habitual and continue long after the event or trauma has passed.  Limiting behaviours and beliefs can obscure our health and our ability to see the way forward, which can stop us from reaching our full potential.

We are all conditioned by past experiences, both good and bad. By exploring these patterns and conditionings in how they are expressed in our lives and the present moment, psychotherapy brings a deeper awareness and an opportunity to transform this life conditioning and become our true selves.

For many of us, making the first steps towards seeking professional help can be a hard thing to do. There are times when we all experience a need for support and help with difficulties. We feel the need for the kind of safe supportive relationship and space that psychotherapy can provide. Some issues can be easier to bring to therapy than to share with friends or family. Talking to someone who is not involved yet has your best interests at heart and is trained to listen came be deeply transformative.

Psychotherapy provides a confidential professional relationship which offers you a safe, warm and welcoming space to explore what is happening for you. It is an opportunity to explore your life, life experiences, relationships and reach a deeper understanding of yourself and what’s important for you and what you want from life.

This way of working is based on an understanding that we all have an inherent movement towards health at our core. This is always there underneath, but difficulties and traumas in our lives may have led us to develop defensive strategies as part of our personality. These strategies can become habitual and continue long after the original painful circumstances or traumas have passed. As a result we may now see the world and respond in ways that do not help us, and stop us from reaching our full potential. The intention of Core Process Psychotherapy is to help us make contact with this core health, so that we can respond more authentically and skilfully to whatever we meet in our lives.

Allowing our experience to be just as it is, even when it is difficult or painful, can support healing. We can learn to become more aware of our moment-to-moment experience by getting in touch, not only with our thoughts and feelings, but also with subtler feeling tones and how they are held in our bodies.