Therapy

  • Are you struggling to cope with life’s challenges?
  • Are you feeling overwhelmed by emotional distress?
  • Are you seeking help in managing your levels of stress and uncertainty?

Holistic Psychotherapy

As a general psychotherapist and hypnotherapist, I help you access the power of your own inner resources (which many of us don’t realize we have). My blend of psychotherapy and spirituality brings a holistic approach to therapeutic healing, optimizing various skills and tools to affect positive change.

Seeking psychotherapy is a sign of strength, not weakness. Therapy can help us identify thoughts, emotions and behaviors that have limited our ability to embrace life to the fullest. The transformation of those mental and emotional patterns can empower us to respond to the complexities of life more effectively. Having someone who listens and supports us offers connection when we are feeling disconnected.

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Often the starting point is working towards self-acceptance and awareness with the goal being greater understanding, clarity, and resolution. Rather than focus on the problems, we emphasize the solutions and the pathways to get there. Breaking free of limiting beliefs leads to inner peace, creativity, and empowerment. This enhances our self-esteem and confidence, helping us to meet challenges more successfully.

As a catalyst for your healthy development, I am dedicated to assisting you in learning new skills to manage life’s complexities that help you feel in control of your life and put you back in the driver’s seat.

Specialist Therapies

Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis is a wonderful and valuable tool that’s highly effective in accelerating the healing process and eliminating habits that interfere with life. In a deeply relaxed state, we connect with the vastness of the unconscious mind to explore and release the patterns that create issues for us. Our conscious mind is only the tip of the iceberg, and below the surface the unconscious mind holds a record of everything that has ever happened to us and influences how we operate in the world. Hypnotherapy is the use of trance, or hypnosis, for accessing this information for healing in a clinical setting.

Hypnosis is a focused awareness that promotes a profound state of relaxation in the client. This contact with the creative, deeper parts of the mind then becomes available for healing. Trance as part of the healing process is a way of removing barriers that interfere with our ability to thrive. As we learn to resolve conflicts, problems, and habits through trance work, this leads to an expanded awareness and a state of receptivity that increases wellbeing. Hypnosis can transform a problem into a solution which supports our access to a higher state of consciousness.

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Past Life Therapy

Our soul is on a journey through time; it is the eternal part of our Self that incarnates to learn lessons required for its evolution. Past life therapy is a tool that allows us to understand this learning journey. Past life regression allows us to recall lost pieces of our soul, heal deep wounds affecting our energy bodies, and express the wonder of knowing the soul’s passage in and out of lives.

It could be unusual physical sensations or strong emotions that have no connection to the experiences we’ve had in our current life, and a past life memory is now resurfacing to be resolved and cleared. A trauma that was experienced in a previous lifetime has left its imprint, or samskara, on the soul which incarnated to reconcile this issue. Whether it is a deep-seated phobia, a pain or restriction in the body, or a recurring attitude that causes difficulty, past life therapy can release and heal those problems by working through the trauma that left scars on the soul.

Past life regression is a powerful process and not a dalliance for curious minds. I believe regression is a serious experience designed to heal and not entertain.

How I Practice Regression Therapy

My style of practicing past life regression is to have an exploratory meeting with the client before any regression work begins, to gain insight into the background and history that will be utilized when we move forward to the actual regression process. Vital preparation work is done in this preliminary session, usually an hour long, and past life regression will begin with the following session. All regression work is done on a two-hour basis.

What People are Saying

“I was received into a relaxed and friendly environment, with Diane proving to be an extremely easy ‘listener‘, and one I could talk to freely; indeed I would look forward to our following meetings. To date, some ten years following, I am more content and comfortable than I was. Past Life regression is not to be taken lightly, good spiritual psychotherapists should be sourced, and in doing so, you can do little better than accessing Diane’s services.”
JEM

Perinatal Psychotherapy

As both a perinatal health consultant and psychotherapist, I also specialize in the psychological healing of events and difficulties related to pregnancy and birth as well as the postpartum period, including healing birth trauma and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

What People are Saying

“Speaking to Diane about the traumatic birth of my daughter was life-changing.  She provided me with a safe space to talk about what had happened, to understand my reactions and most importantly for me, gave me practical advice and avenues to explore every aspect of my physical and emotional recovery.  She followed up our sessions with useful emails and was always available if I needed to talk about something in particular.  Her help was, without doubt, the most important in my recovery from the ptsd symptoms and pnd I was experiencing.  Thank you so so much.”  
Virtual client, E. Catteau

Somatic Attachment Therapy & Somatic Stress Release

I also specialize in Somatic Attachment Therapy and Somatic Stress Release, which reconnects us with a felt sense of our full embodied experience and awareness of our relationships and how we handle stress. These therapies help us feel safe in our bodies, in a safe therapeutic context. Attachment, the development of deep emotional bonds between child and caregivers, influences how we connect and relate to others throughout our lives. Working with patterns established in early life, and the causes of stress in our current experience, we use a body-focused approach to reframe what happened, and we integrate positive relationship dynamics for now and the future. We also develop healthy strategies for reducing stress while attuning to our physical experience and perceptions in ways that restore balance and harmony.

How I work

My approach to practicing psychotherapy is to co-create the quickest solution, providing emotional guidance that can effectively help you access your resources efficiently in the shortest time necessary. It is a joy to watch my clients move forward in life with the confidence, strength and clarity that comes from working through life’s emotional difficulties to the point of integration and resolution.

Whether you live locally or at a distance, help is just an email away. There are no longer geographical restrictions, and the coronavirus pandemic in 2020/2021 normalized virtual psychotherapy using video platforms like Zoom. I welcome international clients who are open to releasing any barriers to thriving in their lives. As a mobile therapist for local clients, I can come to your home or office at your convenience for face-to-face therapy, or see you in my clinical space.

How can I help?

If this is what you would like from your psychotherapy experience, then Contact me and we will begin the healing process together that harnesses the power of your inner resources and creates the life you want. Packages are available that provide ongoing support at the level you choose.