Holistic Counselling + Psychotherapy
Working at the awe-inspiring junction where modern psychology merges with experiential + transcendent aspects of the human experience.
Hello.
My name’s Elyse.
I work with people to assist in the engagement and integration of both their inner and outer worlds.
Exploring emotions, thoughts, behavioural patterns, and somatic based wisdom to move beyond mere symptom management to truly thriving.
Finding the right therapeutic match is essential, so it’s important to me that you are paired with someone who truly meets your needs. Please feel free to schedule a brief consultation so we can determine who is best equipped to support you.
Area of Focus
Body Symptoms
Whether you experience chronic illness, have an injury, or somatic body work is your preferred path for self-inquiry, the body can be used as an entry point to explore and unfold psychosomatic information for the benefit of your awareness, your health, and general way of living.
Additional Areas of Special Interest
Life transitions and adjustment challenges
Grief and loss
Healing from trauma
Anxiety & depression
Body symptoms (chronic and acute)
Women’s and men’s issues
Relationship/Interpersonal challenges (incl. breakups, conflict support, attachment difficulties, sexual issues)
Soul & spirituality matters
Self discovery & actualisation (incl. biographical work, life path exploration, intrapersonal work such as self-esteem)
Philosophy
I bring together modern psychology with expansive, experiential, and transcendent aspects of the human experience. I help people cultivate a greater awareness of both themselves and their challenges by exploring thoughts, feelings, behavioural patterns, and somatic based wisdom. From this place of increased clarity and connection to self, more conscious, inner aligned, and empowered decisions can be made, resulting in fulfilling and purpose driven experiences.
While I have training and experience in many therapeutic modalities and strategies, there is no one single approach for all, hence why I adopt a responsive, fluid, and yet robust method of working with what is present in the moment for each person. An offering that is a uniquely personalised, deeply healing, and potent therapeutic approach.
Whilst the direction of work is client lead, following their cues and accompanying them in their particular journey, when working with specific challenges, my guiding principal when viewing healing and growth is that the medicine lies within the difficulty itself. Rather than trying to avoid or push the problems away, we can gently and collaboratively turn towards the ‘obstacle’ to see what is there trying to be expressed. In working with what is actually happening, be it body symptoms, relationship conflicts, dreams, reoccurring themes, or events around you, the key to better managing it, working through it, and integrating the experience, is found within the struggle itself.
This is a very radical concept for western thinking, and indeed opposite to the mainstream allopathic approach where treatment can be based on masking or trying to stop symptoms, or bringing about the opposite effect of the difficulty. However, when anxiety or depressive like symptoms are expanded upon for example, it can be discovered that these characteristics are there for a purpose and with a conscious ‘taking up’ of this energy, deep and nourishing healing and transformation can occur.
Just like in nature around us, there is a higher intelligence far more complex than our human brain can begin to contemplate, so instead of trying to cognitively ‘out smart’ the process of our inner essence, we work with it instead. This way of approaching obstacles, and life in general, offers a perspective that life is in constant communication with us, with challenges being ‘on the way’ rather than in the way, providing opportunities for growth and self discovery.
By working with ourselves and others with this radically compassionate, curious, and multifaceted view, living a life to your fullest growth and potential is on offer whilst harnessing life’s inevitable ups and downs. Allowing the space to listen to and unfold what is here for you, be it during your own inner work or when working with another, is an empowering life tool. Feeling equipped and resourced enough to be able to sit with, and venture through the fullness of life in an aligned and embodied way, really is the epitome of true freedom.
