Process your past to
Liberate your future
I am Sonja, a UKCP registered senior student of Core Process Psychotherapy.
I specialise in supporting men & women to process the earliest relational traumas that may lie beneath present-moment suffering.
Core Process Psychotherapy (CPP) is an approach that begins with a recognition of our inherent health and of how oftentimes that health becomes obscured by the ways we have learned to navigate relational complexity throughout life.
What may have begun as an intelligent response to early trauma or suffering can harden, over time, into distorted beliefs and patterns that lead us back into pain as adults. For many, life becomes shaped and narrowed by those beliefs and the body carries our compromises as physical legacy.
CPP invites a return to inherent health through embodied wisdom practices, Western psychotherapy, and the contemplative traditions of Buddhism. My work is centred on offering an atmosphere of safety, warmth, and acceptance — a space in which you can explore what is alive for you in the present moment: mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
In our shared presence, the transformation of suffering into freedom becomes possible.
Working With Me
I bring 25 years’ experience working with mind & body to my offerings; experience as a yoga teacher, a holistic bodyworker, a dancer of Qoya, meditator and psychotherapist. My intention is to be with you as you to allow the wisdom of your essential truth to emerge, reclaiming rejected parts of yourself and creating space for the expression of your true, whole self. This is the path of authenticity and it unfolds in many ways. I offer practices I have come to trust for their kind, compassionate and transformative capacity.
FOR MEN & WOMEN
Core Process Psychotherapy offers a compassionate, relational container for deep personal processing at a pace and depth that moves in alignment with our co-arising capacity.
FOR WOMEN ONLY
OMR Meditation Community offers daily online contemplative practice in a quiet circle of women to start each day by gently returning home to your self.
Qoya Inspired Movement offers the ground to move the truth of your emotional intelligence through your body in a dance of feminine embodied presence.
Pathways home to yourself
Women’s Meditation Practice
Monday to Thursday 6.30am UK time
Live & Online
OMR is a foundation daily contemplative practice for ensuring that your day starts rooted in your true self.
OMR Meditation Space
Psychotherapy offers a safe non-judgemental space to be supported as you move through difficulty, wether it be emotional, mental, spiritual or physical pain.
Suffering, when tended to with care, holds within it the seeds of potential for freedom and expansion. The intention of therapy is to hold a compassionate relational container for the gentle unravelling of that within which obscures our inherent health and vitality.
With deep reverence for your prenatal and childhood experience you will be gently encouraged to acknowledge the past, recognising the impact of your childhood meaning-making through story and belief patterns.
Once acknowledged, the stories, beliefs and unprocessed emotions of our past can release their grip allowing us the freedom to see the present moment with clarity, honesty and integrity.
Psychotherapy
Qoya Inspired Movement is based on the idea that through movement we remember our essence is wise, wild and free.
Qoya is a sensation-led dance practice for Women that invites movement that feels truly nourishing.
What would it be like to trust your body and meet yourself here through dance and community? Let’s find out together.
Qoya Inspired Movement
Learn more
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People often seek therapy because of the pain of their suffering which is natural to want to avoid. We develop intelligent strategies to manage and by-pass difficult feelings which can become blind spots as our survival strategies colour our lens and shape our responses.
Too often, the very suffering we hope to avoid becomes the inevitable outcome of our coping mechanisms.
The invitation in CPP is to gently bring awareness to what is hidden in the safety of a relationship that holds compassionate and emotional maturity which can be hard to find in everyday life.
Here, in the relational therapeutic space, we have space to unfold and find access to a doorway back home to our true self.
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Psychotherapy is a call to emotional maturity which takes time and commitment.
By inquiring into the origin of your suffering story you may allow a more honest understanding of the ways you isolate, defend, sabotage or stay closed to life.
My approach is holistic and embodied with an intention to support you to notice the ways that clinging tightly to stories or fiercely rejecting reality contributes towards your own suffering.
Over time, what begins as a deepening into personal, private, compassionate self awareness opens up into an increased capacity for relationship and compassionate appreciation for others.
Our journey begins with a free 30 minute call online where I can learn about your needs and intention.
If we agree to work together we will begin with a commitment to 6 weeks either online or in person.
From there, each relationship is unique. For some people our work together is a short journey and for others it can become a long term guiding anchor for consistent remembering of inherent wholeness.
Your journey depends upon your needs, your capacity and your intention.
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We begin with a free 30 minute online session to get a feel for your needs and intention with therapy, also allowing you to get a feel for working with me.
Your initial commitment will be 6 × 60 minute sessions, which will repeat weekly at the same time / same day over a 6 week period.
After the initial 6 weeks, if we choose to continue our journey together, your commitment will be weekly sessions repeating at the same time / same day each week.
Daytime sessions can be held in person or online, evening sessions are available online.
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Online sessions are currrently hosted on zoom. You will receive a zoom link from me via email.
In person sessions are hosted at my practice space in Poole, Dorset which is within my home. I have a dog so this may be something to consider when choosing your path.
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£65/hr (limited concessionary spaces)
Contact Sonja
If you would like a free 30 minute session together online to see if we are a good fit, please email me your interest and I’ll get back to you at my earliest convenience.