Being a therapist can feel a little bit like being in a play at times. You can catch yourself giving your best performance to appear regulated, seemingly unaffected by what’s going on in the outside world or indeed within your insides. I take extra care in also trying to provide an environment where my clients can feel safe and held. A sort of magical sanctuary for the contemporary hyperaroused nervous systems of my community where nerves can have a chance to (temporarily) do

This is a post informed by PolyVagal theory (as developed by Dr. Stephen Porges) and based on Deb Dana’s concept of somatic glimmers. My journey into the world of noticing, collecting and cultivating glimmers is a fairly recent one. Glimmers, however, happen spontaneously for everyone, whether you notice them or not. A glimmer - as defined by Deb Dana - are:

It could be said that we all have an ideal amount of touch we’d like to receive at any given moment in time, and an actual amount that we ac

As the month of June approached, I sent out my June newsletter in the last day of May. Two days later, I felt terribly guilty when my...

A perspective on the use of touch in therapeutic settings. When is it ok to touch?

I'm pretty confident that you know exactly what I'm talking about and if you don't, well, perhaps you've taken all the rights steps in...

Some psychotherapists and psychologists will tell you that self-disclosure in a therapeutic relationship is a big ‘No-No’. This has often...

Us massage therapists have regularly come across this problem. To educate or not to educate someone who just used the word ‘masseur’ (or...

For a while I have intended to articulate my thoughts on the cultural appropriation of indigenous knowledge, practices and beliefs in the...