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Hi, I'm Sara, here at Safe Passage Psychotherapy an Integrative (mixed model) approach is offered tailored to your specific needs.

In response to your needs a range of models can be facilitated including, Trauma-Informed, Person-Centred, Psychodynamic, Existential and Gestalt approaches.

 In specialising in trauma and anxiety, I offer a body-focussed treatment approach prioritizing regulation and safety. This creates a stable foundation for the deeper process work to be grounded in. Through this 'safe passage' approach clients are guided throughout the turbulence of the anxiety experience into the  integration and release within the healing journey. 

At Safe Passage Psychotherapy I offer the space for you to turn up as you are, however you feel, where you will be welcomed with warmth, acceptance and a non-judgmental attitude. The space is calm and warmly lit. A hot drink and blanket are provided to help you relax and be comfortable. This is time just for you.

From the outset the therapy experience is designed to support you safely through your healing journey. When overwhelmed by intolerable anxiety our brains often motivate us to avoid our feelings. These feelings are intense can can include; wooshing, plummeting, tingling, tightening, numbing, sweating, constricting, and hyperventilating. In an attempt to control our anxiety we can find ourselves using a range of cognitive and behavioural defence mechanisms such as; overthinking, focussing on narrative, disconnecting, distracting, projecting, compulsivity and self-medicating.

In recognizing the role of the nervous system in our survival, we can learning to see the body as an ally in our healing journey. The internal processes that overwhelm us when we are anxious can build to intolerable levels. Through the facilitation of body-focussed exercises, we work in a safely paced, trauma informed way to build up regulation capacity and stabilization.

Treatment is tailored specifically to help you build tolerance to the discomfort of your anxiety as it it happening. Through the reassurance of empathic support and the therapeutic relationship, the trapped threat of your anxiety can be safely discharged and released in a controlled environment. 

In processing unhealed trauma and anxiety in this way a client can come to appreciated the support security the boundary of the body offers and experience a relief from debilitating symptoms and experience.

The initial meeting will be a free 20 minute consultation for you to meet me, see the therspy room, and gauge if you feel I am the right therapist for you. This is a no obligation service.