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I work in person in Hackney Downs on Tuesdays and Fridays and have some flexibility for online work during weekdays. Please get in-touch for my current availability.

Love lies at the heart of being human; we yearn for connection, acceptance, and belonging. Our relationships—with ourselves, others, and the world around us—shape us. Our histories, beliefs, and society can bring both nourishment and challenge to our capacity to love and be loved.

I’m Lisa, a warm and empathic integrative therapist, dedicated to helping you untangle your life’s complexities and blocks to love. My approach considers you as whole—mind, body, and soul. I see people as individuals with personal agency, yet not separate from wider society and its power structures.

I strive to support people to reflect upon their experiences, gain deeper self-awareness, and find ways to move forward in alignment with what feels right for them. I approach with sensitivity to intersectionality, cultural diversity, and individual beliefs and values; I aim to create an accessible, inclusive space, honouring all identities. I am not the expert of you, but I will try to help you become the expert of yourself.

I bring my experience as a therapist in the NHS and community mental health setting, and also provide professional wellbeing support to people at music and arts festivals. I care about social justice and normalising conversations around wellbeing. I draw upon my theoretical knowledge, continuing learning, my embodied and lived experience, including that of being a client, my passion for movement and artistic expression, and a longstanding career in the creative industry.

I am registered with the Íø±¬ÃÅ and am committed to ethical practice.

In each 50-minute session, you lead the way, you set the pace. I bring my presence as I tailor my approach to your individual needs and the parts of you and your life you want to gain greater understanding, make change, or be heard. We may talk or sit quietly; I may reflect, question, share my theoretical insights, introduce tools or holistic techniques to aid you, or get creative in how we explore or release, perhaps with drawing, visualisation, or movement.

We may arrive at your life story, relationships, culture, identity, and ancestral influences, or focus on your present sensations, emotions, and the interaction between us in the room. We may shift between present awareness and unconscious processes, your thoughts, behaviours, and patterns in these. We may hold in focus your hopes and fears for the future, or explore the tensions and contradictions between these.

My integrative approach draws upon theories including relational, person-centred, gestalt, psychodynamic, transpersonal, attachment, transactional analysis, body psychotherapy, internal family systems, and is neurodiversity and trauma-informed. My experiences of somatics and movement practices, work in the creative industry, and of being a client inform my work. Reach out if you’d like to discuss how we might work together.

I offer an initial, free 20-minute phone or online conversation. This is an opportunity where we can meet, ask questions and find out more about what you are hoping for in terms of your therapy and whether I might be a suitable therapist for you.