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ETHICS, BOUNDARIES & INTEGRITY

My work moves at the meeting point of depth psychology, bodywork, and devotion. The foundation beneath it all is ethical practice, the living art of holding another with respect, care, and clarity.

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I trained and qualified as a psychotherapist at Roehampton University and practised within the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) ethical framework for many years. Although my work has since evolved beyond traditional psychotherapy, those principles remain alive in everything I offer: presence, confidentiality, consent, and respect for the sacred boundaries of another being.

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I believe that safety is not the absence of risk, but the presence of awareness. Each encounter is shaped through mutual agreement and attunement. We begin by naming intentions and limits; throughout the session you remain free to speak, to pause, to shift pace, or to end. The body’s wisdom leads, and I listen.

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Touch, when part of the work, is ceremonial and guided by explicit consent. Every gesture serves coherence, and congruence. Pleasure, grief, stillness, and release are all welcome as expressions of aliveness, yet always within a container of integrity.

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I receive regular supervision and engage in ongoing personal and professional development. This ensures that my work remains accountable, ethical, and transparent.

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These are the pillars I stand upon: Presence. Consent. Confidentiality. Integrity. Containment. Reflection. Sovereignty.

 

From here, we meet as two whole beings in mutual respect, entering the field of healing through trust and clear ground.

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1. Presence

Presence is the willingness to meet you in what is real right now, emotion, breath, sensation, memory.

It means I remain attuned, listening through the body and the subtle field, tracking energy, tone, and nervous system rhythm.

Presence looks like slowness, eye contact, and steady breath.
It looks like letting silence do some of the work.
It is the soil from which all ethical practice grows.

 

2. Consent

Consent is the heartbeat of my work.
It is ongoing, embodied, and mutual.
Before any physical or energetic touch occurs, we name what is welcome and what is not.

We speak the language of yes, np, pause, and enough.

Consent looks like checking in before a shift in proximity.
It looks like asking, “Does this feel right for you?”
It looks like your ability to change your mind at any time, and have that honoured immediately, with warmth and respect.

 

3. Confidentiality

Everything shared within a session, words, memories, sensations, emotions, remains private and held in confidence.
I do not share session content, names, or stories outside the space without permission,

except under specific and legally required circumstances where someone’s safety is at serious risk.

Confidentiality means you can speak freely, without concern that your story will travel elsewhere.
It means your process belongs to you.
It also means I hold your details with care, secure storage of notes, respect for digital privacy, and discretion in all correspondence.

 

4. Integrity

Integrity is the alignment of intention, energy, and action.
It means I do what I say, and I remain transparent about the scope of my work.
I do not offer diagnosis or medical treatment; I offer relational, somatic, and ceremonial work that supports awareness, integration, and coherence.

Integrity looks like clarity in communication, fair exchange, honest boundaries around time, payment, and touch.
It looks like staying within the limits of my competence and referring onward when something falls outside my field.

 

5. Containment

Containment is the art of creating safety for what arises.
It means the emotional, erotic, or spiritual material that surfaces in a session is held, not acted out.
It is the invisible structure that allows deep states of openness to occur without collapse or confusion.

It looks like having a clear beginning, middle, and end, so the body trusts the return to ordinary time.

 

6. Reflection

I receive regular professional supervision with mentors experienced in both psychotherapy and somatic/ceremonial work.
Supervision allows me to remain accountable, to process what moves through the field, and to ensure that my personal story never blurs into yours.
I also engage in ongoing inner practice so that my capacity to hold others keeps expanding in clarity and grace.

Reflection looks like humility, knowing this work is alive and always refining me.

 

7. Sovereignty

Sovereignty is the recognition that you are the authority of your own body and experience.
My role is to witness, guide, and support your unfolding, never to control or define it.
You are free to question, to decline, to guide the direction of our work.

Sovereignty looks like mutual respect: two humans meeting as equals in the sacred field of awareness.
It is the ground of true trust.​

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This work is founded on devotion, transparency, and respect. Every session, whether through council, cuddle, or ceremony is held within clear boundaries that honour the autonomy, safety, and dignity of all involved.  Please note that I do not receive touch, except in cuddle therapy where mutual hugs can be reciprocated. 

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While the spaces I hold can feel deeply personal, they remain professional in their intention and structure. I do not enter romantic or sexual relationships with clients. 

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Many who enter these spaces become part of my wider circle over time, and natural friendship or community may unfold after our work has completed. When this occurs, it is always in alignment with mutual clarity, respect, and right timing.

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My commitment is to serve truth through presence, to ensure that every encounter rests inside safety, consent, and coherence, so that love can move freely where it is meant to.


For those who have walked every path of becoming, and now long to come home.
 

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