Therapy That Meets You Exactly Where You Are
Ami supports people who have often spent years feeling misunderstood, overlooked or expected to fit into systems that were never designed with them in mind.
Whether you're navigating grief, loss, ADHD, autism, neurodivergence, chronic illness, identity, sensory overwhelm or significant life transitions, therapy offers a space where you don't need to mask, explain or become someone different.
Their approach is rooted in curiosity, compassion and the belief that healing can begin when we create space to listen to and work with the body, rather than pushing against what it is communicating.
Authenticity Is at the Heart of Healing
Ami believes therapy should never ask you to become someone you're not. Instead, sessions focus on creating enough safety and resource for you to reconnect with your own body, emotions and experiences in a way that feels empowering rather than overwhelming.
Drawing on lived experience alongside professional training, Ami offers a therapeutic relationship grounded in acceptance, collaboration and genuine understanding.
Areas of Expertise
Who I Work With
Ami works with people experiencing grief and loss, autistic adults, people with ADHD and other forms of neurodivergence, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and individuals living with chronic illness, autoimmune conditions, fibromyalgia, persistent fatigue and sensory overwhelm. Their work is particularly suited to people looking for a compassionate, body-led approach that creates space for experiences that may be difficult to express through words alone.
Supporting You Without Asking You to Mask
Many people spend years adapting themselves to meet other people's expectations, often at the expense of their own wellbeing. Therapy provides an opportunity to explore what you are carrying without constant masking or pressure to change who you are. Through body-led exploration and resourcing, Ami supports you in developing a deeper understanding of your needs, experiences and ways of moving through the world that feel more authentic and sustainable.
Grief can also sit beneath many of the experiences we bring to therapy. It may relate to bereavement, changes in health or ability, relationships, identity, unmet needs, lost possibilities or transitions in life. Ami's work creates space for grief to be acknowledged, felt and tended to rather than something that needs to be fixed or moved through on a particular timeline.
What Therapy with Ami Looks Like
Sessions with Ami go beyond talking and insight alone. Their neurodivergent affirming, trauma informed approach brings together talking therapy, somatic therapy and movement based practices, creating space to explore what is happening not only in your thoughts, but within your body and nervous system too.
Rather than following a rigid therapeutic model, Ami works relationally and collaboratively, adapting sessions to your communication style, sensory needs and the way you experience and process the world. Together, you may explore emotions, body sensations, breath, movement and nervous system responses, alongside the experiences and patterns shaping your life.
This can be particularly supportive if you have tried more traditional or less relational forms of therapy, understand your patterns intellectually, but still feel stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected or unable to create lasting change.
The work moves at your pace. Over time, Ami supports you to develop greater nervous system regulation, self understanding and capacity for emotion, while building a deeper and more compassionate relationship with yourself and your body.
Qualifications and Professional Background
Intensive Training in Trauma-Informed Somatic Therapy, International School of Holistic Healing, completed November 2024
650 hours of training with Authentic Flow Tribe in yoga, Somatic Ecstatic Dance and somatic practice informed by Body-Mind Centering
Seven-hour CPD training in therapeutic preparation for and integration of psychedelic experiences, International School of Holistic Healing
Further training and professional development
Nine-month programme in the somatic and relational self with Kai Cheng Thom and Karine Bell
Mythic Body programme with Josh Schrei
Monthly professional-development sessions with Decolonizing Therapy
Somatic breath classes with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, completed autumn 2025
Apprenticing to Grief with Sophy Banks and Grief Tending, completed April 2026
Regular individual and group supervision
Member of the Accredited Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists — ACCPH
Your First Session
60 MIN SEssion
Availability
Monday - Friday
Your first appointment is an opportunity to understand your story, your goals and how your nervous system has adapted over time. Together you'll create a therapeutic plan that feels safe, realistic and entirely centred around your needs. There is no pressure to share more than you're comfortable with, and sessions always progress at a pace that feels right for you.
"It has been such a journey to experience somatic therapy, and with Ami's support and insight I feel so much more connected to myself, others and the earth. The space is helping me to understand the things I truly want and need and helping me to take the steps to reach them. I am grateful to them for the transformative space we've held together and look forward to what will come in the future."
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"During our sessions I have been learning "how to be a body" and since I heard them describe somatic therapy in this way I have reflected on how we all need this in our lives and how severed we are from what we feel."
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"I came to Ami at a very difficult time in my life, in the midst of grief. I was desperate for a language to be able to describe and understand what I was experiencing and with time I could reflect on how normal it was. What I came to realise, with Ami's guidance, was the different kinds of grief I was living through and how this was showing up in my body."
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