Just as within, recognising the relational complexity of our individual experiences we widen our support and holding to include our relationships with intimate partner(s), parents, siblings, adopted child, grandchild, foster parent, friend, support community, neighbour, blood or spiritual kin. Whatever your unique configuration of family, or partnerships your curiosity in contact is welcomed.
Couples and families seek therapy for many reasons - and often have many questions, you can find more out here to see if these videos resonate with what you are looking for, and your situation.
Because of the many different identities each of us and those in our circles can hold - many at once - and because of the way our laws, societal classifications and cultural hierarchies reward favourably and penalise oppressivley different identities (within the UK this is dominant within a white western europatriarchal context) Emmalou holds commitment to creating accountably tended, intersectionlly affirmative and positive spaces, in collaboration with each and every member of your group/family. This means that when we meet together we do so in an uneven way, each holding different identities that may have been afforded elevation and priviledge or targeted or marginalised - often both - within and across a society and culture(s). With this in mind Emmalou acknowledges her own mixture of identities and tries to support inclusive access to people across lived experiences and intersectional identities spanning; multi-heritage | faith | spiritual | secular, range of ability and disability, age, racialisation, class, sexuality, gender and neuro expansiveness. Please get in touch with any questions.
How do I work?
Emmalou offers somatically attuned, held space that places embodied experience at the core of work together, this means really paying attention to the body signals, sensations, emotions, movements and energy that is felt at different moments when we are talking and exploring different themes in the therapy space together - this supports the goals of therapy and long lasting new relationship with your own body, how to connect and understand it and co-regulate with others in relationships. Because the body can't lie it's a strong resource and ally to support our work together, often because it can give us signals as to whether we are trying to be or do something that doesn't quite fit what we would choose if things were different. It is a portal to knowing more deeply what might not be able to be said or even know yet.
Emmalou combines a wide array of ways of working together to support everyones unique form of expression, sometimes talking and sensing the body is enough, other times drawing, movement, voice (humming, singing), rhythm, collage, constellations might be offered and encouraged. Not all intelligence lies in the 'brain' as our western experiences of education may have lead us to believe, and not all communication is verbal therefore Emmalou offers exploration across different channels of experiencing and ways of knowing in sessions.
Choice and agency are always checked within sessions because consent can change moment by moment - this is an important and central part of collaboration. Finding consensual balance and pace can support connection that allows relationships to be re-connected and negotiate around shared vales and hopes for generative change. Utilising and drawing upon creative, expressive and embodied lineages, Emmalou is working within traditions and models which are |
Whilst holding specific experience of working with families orienting experiences of developmental differences, autism, longterm health diagnosis and psychosocial adjustment within NHS clinical settings, Emmalou has wide ranging knowledge and awareness of lived intersectional contexts impacting families within private clinical experience, supporting families across myriad contexts and issues.
With an ever present diligence in seeking and undertaking personal and professional training, development and supervision to enrich dignity, accountability and cultural attunement, alongside depth embodied praxis of integration, Emmalou has a commitment to equitable service provision and progression - placing integrity of care and shared knowledge production, mutual learning, sense making, self sovereignty and rolling consent at the core of their practice.
Couples and families seek therapy for many reasons - and often have many questions, you can find more out here to see if these videos resonate with what you are looking for, and your situation.
Because of the many different identities each of us and those in our circles can hold - many at once - and because of the way our laws, societal classifications and cultural hierarchies reward favourably and penalise oppressivley different identities (within the UK this is dominant within a white western europatriarchal context) Emmalou holds commitment to creating accountably tended, intersectionlly affirmative and positive spaces, in collaboration with each and every member of your group/family. This means that when we meet together we do so in an uneven way, each holding different identities that may have been afforded elevation and priviledge or targeted or marginalised - often both - within and across a society and culture(s). With this in mind Emmalou acknowledges her own mixture of identities and tries to support inclusive access to people across lived experiences and intersectional identities spanning; multi-heritage | faith | spiritual | secular, range of ability and disability, age, racialisation, class, sexuality, gender and neuro expansiveness. Please get in touch with any questions.
How do I work?
Emmalou offers somatically attuned, held space that places embodied experience at the core of work together, this means really paying attention to the body signals, sensations, emotions, movements and energy that is felt at different moments when we are talking and exploring different themes in the therapy space together - this supports the goals of therapy and long lasting new relationship with your own body, how to connect and understand it and co-regulate with others in relationships. Because the body can't lie it's a strong resource and ally to support our work together, often because it can give us signals as to whether we are trying to be or do something that doesn't quite fit what we would choose if things were different. It is a portal to knowing more deeply what might not be able to be said or even know yet.
Emmalou combines a wide array of ways of working together to support everyones unique form of expression, sometimes talking and sensing the body is enough, other times drawing, movement, voice (humming, singing), rhythm, collage, constellations might be offered and encouraged. Not all intelligence lies in the 'brain' as our western experiences of education may have lead us to believe, and not all communication is verbal therefore Emmalou offers exploration across different channels of experiencing and ways of knowing in sessions.
Choice and agency are always checked within sessions because consent can change moment by moment - this is an important and central part of collaboration. Finding consensual balance and pace can support connection that allows relationships to be re-connected and negotiate around shared vales and hopes for generative change. Utilising and drawing upon creative, expressive and embodied lineages, Emmalou is working within traditions and models which are |
- polyvagal informed
- somatically focussed
- pre-verbal and developmental attachment trauma based
- collaborative, co-constructive
- creative, expressive and experiential
- cultural humility focussed
- reciprocally relational
- GSRD positive
Whilst holding specific experience of working with families orienting experiences of developmental differences, autism, longterm health diagnosis and psychosocial adjustment within NHS clinical settings, Emmalou has wide ranging knowledge and awareness of lived intersectional contexts impacting families within private clinical experience, supporting families across myriad contexts and issues.
With an ever present diligence in seeking and undertaking personal and professional training, development and supervision to enrich dignity, accountability and cultural attunement, alongside depth embodied praxis of integration, Emmalou has a commitment to equitable service provision and progression - placing integrity of care and shared knowledge production, mutual learning, sense making, self sovereignty and rolling consent at the core of their practice.
All access needs across in-person, online and hybrid working considered and welcomed.
