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The work has to fit the person, rather than requiring the person to fit the method.

Individualized 90-minute sessions for women navigating relationships, identity, self-worth, boundaries, emotional overwhelm, nervous system patterns, and significant life transitions.

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I work with clients in 90-minute sessions because it gives us enough time to work without feeling hurried.

A session does not always begin where it ends. You might arrive wanting to talk about something that happened during the week and discover, as we stay with it, that it touches an older belief or familiar response. An emotion may emerge that changes our understanding of what is happening. We may notice something in the body, or find that different parts of you feel very differently about the situation.

Having more time allows us to follow what is relevant without pushing for depth or stopping just as we reach something important. It also leaves room to settle and integrate before we finish.

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YOU CAN BEGIN WITH YOUR EXPERIENCE AS IT IS.

Women come to me with relationship difficulties, questions of self-worth and identity, boundaries, emotional overwhelm, old experiences that continue to affect the present, work and life transitions, or patterns they are tired of repeating.

The reason for reaching out may be very clear. Or it may be harder to put into words. You can be functioning well while privately feeling exhausted, disconnected from yourself, or unsure why something that appears manageable from the outside feels so difficult internally.

Making sense of it is part of the work.

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RELATIONSHIPS + BOUNDARIES

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SELF-WORTH + IDENTITY

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PEOPLE-PLEASING + OVER-FUNCTIONING

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EMOTIONS + NERVOUS SYSTEM PATTERNS

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WORK + LIFE TRANSITIONS

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MIDLIFE + CHANGING ROLES

Recognition Points

HOW SESSIONS UNFOLD

Our sessions are conversational, but conversation is not necessarily where they remain.

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I pay attention to what is being said and to what seems to be happening underneath it. I may invite you to slow down and notice what is happening internally. We might stay with a bodily sensation, an emotional response, a part, an image, or something else that emerges naturally from the conversation.

I have a broad range of approaches available to me, but I do not begin with an agenda about which one we should use.

The work has to fit the person, rather than requiring the person to fit the method.

DEPTH + EVERYDAY LIFE

Not everything we explore needs to lead back to childhood.

Your history matters because it has shaped you, but you are also living a life now.

A conflict in the present can bring an older pattern into view. Difficulty setting a boundary might reveal something about how you learned to maintain connection. A reaction that feels disproportionate may make more sense once we understand what it resembles.

But the useful work can also be much closer to the surface. You may need to think through a decision, prepare for a difficult conversation, understand why something affected you so strongly, or settle enough to know what you actually think.

I DON’T SEE THE PRACTICAL AND THE DEEPER WORK AS SEPARATE.

The ordinary circumstances of our lives are often where our inner patterns become visible. They are also where change eventually has to be lived.

“Working with Allison has been one of the most profound experiences of my life. I cannot begin to explain how extraordinary it is to feel like my true self again.

My early years and relationships were very traumatic and whilst I have had some good therapy and therapists over the years, I hadn’t quite managed to unpack and unpick everything and hadn’t addressed my nervous system at all. I have been able to open up to Allison straight away and get deep into some really important work.

I really like the way Allison explains things on a very scientific/research backed basis but is also deeply intuitive. We have had some fun moments along with the serious stuff!”

TANIA
Passionate about localisation and building community, UK

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BECOMING MORE FAMILIAR WITH YOURSELF

As our work develops, we begin to know your internal landscape together.

We become familiar with the responses that tend to appear under pressure and the beliefs they may carry. You develop more language for your emotional experience and greater awareness of what happens in your body. Parts that initially seemed irrational or frustrating often become more understandable once we know something about what they are trying to protect.

My training in Internal Family Systems and nervous system work informs this process, alongside the other ways of understanding emotion and embodied experience that I have gathered over the years.

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THE INTENTION IS NOT TO MAKE YOU DEPENDENT UPON ME

Quite the opposite.

I want you to become increasingly able to recognize your own internal signals and make sense of them. To notice when something needs your attention, when an old response has been activated, and when you need more information before making a decision.

I sometimes call this developing your inner GPS. It is less about always knowing the answer than about becoming more familiar with the person trying to find it.

Self-trust tends to grow alongside it. Not because you will always know exactly what to do, but because listening to yourself becomes more familiar, and abandoning your own perspective whenever life becomes complicated becomes less so.

“I am incredibly grateful for the support and guidance I received from Allison during the most challenging times of my life. Losing both of my parents and my son was an unimaginable ordeal and it left me feeling lost and broken.

Allison provided me with the tools, compassion and understanding that I needed to survive and heal. Her support was a lifeline when I needed it most. She helped me navigate the overwhelming emotions, grief and sadness.

With her help, I began to find my way back to a place of stability and hope.”

PAULINA
Entrepreneur, UK

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A NOTE ABOUT FIT

My practice is primarily for adult women, and much of my work naturally centres on experiences that become particularly visible in midlife: relationships, identity, self-worth, changing bodies, work, family dynamics, and the reassessment of roles we may have inhabited for years.

That does not mean you need to be at a particular stage of life or identify with every aspect of what I write about.

What matters is whether you recognize something in the way I understand this work.

The relationship between practitioner and client matters to me. You should be able to ask questions, disagree with me, tell me when something does not resonate, and have some humour available when life deserves it.

I BRING MY TRAINING, EXPERIENCE, ATTENTION + PERSPECTIVE, YOU BRING THE AUTHORITY OF YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE.

We work from there.

THE VALUE OF CONTINUITY

My practice is designed around ongoing work.

A single conversation can occasionally be enormously useful, but that is not the model I have chosen for my private practice. I value what becomes possible when we have a shared history and do not have to begin again each time we meet.

Over time, I come to know the people and relationships that matter to you, the experiences that have shaped you, and the ways different parts of you tend to respond. We develop a common language for things that might otherwise take considerable time to explain.

Progress Does Not Always Announce Itself.

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A situation that once consumed several days now occupies an afternoon.

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You notice a familiar reaction while it is happening rather than afterwards.

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A boundary that once produced enormous guilt becomes easier to hold.

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You hear an old belief and recognize it without automatically organizing your life around it.

These shifts may be quieter than the dramatic breakthroughs we tend to associate with personal work.

They can be just as consequential.

“My work with Allison over the last six years has been some of the most meaningful work in my life. Through illuminating metaphors, anecdotes, and witty turns of phrase, Allison and I have developed a vocabulary for clearly expressing what I am feeling and the meaning that I’m making of interactions/events/interpersonal dynamics.

Moreover, our work with how I’m feeling in my body or with my various emotional parts helps me make sense of my own complexities.

Because of our sessions over the years, I find that I am able to take things less personally at work and in relationships. I can now balance genuine emotional availability for those who matter to me with compassionate (but solid) boundaries.

Most importantly, as a person who has a lot of feelings, I have a much more comfortable relationship with those feelings.”

K
Academic, USA

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PRIVATE SESSIONS

90 MINUTES
ONLINE
$180 USD

I work primarily with clients on a regular, ongoing basis. The rhythm of our sessions can be discussed together, taking into account what brings you to the work and what is realistic for your life.

If you are considering working with me, we begin with a complimentary introductory call. It gives us a chance to meet, talk about what has brought you here, answer your questions, and get a sense of whether we are well suited to working together.

There is no need to know which approach you need or to prepare your story beforehand.

You Can Simply Tell Me What Is Happening.

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