Both of us work from a relational and experiential foundation, which means that regardless of the specific approach being used in a given moment, the therapeutic relationship and the quality of what is experienced in the room are always central to the work. The modalities we draw from are tools in service of that orientation, not protocols applied independently of the person in front of us.

Isaac draws from a wide range of approaches developed specifically for trauma and relational healing, including EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Transformation, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), alongside broader influences from Gestalt psychotherapy, attachment theory, and person-centred practice. What these approaches share is a commitment to working with experience directly rather than simply talking about it.

Jordan draws from relational, attachment-based, and person-centred approaches, and these form the foundation of how she works with people—attending closely to the quality of connection, safety, and attunement in the therapeutic relationship as the primary vehicle for change. She also draws from experiential traditions, bringing somatic and body-based awareness into her practice for clients who are drawn to working at that level. This dimension of her work is shaped by her decades as a dancer and her training as a Dance Movement Therapist.

If you are curious whether a specific approach you have heard about is something we work with, please feel free to ask—we are happy to talk through how we work before you commit to anything.

The core idea of experiential therapy is that lasting change requires more than a new understanding — it requires a new experience. And the most powerful site for that new experience is the therapeutic relationship itself.

This can take many forms. Sometimes it is the experience of bringing a core struggle into the room and finding that the therapist responds with genuine curiosity and care rather than the judgment, dismissal, or anxiety the client has come to expect — the lived realisation that some relationships can be different from the ones that shaped the problem. Sometimes it is the experience of feeling a familiar and long-avoided emotion in the safety of the session, and being guided to meet it with compassion rather than the shame or fear that usually accompanies it — discovering that the feeling itself is survivable, and that it does not have to be managed alone. Sometimes it is the experience of saying something that has never been said aloud before, and finding that it is received rather than rejected. Sometimes it is noticing, in real time, a pattern that has always felt automatic, and finding that something else is possible.

What these moments share is that they do not happen through explanation. They happen in the room, in the relationship, in the body — and because they are lived rather than learned, they tend to reach places that insight alone cannot always touch. Both of us work from this understanding, though our specific approaches differ. You can learn more on our individual pages.

Where insight-based approaches focus primarily on helping you understand yourself better, experiential approaches focus on what actually happens in the therapy room — in your body, your emotions, and the relationship between you and your therapist — because the most persistent struggles people carry tend to be stored not in their understanding but in their nervous systems, their relational patterns, and their physical experience, and these are places that insight alone cannot always reach. The goal is not just to think differently but to feel differently, at the level where the difficulty actually lives.

Both of us work experientially, though our specific approaches differ. You can learn more on our individual pages.

Somatic therapy begins from the recognition that many of the most significant experiences people carry are stored not just in memory but in the body itself—in patterns of tension, in a nervous system that stays alert long after a situation has passed, in physical responses that arise before the thinking mind has registered anything. These are not metaphors; they are the actual traces of experiences that could not fully complete, responses that activated and were never allowed to finish, and in many cases they are literally stored in the peripheral nervous system.

Rather than treating the body as something to be managed or pushed through, somatic therapy treats it as a participant in the healing process, a source of information and a place where change can genuinely happen. When the work reaches this level, it can access things that talk alone cannot always reach. Jordan's practice is particularly grounded in somatic approaches, informed by her training as a Dance Movement Therapist and her belief that the body is already a site of meaning and intelligence for most people, whether or not they have ever framed it that way.

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is an evidence-based approach originally developed for trauma and one of the most well-researched therapeutic methods available for post-traumatic stress, and understanding why it works requires understanding something about what happens to difficult experiences when they cannot be properly processed.

Under ordinary circumstances, the brain integrates experience as it occurs—filing memories as past events and allowing their emotional charge to settle over time. When something is overwhelming enough, this integration process gets interrupted, and the memory becomes stored in a way that keeps it feeling present and activating rather than past and resolved, so that certain situations, sensations, or interactions continue to trigger a response that belongs to something that happened long ago. EMDR works by helping the brain reprocess these stuck memories through a structured approach that combines focused attention on the difficult experience with bilateral stimulation, most commonly guided eye movements, and for many people the result is that memories which once felt overwhelming become significantly less distressing.

Isaac is trained in EMDR and typically uses it as part of a broader relational and experiential approach to trauma treatment rather than as a standalone protocol.

Learn more about EMDR here.

Taking a holistic approach to therapy means attending to the whole person rather than treating a symptom as though it exists independently from everything else. In practice this means we are interested in your mind, your body, your emotions, your behaviour, and your relationships, and in how all of these dimensions influence each other. Anxiety, for example, is not only a ruminating thought pattern; it lives in the body, shapes behaviour, and affects relationships. Depression is not only a mood; it has physical, relational, and existential dimensions. Attending to only one layer of a person's experience, while sometimes useful, tends to miss the fuller picture of what is happening and what needs to shift.

The opportunity in this approach is that there are many possible entry points for change, and we are always looking for these openings with our clients rather than applying the same approach to every person. Therapy that attends to the whole person can most effectively go where that particular person needs it to go.

Yes, we are trauma informed in the sense that we are constantly taking into consideration the impacts of trauma across all that we do as practitioners and as a clinic.

Additionally, beyond being trauma informed, we are actually trauma practitioners—we treat trauma and PTSD directly.

Both of us work from the understanding that trauma is not a life sentence and that what happened to you, however significant, is not the final word on who you are or what is possible for you. The traces that difficult experiences leave—in the nervous system, in relational patterns, in the body—are real, and they can run deep, but they are also the residue of something that happened under particular conditions, and given the right conditions they can heal. We have both seen this happen in our work, often with people who had stopped believing it was possible.

Isaac works with a wide range of trauma presentations, from the impact of single overwhelming events to the more complex and pervasive effects of prolonged adverse experience. Jordan's approach to trauma is grounded in somatic and body-based work, supporting clients whose experience lives as much in the body as in the mind.