Energy Psychotherapy in London and Online Across the UK
Talking therapies are useful but sometimes talking alone is not enough to shift our deepest traumas and limiting beliefs.
Energy psychotherapy (EP) is a holistic approach combining energy psychology and energy medicine. Energy therapists work with the body’s subtle energy system to address issues on a number of levels.
Interventions include: Tapping, Holding memory centres on the body; and Working with intention, for example by reciting words like a mantra.
I offer in-person energy psychotherapy sessions in London, as well as online sessions for clients across the UK.
What is Energy Psychotherapy?
Energy psychotherapy applies energy psychology and energy medicine techniques within a recognised psychotherapeutic frame. It is itself therapy, not a standalone technique, and it follows the same ethical approach as any other psychotherapy.
The difference? Once we reach the heart of the matter, rather than talking around a difficulty for weeks, we work directly with the body’s subtle energy system to release the charge held there. Clients often describe a physical shift during the session itself.
What does a session look like?
A session starts with you telling me what is troubling you. I listen, respond, and follow the emotional charge as it moves.
When it becomes clear we have reached the core issue, I will suggest an intervention. Depending on what fits, that might be:
tapping on acupressure points, with you tapping on yourself while I tap on myself
holding memory centres on the body, again mirrored between us
repeating intentional phrases that I offer, structured by the focus of a mantra
We stay with the charge until the difficulty eases and you feel the shift. Nothing happens without your agreement, and you stay in control of the pace throughout.
Online sessions follow exactly the same structure. Because the exercises are ones you carry out on your own body, they translate to Zoom without losing anything.
What energy psychotherapy can help with
Clients come to me for support with:
trauma, including attachment trauma, PTSD and Complex PTSD
the emotional impact of acute and chronic illness
non-verbal and pre-verbal experiences that talking cannot easily reach
anxiety and long-standing limiting beliefs
grief, bereavement and major life change
inherited and trans-generational patterns
These are areas conventional talking therapy often struggles to access, which is why many people arrive here having tried something else first.
The methods I work with
I hold a Certificate in Energy Psychotherapy: Energy Psychology Techniques for Psychotherapists and Other Mental Health Professionals (2014), a generic training that gives me an overview of the whole field rather than a single method.
In practice I draw most on:
- Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT), the modality I have trained in most deeply and in which I am a certified practitioner
- Tapping, in several different forms
- Radomski’s Ask and Receive
- Psychoanalytic Energy Psychotherapy (PEP)
- Invitation to Healing (ITH), an approach I developed myself
Some clients come for one specific method. Others prefer that I choose from the range as the work unfolds. I integrate Energy Psychotherapy with other modalities including Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and relational approaches.
Working with me in London or anywhere in the UK
In person sessions are held in central London. Online sessions by Zoom are available UK wide, which means you are not limited to therapists within travelling distance of home.
That matters for this work in particular. Energy psychotherapy is a small field, and experienced practitioners are thinly spread outside the major cities. Working online removes that as an obstacle.
Arrange a free consultation
If you would like to talk it over first, I offer a free 10 minute telephone consultation with no obligation. It is a chance to describe what is going on and ask whether this approach is likely to suit you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is energy psychotherapy safe?
Yes. Tapping and holding body centres can feel peculiar the first time. The therapeutic frame is what creates the safety. All my work is done within a recognisable therapeutic context. I am a member of the BACP and abide by its code of ethics.
Before we go near difficult material, I help you build resources to hold you steady. For example this might include helping you create an internalised safe space, or a healing circle you can return to.
How is it different from ordinary talking therapy?
Much of it will feel familiar. We make connections between past and present and we talk about where you want to get to. What differs is the focus and the practicalities. I will help you reach the heart of the matter rather than circling around it. The embodied exercises offer you a way to finally release stuck trauma.
Do you offer EMDR?
EMDR is a type of brain bi-lateral stimulation. I can offer you other types of brain bi-lateral stimulation. Whilst I am not an EMDR practitioner, I do offer similar types of trauma therapies. I am a certified Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT) practitioner. AIT is similar to EMDR. I also work with clients who have tried EMDR and found it to be be retraumatising. In my experience AIT can be gentler and also more effective than EMDR.
How does AIT compare with EMDR?
They have a good deal in common. Both are embodied trauma therapies used inside a psychotherapeutic framework, both start from the understanding that trauma is held in the body, both help you digest unprocessed memories and emotions through a physical activity, and both are useful with flashbacks, body memories and nightmares.
The mechanism differs. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation through eye movement. AIT works with memory centres in the body where trauma is stored. EMDR focuses on a specific memory or set of memories. In AIT we formulate a sentence that captures the focus of the work, then release its charge by moving your hands down the memory centres.
EMDR is well established for single incident trauma and is also used within longer term therapy. AIT can be used for single incidents and for complex trauma. Some clients come to me having done useful EMDR work and wanting to build on it. Others come having found EMDR difficult and wanting a different route.
Do you offer Emtional Freedom Techniques (EFT)?
I do not describe myself as an EFT practitioner, because EFT is a specific branded approach and I respect other practitioners’ intellectual property. EFT is one form of tapping among many, and I am skilled in a range of tapping methods. It is a bit like being asked whether I can use a Hoover when my response is: I can use many kinds of vacuum cleaner!
Does it work as well online as in person?
Yes. I find all the techniques transfer well from in-person to online. Any breathing exercise or embodied interventions are ones you carry out yourself , so the process works well over video. I work with clients across the UK via Zoom.
Do I need to believe in energy for this to work?
No. Scepticism is welcome and common. I am not working with a particular ideology. I invite you to try the exercises and see what happens. What matters is your willingness to try the exercises and notice what happens.
Where are you based?
In person sessions are held in Central London, at a location on Westminster Bridge Road, SE1. This is close to Lambeth North tube station and Waterloo station. Online sessions are available nationally and internationally. My insurance coves me to work with people inside and outside the UK.