Naomi Stafford

I currently only have capacity for online clients. I have a couple spaces available in the day on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. Please contact me for more information. 

I offer a confidential, non-judgemental and respectful space for you to talk about you and feel what you’re feeling. A large part of our work will be building a space where those two things feel possible. Safety is a felt experience and together we can explore what this means for you. It may be useful for us to explore events in your history and relationships in your childhood to better understand what you are feeling and experiencing in your present.

My humanistic integrative training means I draw from various therapeutic schools of thought and work to a relational model. In practice, what this means is that paramount to our work is creating a relationship which feels safe. I believe the foundations to this are built through the offering of empathy and unconditional positive regard with honesty and integrity.

I am trauma-informed and continue my training in how trauma shows up in our minds and body and how to work with it. Drawing from modalities such as Gestalt, Transactional Analysis and Polyvagal Theory, the therapeutic space can become an environment from which we can begin a journey towards a better understanding of the ways you think, feel and behave, as well as, perhaps, the way you haven’t been able to think, feel or do.

For me, therapy is  about harnessing enough self-awareness that we are able to liberate ourselves from thoughts and feelings that feel beyond our conscious choice. It is also about being able to let go of that which we cannot or decide we do not wish to change. It is about giving space for thoughts and feelings we have not had the freedom to feel or name. It is also about being met with compassion so that we can learn to meet our whole selves with that same compassion.

Weekly sessions of 50minutes

I offer online (Zoom) or in-person sessions in East Dulwich.

Our sessions can be open-ended or split more formerly into blocks (e.g. 20 sessions) where we review near the end of each block if you wish to extend or work towards an ending. We will discuss what you would prefer in our intro call. 

I offer a free intro call where we can explore in brief what you expect from therapy and what brings you here. This will take about 15-20minutes. 

Our first couple of sessions will explore this in more detail.