I’m Michael. I work online with people in a lot of different countries, and my work falls into three parts: therapy, clinical supervision, and training.

Some people arrive in crisis. Others come during a transition, or because something that worked for years has quietly stopped working, or simply because they want to understand themselves better. All of those are good reasons to start.

Therapy

Therapy with me is a place to work through what’s difficult, understand what keeps repeating, and get back in contact with parts of yourself you’ve had to set aside.

Much of what I work with is what most people come to therapy for: anxiety, low mood, stress and burnout, grief, shame, anger, difficulties in relationships, or the sense that things aren’t working without quite being able to say why.

Alongside that, there are three areas I’ve trained in specifically:

• Trauma and EMDR: single incidents, long-running relational trauma, PTSD, and what stays in the body long after the danger has passed.

• Sexuality, gender and relationships: LGBTQIA+ identity, coming out at any age, shame and desire, gender questioning, kink and BDSM, non-monogamy.

• Psychedelic preparation and integration: the work before an experience and, more importantly, the work afterwards.

Sexuality, Gender & Relationships

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EMDR Therapy and Trauma

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Clinical supervision

Supervision is where you get to think aloud about your work with someone who takes the clinical detail and your own experience of it equally seriously.

I hold a supervision qualification specifically – an MA in Professional Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy Supervision – rather than supervising on the strength of clinical experience alone. I work with trainees on placement, newly qualified practitioners, and experienced clinicians who are looking at deepening their reflection on their practice. I see practitioners individually and in small groups, online.

There’s room here for the parts of the job that are hard to bring: the client you dread, the session that went somewhere you didn’t intend, what you’re stuck on and embarrassed to still be stuck on.

Training and workshops

Education has been part of my work for many years, including tutoring and lecturing on Master’s programmes in London and Malta, and running workshops for practitioners, for organisations, and for people who want to do this kind of work on their own life.

Topics tend to sit around trauma, sexuality and gender, psychological wellbeing at work, and psychedelic-assisted therapy.

How I work

I’m integrative, which in practice means I don’t use one approach for every situation. I’ve trained in several and I use what fits the person in front of me.

What runs through all of it is the body. I pay close attention to what’s happening physically – breath, tension, posture, the things you notice a second before you find words for them – while also working with thoughts and emotions. Insight on its own tends not to shift much. Something usually has to change in how you’re actually holding yourself.

I’m trauma-informed, which means I go at the pace your nervous system can take, rather than the pace the story wants to move at.

A short introduction

The practical side

• Sessions are online, and run for 50 minutes
• I work primarily in English, and can also work with Italian speakers
• The rhythm of sessions is usually weekly or fortnightly
• Every working relationship starts with a free introductory call

My book

Living Better with Yourself:
A Practical Guide to Embodied Growth

I am the author of a self-development journaling book that uses the body as the container for change, with 180 exercises and over 50 guided audio recordings.

Let’s have a conversation

The simplest way to find out whether we’d work well together is to talk for fifteen minutes. No obligation either way.

Or send me a message if you’d rather write first.