You may understand something intellectually and still find yourself existing in much the same way.

Certain patterns return.

You may find yourself experiencing the same things, despite knowing a great deal about yourself. Perhaps something repeats in relationship, or the body responds before you can understand why.

Therapy can offer a place to stay with these experiences and attend to what is already happening beneath what we already know.

Welcome, I’m Elyse.

I offer clinical sessions online from Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, working with body, experience and language.

My approach is informed by contemporary somatic practice and by my ongoing clinical formation in Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Understanding can be important, but it does not always alter how something is experienced.

In sessions we attend to what emerges through speech, sensation, emotion and the body - including what may be difficult to put into words.

Rather than working towards a prescribed state or quick solution, the work is an opportunity to become more closely acquainted with your experience and the patterns that shape your life.

This work isn’t about becoming a different version of yourself.

It is about making space to encounter what is already there; what repeats, what you desire, what you cannot quite say, and what your body can register before it becomes conscious.

Sometimes something changes simply through finding a different way of relating to it.

You might come to this work if you:

• find yourself caught in patterns you understand but cannot seem to change.

• experience anxiety, overwhelm, or a sense of disconnection.

• notice recurring difficulties in relationships.

• are moving through a significant change or loss.

• feel that something in your experience is difficult to put into words.

• want to understand yourself beyond the explanations that you already have,

Sessions are available online: