Jenine Lamberton

I am a trauma therapist who is passionate, engaging and genuinely interested in people's well-being and growth.

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After ten years of practising mental health counselling and facilitating mother-infant attachment groups, I noticed that sometimes attending short-term weekly groups that involved singing and playing with babies, followed by journaling thoughts into pictures and metaphors, was achieving quicker and more impactful improvements in psychological well-being than attending long term individual counselling. While I had firsthand experience seeing people overcome challenges and improve their relationships and life satisfaction, I noticed that the gains that some clients were experiencing from talk therapy would only be superficial and temporary. I didn't want our work together to become another failed attempt to achieve the lasting change they sought and deserved.

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Feeling disillusioned by the limitations of talk therapy and noticing the benefits of movement, play and artistic creativity, I developed an interest in a branch of subconscious styles of therapy called somatic therapies. In these, clients are guided to notice physical sensations experienced in the body as they talk or think about different ideas. Modern society has such a strong interest in acquiring knowledge that many of us have lost awareness of the interactions between our brains and bodies. Our ability to understand ourselves increases by paying attention to these physical reactions. 

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Learning to work with somatic therapies was the key to achieving my goal of supporting people to move through blocks to healing. I no longer view my role as trying to change people; I've come to understand how to connect people to the wisdom inside themselves. I work on creating the safe and supportive conditions necessary for people to resolve their issues and reach a potential they have longed for but not believed possible.