Your invitation to be held.
Welcome, I am Liza. I am an integrative therapist based between East London and Devon, England.
My sessions are warm, loving, deeply rooted in body wisdom — supportive for trauma healing, challenging life transitions, personal growth and deepening your relationship with yourself and others.
Our work will continuously invite you into presence, gently expanding your nervous system's capacity to meet what's here. Together we may uncover the unconscious beliefs that may be running your life, and create space for healing the experiences that disconnected you from yourself, with an intention to support a life that truly reflects and nourishes who you are.
I have been learning to lead my own life in the ways I now support others for the past 8 years — through nervous system and somatic healing, therapy and trauma work, movement, yoga, and plant medicine journeys.
Along this path I have studied potent therapeutic and trauma healing modalities — Compassionate Inquiry® with Gabor Maté, Somatic Experiencing® by Peter Levine, Gestalt therapy and foundations of Internal Family Systems. I integrate them into individually tailored sessions to help you tenderly meet yourself and all your parts, as well as life, as they are, with respect and open curiosity.
I invite you to book a free 30 min discovery call to explore whether working together would be supportive to you in this moment.
About the sessions
My sessions are warm, loving, and respectful of the body and heart's wisdom. They can support you in finding inner clarity, healing the imprints of trauma, working with triggers, addictions, processing grief and emotional pain, navigating relationship and family challenges, or simply difficult moments in life. I also offer MDMA-assisted therapy and plant medicine / psychedelic integration.
I welcome to my practice people on the autism spectrum — whether professionally diagnosed or simply relating to autistic traits. Sessions can be adjusted to be autism-affirming.
The name of my practice, Inner Light Space, reflects the nature of this work — creating a safer space to shine light on your unique human experience, and welcoming it with compassion, curiosity and respect.
My approach
I am a certified practitioner and intern of Compassionate Inquiry® — an embodied psychotherapy approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté, whose teachings deeply resonate with me — and draw on foundations of Somatic Experiencing® and Gestalt psychotherapy. And yet, our work together is not about using specific modalities. It is about creating a space of deep presence to meet you where you are, and to support turning challenging life experiences into wisdom, growth, and authentic self-expression.
All sessions are tailored to you, and my intention is for you to feel my support and presence alongside your journey. In-between session check ins and questions are welcomed. Your unique self-expression, needs and authenticity are celebrated.
Together we may explore unconscious beliefs and how they shape your reality, learn to listen to your needs, set healthy boundaries, and integrate fragmented parts of yourself into a felt sense of wholeness. At the heart of our work is trust in your inner wisdom and natural capacity to heal, whilst being supported with therapeutic tools and intuitive guidance.
My journeys with most clients are about consistent, long-term, embodied healing work — the kind that develops the capacity to feel, to stay present with ourselves, others and life in all its beauty and complexity. There is a profound tenderness in what becomes possible when we stop rejecting parts of ourselves and life, and open to the fullness of human experience.
You can expect support, presence, and attunement. I will be a loving and clear mirror, and will gently challenge you when needed. Together, we will co-create a space where you can explore all that you are.
“The journey has taken me very deep into places that I didn't know existed, and was a painful and difficult process of moving through feelings, emotions, memories. Liza's gentle yet firm support, and intuitive, insightful guidance was what made it all possible and I'm immensely grateful for the work we have done together.” K.R.
“Each session has unpacked and released a lot of intense emotions which were stored in my body, which I did not even know were there, yet keeping me captive in reoccurring self sabotaging patterns and overall misery. Liza’s gentle and caring approach and capable guidance has been incredibly reassuring and deeply healing for my inner child and my nervous system overall. I have a new life, free from fears and limiting beliefs and a new general sense of true belonging and serenity. I cannot recommend her enough!” D.C.
“I have never been held with so much love. I am so incredibly grateful.” S.C.