I’m Chrissie, an integrative therapist with over 20 years of experience working with clients across a wide range of life difficulties — from anxiety, depression, and trauma to relationship struggles, burnout, and the deeper questions of who we are and how we want to live.

 

My work draws on some of the most effective and innovative approaches available today — Internal Family Systems (IFS), Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), Conscious Connected Breathwork, and somatic therapy — woven together with over two decades of personal spiritual practice. This combination means I can work with you at whatever level feels right: through conversation, through the body, through the breath, or through deeper states of awareness.

 

My background is rooted in person-centred therapy, deepened by six years as a mental health worker in the NHS and extensive training in IFS, DBR, and body-based approaches. I have been influenced by the work of leading figures in somatic and trauma-informed therapy, including Gabor Maté, Richard Schwartz and Bessel van der Kolk, and I continue to develop my practice through ongoing supervision and study.

 

My personal spiritual path — which has taken me through Insight Meditation, Tibetan Buddhism, and ten years as a student of A.H. Almaas and the Ridhwan School — runs deeply through the way I work. It gives me a lived understanding of what IFS calls Self, and brings a genuine transpersonal depth to the therapy I offer.

 

I offer individual therapy, breathwork classes, and retreats, and I work with people navigating everything from everyday stress and complex trauma to non-ordinary states of consciousness and the integration of profound or transformative experiences.

 

If any of this resonates, please do get in touch to arrange a half price initial session.

 

Chrissie is an Integrative and Transpersonal therapist, a qualified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist, Deep Brain Reorienting Therapist (DBR) and Breathwork Facilitator. Sessions are held at a beautiful space just outside Buckfastleigh, Devon or online. She can be contacted on 07840 069075 or creativetherapysouthdevon@gmail.com