This page brings together articles and reflections from my practice.
Some focus directly on therapy, trauma, the nervous system, and relationship patterns. Others step back into a wider frame, exploring the human and ethical questions that also shape how I think about suffering, care, and psychological work.
Some reflections sit slightly beyond the immediate therapy frame, but still shape how I think about suffering, care, trauma, human vulnerability, and our place in the wider world.
This longer piece explores selfhood, ageing, illness, neurodivergence, and ecological belonging.
DBR and mindfulness both involve careful attention, but they use attention differently. Mindfulness listens to what emerges in present-moment experience. DBR works earlier in the nervous system sequence, close to where orienting and shock first arise.
Read MoreMany people come to therapy with good insight into why they struggle, yet still feel hijacked by anxiety, shutdown, shame, or relational patterns. This article explores why trauma is not only cognitive, and why meaningful change may require attention to relationship, affect, the body, and the nervous system as well as reflection.
Read MoreRelational psychotherapist, ILF neurofeedback practitioner, and clinical supervisor.
Psychotherapy and supervision: in person and online.
ILF neurofeedback: in person only, in Reading, Berkshire.
+44 (0)7803 049039 · paolo@presentingpast.co.uk
UKCP-registered psychotherapist · BACP-registered member · CTA-P
