About me:

A few facts about me so you can get a sense of who I am and if we could work well together:

  • I’m a queer (bi/pan-sexual), cis-gender woman, with some fluidity to my gender identify.

  • I have lived experience of late diagnosis ADHD and as an unpaid carer for my sister who has a severe disability.

  • I’m expressive and enjoy wearing colourful clothing.

  • I love being a therapist and care deeply about this work. I am often moved by the courage my clients bring to therapy.

  • I swim in the sea daily and love creating my own meaningful rituals.

I’ve also worked as an NHS Carer Peer Support Coach, in Occupational Therapy with children and adults with PMLD, a Community Engagement Manager in the arts, a Support Group Facilitator, and as a Writer/Performer.

Bex Gordon - the therapist. She is smiling with long blonde hair, a pink jumper, and a black necklace. The light is warm and soft, and there's a plant in the background with spiky leaves.

I believe in:

  • Including nervous system work in talking therapy. Long-term healing often comes from learning to recognise and regulate your nervous system. Many mental health issues arise from “functional” trauma states of fight, flight, freeze and fawn. These are learnt responses to previous environments that have become fixed patterns. These can be relaxed and changed with time and practice.

  • Using creative tools like drawing when working with your unconscious. These are helpful in seeing how you really feel underneath your mind’s story.

  • Parts work when working with inner conflicts.

  • Learning to see yourself in full with compassion.

  • The “sacred pause” (Tara Brach) - stepping out of automatic “doing” and into presence and “being”. Therapy is like a sacred pause, as it’s a moment to reflect and “create a clearing in the dense forest of your life” (Martha Postlewaite).

…And lots more.

A metaphor for calming your nervous system through therapy

My work is informed by:

I work holistically and my training was integrative. This means I bring in learnings from:

  • Psychosynthesis (my main training). This is transpersonal psychology that sees us all as having a drive to live more of who we really are, and following that drive to be a vital part of healing.

  • Somatic Experiencing (SE)

  • Psychodynamic

  • Person-Centered

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS)

  • Jungian Archetypes and Storytelling

  • Family Constellations and intergenerational trauma

  • Gestalt

  • Creative tools (drawing, imagination, meditations).

    I regularly undergo further training too.

A metaphor for the many threads that are woven together in integrative therapy with Bex

I’m an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

I trained with the Psychosynthesis Trust in London.

I also completed a foundation year in Somatic Experiencing (SE) with the SOS Internationale (SOSI).

I also completed a continued professional development workshop in working with sexual trauma.

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