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Applied Pattern Integration is the therapeutic framework I created for Breathwork to be held within This distinction matters. Breathwork alone, accesses layers of the human psyche that talk therapy often cannot reach, emotional material stored in the body, formative patterns operating below conscious awareness, and dimensions of experience that exist beyond ordinary thinking. But what determines the depth and lasting quality of an outcome is not the breath alone. It’s everything it sits within. Applied Pattern Integration provides that framework.

Together we identify the patterns that have been quietly running your life, the stories, beliefs, and behaviours that formed in response to earlier experiences, often long before you had words for them. We acknowledge that they once made sense. And then we gently release the need for them to remain.

Between sessions, personalised practices continue the integration process in your day to day life. The word applied reflects this. It is responsive and built entirely around you.

The breath opens the door. Applied Pattern Integration is what you walk through it with.

Breathwork is an umbrella term which captures all forms of breath related explorations and approaches to well-being. I specialise in a conscious connected breathing technique which is a deep diaphragmatic practice that uses the entire respiratory system.

Where Applied Pattern Integration identifies and surfaces the patterns, stories and beliefs running beneath conscious awareness, the Breathwork component in your session with me is where the mind and body work together, one opening what the other deepens.

The breath accesses layers of the human psyche that conversation alone cannot reach. Emotional material held in the body. Formative patterns beneath conscious awareness. Dimensions of experience that exist beyond ordinary thinking. When the body feels safe enough to move through these layers, shifts occur.

The Breathwork component in each session is designed entirely for you, informed by everything that has been identified and explored in the work that proceeds it. This is a precisely held, therapeutically scaffolded experience. Each session is woven together with intention and precision, meeting you exactly where you are in life.

Breathwork practices have been passed down through a long lineage of ancient teachings including Eastern Yogic traditions. I work with a technique that draws inspiration from rebirthing and holotropic breathwork. Rebirthing breathwork is credited to metaphysical teacher Leonard Orr who in 1962, explored the impact of conscious breathing on emotional healing. Holotropic breathwork delves into non-ordinary states of consciousness and was first discovered in the 1940s and developed in 1974 by psychiatrist Stanislav Grof M.D. and his late wife Christina.

I facilitate breathwork within a therapeutic framework I developed called Applied Pattern Integration. This offers a structured yet adaptive process for identifying and integrating unconscious behavioural and relational patterns.

You will not find anyone else using Applied Pattern Integration.

Most Breathwork sessions offer a technique and a space to use it. This is valuable, but technique alone has it’s limitations. What makes how I work so unique is the therapeutic container built around the breath. Before your Breathwork journey begins, we are already working, with what you’ve brought, what patterns we are identifying, and what your psyche appears ready to meet. The approach I use is responsive to you in real time, with the ability to easily pivot to work best with you.

Underpinning all of this is over two decades of expertise supporting people navigating the most complex of human experiences. A regular Breathwork session can move something within. Applied Pattern Integration precisely accesses and works with the layers beneath the layers and creates lasting change.

My clients come from all walks of life and include business leaders, entrepreneurs, directors, social workers, first responders, educators, creatives, musicians, as well as government organisations and NGOs aiming to develop leadership skills, focus on wellbeing, and expand their creative processes.

I am currently based in Auckland, New Zealand and offer in person and online sessions. All in person sessions are offered as a mobile service, held at your home or an agreed alternate location. A travel cost applies and will be confirmed at the time of booking. Any venue hire is an additional cost.

Breathwork is a practice which must be facilitated by someone who is trained, qualified and experienced.

It is a R18 practice which carries some contraindications (a diagnosis or condition where a practice is not recommended). Please read the Terms & Conditions on this website for a comprehensive list.

Breathwork (or breath holds that can cause light-headedness) must never be practiced when driving or operating machinery.

Breathwork or breath holds must never be practiced in extreme hot or cold temperatures or in water (including bath tubs, showers, spas, pools, ocean, saunas, ice baths and any other body of water not mentioned here) or in any other place or environment where it might be dangerous to faint.

Breathwork or breath holds must never be practiced when working with sharp objects or partaking in any other potentially hazardous activity including immediately following a breathwork session.