So often we think of healing as work—as something we have to push through, like it’s supposed to be hard, heavy, linear. And yes, sometimes it is hard. Sometimes it asks everything of us.

But what if healing wasn’t just about work? What if it was about play— about returning to the parts of us that already know how to explore, create, and trust joy?

There’s a quote by Fred Rogers that I love: “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”

As adults, we forget this. We forget how to play. We forget that aliveness, joy, movement, and curiosity are also medicine.

What is Soul Play?

Psychotherapist Ester Perel says, “Play is the pleasure of being inventive, mischievous, imaginative, and trying something new.”

That’s the heartbeat of Soul Play. It’s not about fixing or striving—it’s about softening, listening, experimenting, and rediscovering the truth that’s always lived inside you. Soul Play invites you to meet every part of yourself with compassion, to honour the wisdom of your body, and to trust that even your most painful chapters have something to teach.

My coaching and counselling weave Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic experiencing, EMDR and psychedelic-informed practices. But at its core, Soul Play is rooted in presence and love.

Soul Play is layered. It’s not linear. Sometimes it looks like tears in a safe space; sometimes, it’s dancing barefoot under the trees, laughing, exhaling for the first time in years.

Through our process together we listen to the nervous system. We honour the parts of you that once protected. We invite in curiosity, joy, reverence, and grounded presence. We call in clarity. We call in wholeness.