….and how Counselling or Psychotherapy can help
I am an experienced humanistic integrative Counsellor and Psychotherapist, accredited with the BACP and registered with UKCP. This means I am comfortable using a range of counselling and psychotherapeutic approaches to help you gain a deeper understanding of yourself.
Being humanistic or person-centred means I value the uniqueness of you, your experience, your beliefs, and your values.
The co-creation of a therapeutic relationship, based on mutual trust and respect, provides you with a safe space to gain insight into and reconnect fully with yourself.
I believe each person has the capacity and should have the autonomy to fulfil their potential. However, in our busy and demanding lives, it’s all too easy to lose sight of who we are, what we want, what is essential, and where we are going. Counselling and psychotherapy provide a way to help you rebalance and find yourself. Giving yourself time to be, to speak freely, and to feel fully heard and understood leads to change, development, and personal growth.
I provide an open, confidential, and non-judgmental space where, working collaboratively, you can come to understand how your life experiences have influenced your feelings about yourself and some of the difficulties you may be experiencing now.
You may only want short-term work to focus on a specific problem or area of your life. Perhaps you feel as if all your problems have been rammed into a suitcase, in a tangled mess, and the lid slammed shut so they can be forgotten about. And maybe it feels terrifying to open it back up again for fear of what you might face.
Counselling and psychotherapy provide the space to help you open that suitcase, look inside, unpack, rearrange, or discard what is not needed, and repack that suitcase so that you can travel forward, unencumbered, on life’s journey. For addressing specific issues or problem areas, a minimum of six consecutive weekly sessions allows time for the therapeutic relationship to develop.
Yet, given that many of the problems we experience in life today arise from early childhood, when patterns of belief and behaviour were set down and hard-wired into our deepest psyche, longer-term psychotherapeutic work is recommended to support deep and lasting change and growth.
As the therapeutic relationship is fundamental to the counselling process, it is so important you feel comfortable with whoever you choose as your therapist. I offer a complimentary 20-minute introductory online session. This allows us to meet and start exploring how we might work together.
