I work in a Person Centred way, with the belief that you are the person most knowledgeable about your life and your emotional happenings. I believe that each person can work through their distress to find their own unique potential and wellbeing. Given the right conditions YOU have an infinite capacity to heal and grow and I can support and guide you through your process.
It may be scary to talk openly and honestly about your feelings and I want to assure you that whatever you are feeling I will do my best to understand, and will provide a safe space without judgement. I won’t tell you what to do but instead will work closely alongside you to help you work it out. Sometimes that might mean just sitting with you in your sadness, fear and distress, just being there with you when you are at your most vulnerable. This approach does not offer quick fixes yet can be incredibly powerful in enabling lasting change.
Person Centred Creative Arts Therapy
I am a member of APPCA and am a trained Person Centred Creative Arts Counsellor.
There is much research with shows that working creatively in a therapy setting can have an enormous benefit to the healing process. You do not have to be an artist to paint and draw an image in our sessions. I will support and guide you through the process to enable the message of the image to show itself. Please talk to me to find out more.
Compassionate Inquiry
I have completed training with Gabor Mate in a method of working which supports you in cultivating a compassionate response to any of your emotional happenings. I will support you in focusing on your felt sensations in your body, giving space to ‘be’ with these sensations, and giving opportunity to listen to your body’s innate wisdom. Often with this method I will support you in connecting to your inner child and begin the process of connecting to the unprocessed feelings and needs of the child within you. This is a very beautiful, profound way of cultivating a healthy relationship with your inner child where you can begin to reparent in a healthy, playful, boundaried, loving, compassionate way. I believe in the healing power of this relationship, so your inner child begins to fully trust in you so that you can be more and more present in your adult life. This ensures your hurt inner child is less likely to be activated or triggered so you can be fully present in your adult self and response-able when you are in potentially challenging situations. This can be transformational.
Fees
I offer short and long term counselling.
Individual – £40 per counselling hour
Student/Low income – £30 per counselling hour. I have 3 spaces that I keep available for concessions. If you are a student or are on a low income please do ask if these are available. If they are not available you may be able to be put on the waiting list.