Counselling and Psychotherapy

When life events or struggles with stress, negative thoughts, numbness become overwhelming, it can help to talk to a professional in a warm, confidential and non-judgmental space outside of your familiar environment.

The therapeutic process fosters a journey towards compassion, fulfilment, and authenticity, allowing you to reclaim your life from the troubles that led you to seek help.

Exploring difficult feelings can reduce their impact as you begin to make sense of your experience and discover new ways of coping. If you feel empty or cut off from your emotions, we can work together on helping you reconnect with yourself.

I am here to listen and collaborate with you so that you can understand yourself better and create the positive change in your life that you seek. Whilst therapy isn’t always easy, looking at your difficulties can be liberating and life-transforming.

Treatment

Counselling and Psychotherapy are often considered to be interchangeable therapies that overlap in a number of ways. Counselling, sometimes considered more for episodic work, can be part of the psychotherapy process. Ultimately, therapy depends on the depth of your therapist’s training and experience. Treatment may include:

Talking about whatever is on your mind today
Taking time to allow your feelings
Telling your life story and reviewing significant experiences
Considering your identity, confidence and sense of empowerment
Exploring how you make and sustain relationships
Mapping your memories, reflections on life and dreams
Discovering your core beliefs and their impact on your thoughts, feelings and behaviour
Learning about psychology and your neurobiology
Developing new coping strategies

How I work

I offer a non-judgmental, safe and confidential space in which you can talk openly about thoughts and feelings in a way which might not be possible with friends or family.

Together we will develop an understanding of what troubles you and why. With growing self-awareness, you can develop insight into your relational dynamics, understand your thoughts and emotions, and recognise repetitive, unhelpful patterns of behaviour. This insight is the foundation of change.

As relational beings, we are shaped and being shaped by the experiences that have, in the past, and continue to influence who we are. The therapeutic relationship between you and me plays an important part in this process. It is a powerful conduct to facilitating change.