Considering Therapy?

Whatever led you here, I fully welcome you. I know for some of us, this part of the process can feel like a big step, and the initial contact with any therapist can require a lot of courage.

Please feel free to read through the site at your own pace and contact me for an initial, free 30 minute consultation, when you feel ready.

Reasons to seek out therapy are, much like ourselves, varied, nuanced and complex. 

Maybe there is one issue or a collection of things which are causing some kind of difficulty, distress or are troubling you in some way, or perhaps you’re experiencing a general sense of discontent or unease that’s a little more difficult to describe, understand or resolve.

Therapy with an experienced therapist can give us the opportunity and holding that we may need in order to explore in a particular way, our past or present experiences or curiosities about ourselves, which many of us may not have had either growing up, during or even in the spaces after very challenging, confusing or painful moments in our lives.

These can range from or be a mixture of difficulties from our past, repeating patterns of behaviour, struggles with those we are or were in relationship with, or forms of previous or ongoing abuse, harm, prejudice and discrimination, both interpersonal or systemic.

Each of us is an ongoing process and collection of stories and conditions which is unique to us all.

My practice as a therapist is informed by honouring all the unique parts of ourselves, where the direction of the work we do or inquiries we choose to follow, are initiated by yourself. 

As your therapist my role is to be actively involved in your journey, to be alongside you in your experience, supporting and facilitating your explorations, whatever they may be, wherever they may lead us.

My practice blends together perspectives and understandings from both Person-Centred psychotherapy and Buddhist psychology, alongside elements of experiential focussing, somatic tracking and meditation practices from the Buddhist tradition. The foundation of our work together  however is the relationship cultivated between us, held in empathic understanding, authentic relating and presence.

When space is held for us in this way, we can begin reacquainting ourselves with our own resources, wisdoms and resiliency, and come back into relationship with the vitality and creativity of life itself, and begin to hold space for ourselves. 

Holding space meaning, we can start to develop the capacity within our whole embodied system, to identify and look at parts of ourselves and the parts of how we might be functioning, approaching and entering into the world around us.

Allowing space and time for the things which trouble us can, more and more, build our capacity to ‘stay with the trouble’ as Donna Haraway put it. 

With compassion and understanding, we can stay more connected, embodied and alive to the insights and choices we may have previously missed or ignored and invite shifts within our relating with others and ourselves.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue

bell hooks

Accreditations, Certifications and Memberships

The Metanoia Institute
The Person-Centred Association (TPCA)
World Association of Person-Centred and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counselling (WAPCEPC)