THE COUNSELLING PROCESS

I am an integrative psychotherapist and counsellor, which means that I work with a number of different approaches so a wide scope of support can be offered, adapting my approach to your needs. I will work to understand your unique way of experiencing the world and adapt my approach to suit you. I provide an environment which is supportive and valuing. I provide a safe, quiet and confidential space for you to talk about what you are finding difficult.

I work in a Person Centred way which means that I am led by you and what is most important to you. I see the relationship between counsellor and client as equal and that my role is to facilitate so you maybe empowered to find your own direction.

Sometimes this might be discussing your past and the impact of this in the present day. To enable me to support this I would work in a Psychodynamic way looking at how your experiences may have influenced your unconscious leading to forming patterns and beliefs in the present. My aim to help you make sense of these and potentially explore different perspectives as well as empower you to build on your strengths or build new ones.

I also use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) which can help to bring greater awareness and control to how feelings, behaviour and thoughts work together. It can help us to recognise and challenge what may not be helpful to you. Sometimes our values and direction can become lost and I can support you finding what is meaningful to you identifying actions that align with these even when facing challenges through the use of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.

I believe that our relationships are really important to our overall well-being, sometimes that we adopt early in our lives and/or our communication styles can keep us stuck and limit our potential, using Transactional Analysis we could look at this and change our patterns of being.

I hope to bring a level of experience and theoretical understanding to my work. My efforts will be to support you so you can begin to feel a sense of clarity, stability and growth. Its a big decision to embark on counselling and one that I have taken myself and found of huge benefit. Please feel free to reach out and ask questions, you have taken the first step!

No matter how large the problem might seem or how stuck you might feel, I encourage you to make contact with me and see if we might be able to work together.