Counselling and Psychotherapy
Therapy is unique and personal, and can involve many different types of experience such as:
- sharing and exploring life history
- sharing experiences of isolation, exclusion, rejection, or feeling lost or confused.
- the processing of traumatic memories and pain
- wading through confusing and chaotic emotions or intrusive thoughts
- reshaping a client's thought processes, beliefs, or sense of self
- learning to cope with family and relationship problems
- exploring how we relate to the world around us, and how it affects us.
My intention as therapist is firstly to be there to receive, accept, and understand whatever the other person brings to me; to practice the deep listening that enables people to come to understand themselves better and grow; and to respond to specific needs that people have with the range of practices or skills that I can bring from my own life experience.
Whilst therapy can be a difficult or painful process, what I experience most often is people coming to accept and value themselves in new ways; developing freedom to act and choose; growing in the capacity to feel; and learning to relate to people based on their own needs rather than on the demands of others. Whatever it is that brings someone to me, I will allow them the space to communicate that freely in their own time, and then cooperate with them to understand what they want from the time they spend with me and what I can offer them.
- sharing and exploring life history
- sharing experiences of isolation, exclusion, rejection, or feeling lost or confused.
- the processing of traumatic memories and pain
- wading through confusing and chaotic emotions or intrusive thoughts
- reshaping a client's thought processes, beliefs, or sense of self
- learning to cope with family and relationship problems
- exploring how we relate to the world around us, and how it affects us.
My intention as therapist is firstly to be there to receive, accept, and understand whatever the other person brings to me; to practice the deep listening that enables people to come to understand themselves better and grow; and to respond to specific needs that people have with the range of practices or skills that I can bring from my own life experience.
Whilst therapy can be a difficult or painful process, what I experience most often is people coming to accept and value themselves in new ways; developing freedom to act and choose; growing in the capacity to feel; and learning to relate to people based on their own needs rather than on the demands of others. Whatever it is that brings someone to me, I will allow them the space to communicate that freely in their own time, and then cooperate with them to understand what they want from the time they spend with me and what I can offer them.