THERAPY/COUNSELING JOURNEY

My 9+ year’s post-qualified experience, encompasses a multitude of issues, but I specialise working with the many facets of trauma and abuse. I subscribe you to the school of thought, you are not broken, you do not need fixing, even though you may feel you are. You are experiencing physical and emotional responses to whatever it is you have experienced in your life. So let’s understand them.

My roots are firmly grounded within a humanistic framework, meaning ‘humanness’ is valued, and ‘real’ is prized. My clients regularly comment on my realness within their sessions. My warm and genuine personality, combined with creativity, and a willingness to be vulnerable with you, means that on your journey, wherever it is you need to go, I will be with you every step of the way.

The environment of the therapeutic relationship provides growth in itself, without judgements and conditions which we are constantly subjected to in the outside world, this in itself is healing. Your journey will be unique to you. We often think we are stuck, but there are always choices, we will work to uncover these choices so you gain more flexibility to manoeuvre  through your life.  

We will focus on how you interact within the therapeutic relationship, and bring awareness to the unconscious ways you behave, enabling understanding of what you genuinely need and want,  empowering you to go out and get it.  

Very often we develop coping mechanism’s over our lives, that serve us when we are young, but as adults no longer serve us. I will explore these with you and enable more fitting mechanisms that enable a more happier you.  

Furthermore, by knowing and understanding our values & belief systems, we can identify conflicts, and limiting belief patterns, and change them to releasing us from old ineffective behaviours.

By using your body as your guide, you can learn how to manage and overcome anxiety and depression, and trauma. I work extensively with theories that integrate the mind and body, and teach interventions that enable feelings of control, and a sense of pro-actively managing what goes on for us. 

I am a huge advocate of self care and a pro-active way of managing anxiety and not just reacting to it when it happens.