Integrative Transpersonal psychotherapy

No two clients are the same, therefore it is important that the therapy is tailored to suit your needs. Through my integrative training I am able to work creatively in meeting those needs. My interest lies in how our lived experience from the past can impact the present. This can often present itself in our relationships, self-image and self-beliefs. As well as working with underlying narratives from the past, my approach also focuses on the present moment, through giving a place to what is happening in the therapist-client relationship. Acknowledging these points of contact can at times be challenging, as it invites us to give a place to what was and continues to be longed for relationally, as well as the historical wounds we carry around what wasn’t given a place and attended to by those closest to us.

I work closely with the body in holding a space for these places. Developing a relationship with the body and creating dialogue with different parts of it, can be a particularly effective means of working with emotions that feel out of reach or difficult to process with our rational minds.

I draw upon a number of therapeutic approaches in supporting your healing journey. These include Gestalt, Psychodynamic, Jungian and Transpersonal Psychotherapy. I specialise in offering an holistic approach in the treatment of depression, anxiety, bereavement, and addictions. This means working with all aspects of your experience, as a means of helping you to gain a more complete understanding of the underlying issues related to these difficulties. My experience of working with clients over a 14 year period has shown me that this is one of the most effective methods of fostering lasting change.

Alongside talking together, I may suggest the use of mindfulness, (non-contact) bodywork, drawing, or dream work. These can be a powerful means toward helping you understand and fulfil more of your potential, and the discovery of your real self. Real, in this sense being what feels true and authentic for you in your own experience and learning to trust this.

One way of viewing the therapeutic process, is in helping to identify what gets lost in the midst of our lives; what we deeply long for within ourselves. Through which a deepened self-awareness can grow, creating the possibility of greater potential and lasting change in how you lead your life. I aim to help you to discover more about yourself and to facilitate your growth in self-awareness and authenticity. I believe that as this happens, and you become more self-aware, you naturally begin to make better choices in your life.

It may seem surprising how often we are reluctant to give ourselves the very thing that we need most; the gift of understanding this deeper part of ourselves, in a way that permits us to start to change the way we engage firstly in our internal world and subsequently in our external world. 

As a psychotherapist, I am committed to creating a safe environment in which you can begin this process at a pace that feels right for you. In this regard, choosing to come into relationship with places in ourselves that maybe we have spent a life time avoiding, it is important that we can be compassionate and patient with ourselves.

I also use systemic constellations in my work with clients. This can offer a means of understanding and healing inter-generational trauma in an embodied way that allows an insight into the underlying family, cultural and societal systems at play.

As well as offering face to face appointments, I also see clients online, both in the UK and internationally. My experience of having worked with clients online over a number of years, is that it can provide an effective means of working at depth and supporting real change. In this regard, many of the approaches I use within a face to face context have been successfully adapted to this format.

I offer short and longer term counselling and psychotherapy.