“This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one’s potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.”
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Counselling can be short or long term, in-room or remote. It can help you feel heard and understood, and provide an opportunity for you to make sense of yourself within your world, and offer potential towards insights and self-compassion to enable change. Psychotherapy can also help you (as above) however we may explore emotions, patterns, behaviour, identity, or areas of inequality a little more deeply. This is typically longer term, and affords space and time to look at core wounds and influences. Both offer the chance to get closer to yourself.
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There can be times when difficulties emerge within your relationship(s). This can be problematic for you and those close to you, as well as significantly impact other aspects of your life. You may want to enhance your relationship, to improve the quality of connection, and help build awareness so that you can more consciously make choices and communicate. Sometimes you may be looking to end a relationship, or an ending may emerge. Clear communication throughout this process can be helpful. On the whole counselling with another can be a very healthy process.
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Supervision is arranged as a regular meeting between supervisee and supervisor to aid the efficacy of the counsellor-client relationship with the client at the centre. It is a supportive and collaborative process that aims to develop knowledge, and competence to work as safely and effectively as possible. In alignment with the BACP ethical framework and lawful practice, concerns and responsibilities are afforded exploration, and issues and dilemmas addressed.
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Walk and talk, or meeting at an agreed outdoor location within nature, offers numerous proposed benefits. These include but aren’t limited to: A reduction in formality and less pressure to ‘find the words’. An aid to wellbeing through natures green and blue stimuli. Ample metaphorical opportunity, offering interception on your experience. Conversely, stimuli outside of your emotions which can aid regulation. In other words there is a grounded quality of being outdoors, plus instinctual regulated breathing can be calming. The duration of walk and talk is roughly estimated, as sometimes we may meet a wild animal (hopefully friendly) get stuck in mud, or take a detour. See - Walk & Talk
Counselling & Psychotherapy
Welcome. I’m client-centred and trauma-aware. I provide an accepting, honest, collaborative relationship to help you explore and connect with aspects of yourself and your experience.
It can be confusing to know where to start, and it can also be hard to imagine a way out of where you are. Let me offer reassurance: You have made the first step by reading this. The second step is to contact either me or another counsellor. If you choose me, the third step is to arrange an initial session, which will help you establish whether I am the right fit for you.
Once the day, time, and frequency of ongoing sessions are established, we begin. The alchemy of the therapeutic relationship can help you explore, understand, connect and accept aspects of yourself and your experience; in doing so, this can facilitate change.
“When I accept myself just as I am, then I can change”
