My Approach

 

 

Relational and Humanistic - Attending to the relationship and the relational space and exchange that occurs between you and I, client and therapist, offers a rich platform for relational insight and exploration. Also encouraging  and nurturing the ongoing development  of your relationship to your inner world: the parts, characters and voices you carry within you. Inner relationship work supports you to strengthen a non judgemental, open and receiving attitude to whatever is present within you. Together we work to nurture a more vital and aware relationship in all areas of your life.

 

Presence - Being fully present in a therapy session involves being open to whatever is happening, responding to each moment by moment without a pre conceived plan or agenda.

 

Co-creation and Collaboration - The work is offered as a cooperative collaboartion where we journey together as equals. This offers a very different feel to a more medicalised/traditional therapy situation where there is an arbitrary separation between the therapist and client, and the therapist is the 'expert'.

 

Meaning - You will find the question 'What does this mean to you?' permeates our work together, explicitly and implicitly. Rather than ideas of 'wrongdoing' and 'rightdoing' we work with your deepest value and meaning. 

 

Creative Processes (Creative Expressive Therapy)

 

Other-than-word and creative approaches will meet you at a non verbal and intuitive level of experiencing. Here people tend to find themselves less armored and therefore more open to exploration and growth work. Working in this way helps open and broaden the material you are working on, offering fresh perspectives and insights. Doodling, shaping clay, using stones and pebbles or other objects to indicate relationship dynamics, creative storytelling, visualising or other methods can be offered. Absolutely no creative merit needed!

 

Creative Dream Exploration (Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts)

 

The images and symbols of dreams can be baffling to our waking consciousness. Through the unique process of creative enquiry healing, value and meaning can emerge. 

 

Body Oriented Awareness/ Somatic Approach - (Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy) 

Your bodily sense and bodily wisdom is a vast source of rich inner knowing. Tapping into this stream of information can increase your intuition, reliance on your 'gut instinct' and help you to make more clear decisions.  Body oriented approaches invite you to connect with inner content that may be emotional, sensory or symbolic that is held in your body and support you to strengthen an ongoing bodily awareness.

 

Mindfull Practice - (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction)

 

No meditation experience or skill needed! Mindfulness can offer you a way to slow down, be present and to bring awareness to your present experiencing; often offering great relaxation, quietening of a busy mind and centering your energy. Offering you the gift of being fully present with your attention available for whatever is happening moment to moment.  . 

 

 

Psycho-therapeutic Energy Work - (Emotional Freedom Techniques)

 

Energy psychology and the resultant therapeutic advancements are at the cutting edge of new developments in the field. The fusion of Western talk therapy and Eastern energy meridian therapy results in techniques that can help people to delve deep into the unknown, much like in hypnosis, and retrieve depth material, change and resolve inner turmoil and conflict, and transform inner beliefs and programming.  This pioneering approach takes 'the edge off' previously big emotional memories, works quickly to identify root issues and causes of emotional disturbance and offers huge emotional relief in a significantly shorter time than traditional talk therapy. 

 

Therapeutic Coaching -  (Solution Focused)

 

My therapeutic coaching style holds your forward movement in mind, balancing that with your inner journey and inner resources.  I do not have imposed solutions to your problems but I can support you to identify the steps and actions that you want to take.  

 

Eco Therapy

 

Taking the work outside can help to bring fresh perspectives.  Nature is also a dynamic, alive and creative environment that provides a rich backdrop to ponder, reflect upon and engage with therapeutically to aid your own discovery and growth. We can sit in my large and mature garden or take a gentle walk on a pre destined course. 

 

Relationship

 

- Attending to the relationship and the relational space and exchange that occurs between you and I, client and therapist, offers a rich platform for relational insight and exploration. Also encouraging  and nurturing the ongoing development  of your relationship to your inner world: the parts, characters and voices you carry within you. Inner relationship work supports you to strengthen a non judgemental, open and receiving attitude to whatever is present within you. Together we work to nurture a more vital and aware relationship in all areas of your life.

 

Presence -

 

Being fully present in a therapy session involves being open to whatever is happening, responding to each moment by moment without a pre conceived plan or agenda.

 

Co-creation and Collaboration

 

This is very different from the more traditional therapy situation where there is an arbitrary separation between the therapist and client, and the therapist is the 'expert'.