How can therapy help
​Therapy offers a space to open up and explore what is truly going on for you, as well as how you might like to grow and change. Having a good connection and building a trusting relationship with your counsellor is key to a successful partnership, in which we can examine your experience and explore together with gentle curiosity. I aim to build this trust with warmth, honesty and compassion, sharing my expertise as I walk alongside you in supportive and caring way to unpack what is most pressing for you.
Therapy can help with a wide range of issues, whether you're in the midst of anxiety, depression, ​managing stress, struggling through bereavement and loss, or facing difficulties in your relationships. In addition, I have specialist knowledge and experience of working with trauma, particularly sexual trauma, and the complexities of this.
Motherhood and Matrescence: I have a particular interest in working with mothers and mothers-to-be. I previously spent several years working in specialist perinatal counselling service, and following my own experience of having children and my own journey of matrescence, want to offer more support to other parents at this stage of development. Find out more here
Outdoor Therapy: ​I have always found time spent in nature to be a great source of replenishment, offering space to reflect, gain insight and a change of perspective. Following further training, I am delighted to be able to incorporate this into my therapeutic offerings, taking counselling and therapy out into the woods and hills around my locality. Find out more here. Please get in touch to discuss further if this is of interest to you.
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I am trained in contemporary relational Gestalt therapy, a holistic and creative way of exploring different aspects of our current existence and potential. In Gestalt, we recognise and value all realms of human experience, working emotionally, cognitively, spiritually, and with embodied awareness. By attending to what is happening in the therapeutic encounter, we build a felt sense of what is vital in the here-and-now, and may have resonance for other relationships.
I offer a compassionate and respectful therapeutic relationship, in which we work collaboratively to explore how your life and relationships are shaped by past experiences and patterns. Through expanding awareness of how we think, feel and act in the world, we begin to challenge our fixed patterns and habits, opening the door to new possibilities for growth and change.
Gestalt offers a flexible approach which can take the form that best enables you to develop, incorporating levels of support and challenge appropriate to your point in the journey.This creative and experimental approach broadens our horizons of how we relate to ourselves and others, enabling the exploration of new avenues for choice and change.
