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I can come to your home or you can be seen at my premises. I offer a safe and comfortable environment to enable self reflection and therapy without interruptions.
I am able to offer Skype appointments at a prearranged time. My fees are £40 an hour and the sessions are open ended according to your need.
Please have a look at my "gallery" for testimonials from previous clients.
I wanted to introduce the 4 main theories which underline my practice to enable a better understanding of what I do as an integrative therapist and these follow below.
Humanistic/Person-centred therapy
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Person-centered therapy is a humanistic approach that deals with the ways in which individuals perceive themselves consciously rather than how a counselor can interpret their unconscious thoughts or ideas.
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This approach ultimately sees human beings as having an innate tendency to develop towards their full potential.
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However, this ability can become blocked or distorted by our life experiences - particularly those that affect our sense of value.
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The counselor in this approach works to understand an individual's experience from their point of view.
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The counselor must positively value the client as a person in all aspects of their humanity, while aiming to be open and genuine.
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This is vital to helping an individual feel accepted and better understand their own feelings - essentially helping them to reconnect with their inner values and sense of self-worth.
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This re connection with their inner resources enables them to find their own way to move forward.
Gestalt Therapy
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Gestalt therapy helps to focus on the present and understand what is really happening in your life right now, rather than on past experience.
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Through the gestalt process, it is possible to learn to become more aware of how negative thought patterns and behaviours are blocking true self-awareness and making you unhappy.
Creative Visualisation involves using an image to give your emotions and thoughts an imagined place that can be accessed to describe how you feel in the present and where you would like to "be" in the future.
Transactional Analysis is based on the idea that one's behaviour and social relationships reflect an interchange between parental (critical and nurturing), adult (rational), and childlike (intuitive and emotional) aspects of personality established early in life.