Psychotherapy & Counselling

Starting therapy for the first time can feel daunting. However, talking to someone who can hold space for you and who has been trained to listen to your story empathically and to help you make sense of your experiences can be profoundly helpful.

 

By exploring our thoughts, feelings and fears in a safe, supportive and confidential space that is free from judgment we can start to process them healthily. In doing so we can gain insight into how and why we act and think as we do and achieve a deeper understanding of ourselves and of those around us. This can help us to store difficult experiences in a way in which they impact us less and to break unhelpful and often unconscious patterns that might be working against us. Therapy is a time to prioritise ourselves and our relationship with ourselves and with the right support we can move towards feeling a greater sense of calm and freedom from whatever has previously been holding us back.

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As an integrative therapist I am able to draw on various therapeutic techniques in order to meet you wherever you may be. Counselling is usually shorter term work which focuses on a specific area or difficulty and how it affects us in the present. Psychotherapy works at a much deeper level over a much longer period of time to explore unresolved issues and experiences from our past and help us learn how they impact our thoughts, feelings and behaviours in the present.