Why counselling?

You might be struggling with difficult feelings of stuckness, anxiety, anger, shame or burnout, finding a sense of agency and meaning in life, working out how to make better contact with others in your life, handling a difficult transition, or struggling with issues around identity. Very often this may involve relational difficulties of some kind, with others or with yourself. Many people who come to counselling do not necessarily know yet the issue they want to discuss, but have a general sense of something being wrong or out of place in their lives.

My approach

I hold a Diploma in Gestalt Counselling, having trained at the Gestalt Centre in London. I also have a Certificate in Humanistic Integrative Counselling, and my working style is influenced by other approaches, including psychodynamic practices, Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), and the Neuroaffective Relational Model (NARM).

I don’t see my role as to offer advice, but rather to support and facilitate you to work through what it is that may be troubling you, through helping to increase your awareness of what may be going on, and increasing your resilience to find a solution that works for you.

Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt Therapy provides a way to look at the whole of a person’s experience, and the impact that it has upon them.

It combines a focus upon the present moment, and a commitment to increase awareness of what is happening in the here and now, with an interest in the entirety of the context and situation in which they find themselves. It then enquires as to how what has happened in someone’s past, and their orientation towards the future, may influence how they experience the present.