I offer a soulful, creative and relational approach to counselling and psychotherapy. I specialise in working with women at times of change, who are seeking to recover lost parts of themselves, find a new sense of purpose, meaning and identity or discover a way through grief, anxiety and depression.
I offer a confidential space in which to compassionately and collaboratively explore who you are, what you long for your difficulties as well as your hopes and dreams.
Approach
Working in an integrative and transpersonal way means working holistically, combining a range of approaches to suit to your needs. Alongside talking, you can work with art materials, image, metaphor, dreams and movement. These can help in exploring things that lie beyond words. No expertise is required to work in this way, and it will be your choice. I also draw on archetypal stories and creative writing. We can work with bringing gentle awareness to the wisdom of your body, to explore stored memories and tensions that may be ready to be released or to support you in finding a sense of calm.
Being in between stories, in the unknown place between who you were and who you might be, between holding on and letting go, can be disorienting and exhausting. Working together therapeutically can help you explore and work through feelings and dilemmas that arise at times such as menopause, empty nest, bereavement, childlessness, changing relationships, a new career or redundancy, so that you feel freer to embrace a new chapter in your life. You might be searching for meaning, purpose or identity, looking to fulfill your potential, live more creatively, claim your inner authority, work with unresolved trauma, or explore sexuality and spirituality.
Symptoms such as anxiety, depression, stuckness, confusion, low self esteem, and strategies like self sabotage, perfectionism, playing small, inner conflicts and repeating patterns are treated as messages. We would work with and look beneath these to see what they might be comunicating or protecting and what is seeking to emerge.
Short term work provides he opportunity to focus on specific difficulties or crises in the present; long term work offers the opportunity for a deeper exploration of issues which may have their roots in the past.
As therapy is 50 minutes weekly. I may suggest activities to support the work in between, such as journalling, short somatic or awareness-raising excercises.
My fees are: £70-85 per 50 minute session
Training and Experience
I have been working in private practice for 16 years. Alongside my core training in Psychosynthesis, I have completed a Certificate in Counselling Skills for Children using the Arts, several weekends training in Somatic Experience and Psychosynthesis, many trauma-informed trainings, an introduction to Internal Family Systems, Jungian based work, a Foundation in Systemic Constellations and a Certificate in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes. I am a ‘Sesame Practitioner’, and work with movement and story enactment to explore how you experience yourself and your place in the world. Within therapy these approaches can be integrated to suit your preferences and needs.
Otherwise – I have a background in education as a primary and secondary school teacher, and teacher trainer. I run training for therapists in use of the sand tray and creative tehcniques. I bring to the work a love of the arts and belief in the healing power of creativity and nature. I am a labyrinth facilitator, building mindfulness through walking.