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Improvements you can expect to see through counselling include:

  • Increased self-awareness - understanding patterns of thoughts, behaviours, emotions and beliefs and impact these have.
  • Building self-acceptance - developing a kinder way of being towards yourself, learning to be more compassionate and less self-critical.
  • Improve emotional regulation - building mind-body connection, identifying and understanding our emotions and what they are trying to communicate with us.
  • Building resilience - being able to move in and out of states of anxiety/depression etc. more easily and not getting stuck in fixed patterns.
  • Improve communication - adding boundaries and fostering healthier relationships with those around you, enabling you to connect more deeply and authentically.
  • Empowerment -  finding agency and purpose to make choices which are authentic to you.


Counselling



My practice uses an Cognitive Behaviouralist Therapy (CBT) approach:  I will help you gain insight into the thoughts, behaviours, emotions and experiences that might unconsciously impact how you live your life and help you to develop a compassionate understanding of why you have developed certain ways of being along with tools to help you do something differently. I also work with the body, using a somatic approach; developing a personal sense of your body and all the information it stores which our thinking mind can’t always access. I work in a trauma-informed practice and compassion is always at the centre of my practice. 

I seek to provide a trusting and meaningful relationship, creating a safe and gentle space which is yours. I believe in the power of healing and growth which the therapeutic relationship can provide; in not judging, criticising or offering advice but instead through allowing space to feel heard and to express and acknowledge the feelings and difficulties life can bring. The theraputic relationship provides a secure base, where we can learn different ways of being relationally and build safety within ourselves, which can be transferred onto relationships in the outside world. My practice is collaborative, working at your pace and towards your goals.