Services
"We are not what happened to us, we are what we choose to become"
Carl Jung
How I Work
My therapeutic approach is Integrative, based on Humanistic therapy, and combining various theories to address each client’s unique needs. I help you feel more connected with yourself - and more connected to others and the world around you. I promote healing and personal growth, enabling you to better understand yourself - your values, and your life purpose so that you can take control of your life to make positive changes.
My work is being undertaken under the laws and ethical guidelines of UK.
What happens during our sessions?
The first 2-3 sessions are about assessment. I would like to know more about your present, your story, and what brought you to therapy. We will identify 2-3 goals to work towards and every 6-7 sessions we will do a review.
Sessions might focus on working through past trauma, managing anger, or changing habits that are causing distress. You will build resilience and healthier coping mechanisms to deal with challenges. You also reflect on goals and foster greater self-awareness and self-acceptance. I also focus on improving the quality of your relationships, whether with a partner, family members, friends, or colleagues. Sessions might involve learning better communication skills, cultivating resilience, resolving conflicts, and deepening emotional connections.
Person-Centred Therapy
Person-centred therapy, also known as client-centred counselling, is a humanistic approach. It explores how you consciously perceive yourself rather than how your counsellor can interpret your unconscious thoughts or ideas. This approach works on the belief that we all contain untapped potential and focuses on maximising our ability to find solutions with my support.
The premise is that we all have the answers from within to thrive - that you can reach your full potential and become your true self. The approach helps you reconnect with your values and sense of self-worth, enabling you to find your way to move forward by increasing self-awareness and clarity while enhancing self-esteem and self-confidence. I treat you as the expert on yourself and do not judge you, no matter what you bring to the session. We build a trustworthy relationship where you can freely express yourself.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a type of therapy that considers your thoughts, feelings and behaviours and helps change some of these to manage your problems. An integral part of this is identifying the negative thinking patterns you may feel trapped in, enabling you to break free from these and feel better. CBT focuses on equipping you with the tools to address and relieve your current difficulties.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy helps you understand how your current feelings and behaviour are shaped by your past experiences - by your unconscious mind and impulses. I encourage you to talk freely about whatever comes to mind. There may be things in your unconscious that you are unaware of or are painful and keep you stuck. A key concept in the psychodynamic approach is transference, where you redirect feelings you experienced in previous significant relationships onto me. Transference can help you learn more about your feelings, behaviours and actions and resolve the feelings that originate from these relationships.
Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt therapy is a humanistic and person-centred therapy that focuses on the immediate here and now - and how it can be explored to help you. It looks at how your past affects and influences how you feel in this moment rather than how you felt back then. It is about raising awareness of what is happening in the moment, between you and your therapist. Gestalt works on the principle that everyone is a whole – made up of mind, body and soul – and draws on the philosophical idea that the whole is other than the sum of its parts. To fully understand people, you have to look at their current situation as they experience it. The focus is on where you feel certain emotions in your body or on giving voice to physical sensations in the body to reveal more understanding of underlying emotional experiences.
Attachment Theory
Attachment theory focuses on relationships and bonds (particularly long-term) between people, including those between a parent and child and between romantic partners. It is a psychological explanation for the emotional bonds and relationships between people. This theory suggests that people are born with a need to forge bonds with caregivers as children. These early bonds may continue to have an influence on attachments throughout life. Research suggests that failure to form secure attachments early in life can have a negative impact on behaviour in later childhood and throughout life.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness aims to reconnect us with the present moment to alleviate stress. It also helps us feel more attuned to our emotions and generally more aware of ourselves both mentally and physically. Mindfulness is a specific way of paying attention to what is happening in our lives in the present moment, as it truly is.
Coaching
The fact that I provide both coaching and counselling, I understand the similarities and the differences. While coaching and counselling are the same in that they both provide you with a helpful relationship with a person that supports your wellness and growth there are differences in their goals. My coaching experience includes recruitment, liaising with senior leaders, project-management experience and working with parents. In the first session, we will plan a series of coaching sessions.
Coaching FAQs
The aim of coaching is usually to make change happen, but this can be part of a process that first starts with working out what patterns, beliefs or relationship dynamics may be holding you from reaching your full potential. Ultimately, coaching is about self-empowerment through self-management and increased self-efficacy. Coaching is about change and action. The core purpose of coaching is to increase self-awareness, to make choices explicit and to close the gap between potential and how things are currently. Coaching has a developmental focus. We look at how the there and then may impact the here and now, but it is not primarily focused on understanding the past or overcoming traumatic events. I use the GROW model (Goal, Reality, Options, Will) as coaching focussing on achieving future goals and maximising potential - the outcome is growth, performance and self-empowerment.
If you’re looking to enhance performance, achieve specific goals or overcome obstacles in personal or professional areas.
Possibly the most important difference between these two approaches is their focus. Counselling, or psychotherapy, focuses on understanding, resolving and healing emotional trauma and pain carried through from the past. Coaching is focused on the present and future. Being a certified coach I help you to identify goals, leverage personal strengths and take action. I am trained to help you acknowledge where you are today more clearly, and then support you in finding ways, strategies and tools to move you forward and closer toward your goals. I help you discover what it is that you want to do in your life, career and with your well-being.