I believe that everyone who comes to see me is unique.
I am trained in a number of alternative approaches to help overcome psychosocial problems and I use the style that is most helpful to you as an individual. At your initial session, we collaborate to find out what you would like to achieve and what obstacles are currently preventing you from getting there. We then develop an appropriate programme of support to meet your specific requirements. I tend to find that different therapies work with different people at different times; it is rare that someone cannot benefit at all from any single approach, more that the approach might be better suited to a particular issue at an appropriate time. By working with you to identify what issues are most pressing to you now, we can develop a plan to best help you address them.
I am trained in several key approaches to therapy, namely Person-Centre Counselling, EMDR and Human Givens Therapy. I also integrate a wide range of skills and techniques to help you feel better and find creative solutions to your problems. These include:
- Using grounding/relaxation techniques and guided imagery to help you feel more at ease in the moment;
- Bilateral stimulation is used to encourage working through traumas to reach a place of greater peace and contentment;
- Reconnecting with a previous sense of mastery and achievement and using this to move forwards;
- Targetted goal-setting to help you identify the changes that you most wish to achieve as a result of therapy;
- Anxiety/worry management techniques;
- Learning to recognise negative thinking and to challenge it when it arises;
- Increasing social connections and improving your sense of wellbeing through gaining a sense of achievement.
By integrating these techniques at appropriate moments we can work together to enable you to achieve your goals, whether they are to bring your anger under control, break destructive habits and patterns of behaviour, increase your self-confidence, overcome the impact of traumatic events, understand the cycle of depression and to break free from it, reduce worry and stop anxiety from limiting your life, or to relate better to others in your personal and professional relationships.
In addition to indoor sessions, I feel that working in the outdoors can improve a sense of connection to the wider world. If you would like to try this approach, I hold walk and talk sessions, conducting therapy whilst we walk, encouraging activity and movement, both physically and in terms of kickstarting important changes. Being outdoors can enable you to step outside of your problems and difficulties and enable you to embrace alternative perspectives that had previously been inaccessible.
I believe the most important thing is to help you to recover and to achieve your goals, not for me to stick solely to one model. We will work together to do so.
