ABOUT COUNSELLING/PSYCHOTHERAPY.
As your therapist I can help facilitate change by creating a safe environment for you to clarify your thoughts and express your feelings.
I work by trying my best to understand you and how you are feeling at this present moment. By doing this we will learn to understand your thoughts and feelings and look at any unfolding events or themes in your life that leave you feeling the way you do.
I will give you plenty of room to explore any issues in your own way. Don’t let me fool you into thinking it’s an easy process because at times it may be quite difficult, but it is at these points where the real work lies in your self exploration, and it is worthwhile if you can stick at it and realise your own potential for change.
Once you have really been able to acknowledge your difficulties or life changes rather than live in fear of them, you may begin to find a certain kind of peace, which can add a great quality to your life.
My approach.
I consider myself to be an ‘Integrative therapist’ and I have studied the ‘Relational approach’ to therapy. I draw upon two major theoretical schools of thought, that being the ‘person centred approach’ and the ‘psychodynamic’. I use them as a framework for my practice to gather an understanding of the relationship and its development. I can work with concepts such as ‘Transactional analysis’ or ‘cognitive/behavioural’ methods, which offer me flexibility within my work, but I work with these different concepts from a viewpoint of my understanding of relational dynamics.
By encouraging a client to notice their own life experiences, clients can begin to develop a greater understanding about how they can create new and more beneficial ways of managing/relating/living etc, thereby reducing their amount of psychological distress. What I believe is of significant importance, is to affirm the individual’s actuality, and attempt to raise awareness of the underlying beliefs or principles that govern and control the clients life.
