What to expect

What to expect

I guide my clients in exploring their experience, helping them to make sense of their thoughts and emotions. I also pay attention to embodied experience (sensations and energy within the body), images and intuition.

I help clients to identify patterns and behaviours which may be limiting their life or impacting their relationships or emotional wellbeing. Past experiences inform our behaviour. When we are not aware of this, it can impact our relationships with others and ourself.

With awareness comes choice in how we think and act. Inner freedom. Flow.

The first session

The first session is an opportunity for us to get to know each other. Our relationship is fundamental to the therapy and so it is important that we feel comfortable together. I aim to provide a space where you feel safe and understood.

I will ask you a wide range of questions to understand your reasons for seeking therapy, learn a bit about your past and begin to know you. Importantly, I will also ask questions about your medical and mental health history to ensure that I am able to work with you safely and responsibly. There will also be time for you to ask me questions.

If we decide to work together, I recommend weekly sessions for an initial 6-week period. After that, we may continue to work together for a further defined period or on an ongoing basis.

Psychosynthesis

Psychosynthesis is a holistic and transpersonal approach to psychotherapy. This means that I see each client as as a unique individual with practical, real-life challenges to face and I see their potential, their need for meaning and their connection to the whole. Transpersonal conveys the spiritual aspect of existence alongside the ordinary, mundane part.

Unlike some forms of therapy which might focus predominantly on the client’s history or current challenges, psychosynthesis also invites us to hold the possibility of qualities emerging and a sense of moving forward.