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PSYCHOTHERAPY AND COUNSELLING
WHY COUNSELLING?
- You may be considering my counselling option after trying a non relational form such as CBT
- This may be your first time into the world of personal development and you wish to start with some short term focused counselling
- You may be feeling stressed, low, bereft, constantly irritated or obsessed about something or someone and need to talk about things urgently
- You may more deeply feel that life has lost it's meaning or direction and already know poeple who have benefited from some counselling.
I offer counselling because I know from a personal level that with the right counsellor, the experience can be transformative.
WHY PSYCHOTHERAPY?
You may decide that Psychotherapy would be beneficial to you.
- You may want to work over a longer timescale, developing your relationship with your therapist.
- You may feel that counselling just 'isn't doing it'.
- You may want to 'graduate' to psychotherapy after having experienced counselling and it's benefits.
Something about the way I work as a longer term psychotherapist:
- I work with the whole person, with your whole experience.
- I work with your character, meaning your deep habits that over time tend to repeat past patterns.
- I work with the therapeutic relationship based on the (partially true) idea that how you are in therapy is how you are in life.
- I work with your inner world, with the various parts to your personality
- I work with your unconscious, the deeper part of you that shapes you and (at times) works against you.
- I work with your identity, meaning your familial and cultural networks that you belong to and that shape you (whether you identify with them or battle against them)
- I work with processes that may be called 'Spiritual' in nature where this is called for.
In summary:
- I work with you as the subject and potential author of your own life, whether from a medical model perspective or a humanisitc one. Essentailly I work with the human condition.
- I work with you and your potential for a meaningful and fulfilled life, whatever your inner and outer reality.
WHO IS IT SUITABLE FOR?
Anyone can benefit from personal development work, whether it is therapy, counselling or body work. Please contact me if you would like to discuss this further.
WHAT DOES A SESSION LOOK LIKE?
This will vary depending on what you are looking for and my input as to the best way that I can help you. We come to a joint way of working together. If you want to get a taste for the work I do, I suggest you book a one off consultation. There is no obligation and the fees are the standard session fee. Book a consultation now on 07989 691241
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