Therapy with me
Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, navigating change, or just needing space to reflect, I aim to offer a grounded, supportive space. You can learn more about how I work and what to expect here.
How we might work together
Therapy to me is deeply personal and relational.
I offer a humanistic and experiential approach to working with clients as I believe this best supports them to find their voice, needs, and self-expression. Therapy is focused time to assist increasing your personal understanding of your life, past, and present. It can be for thinking about the future, too. Engaging with this process might feel challenging, especially if you are already feeling life’s pressures. And, with the world as it currently is, connecting with yourself and another person can feel especially exposing. Through this process of self-exploration, it can be that aspects of yourself that haven’t had the chance to come out yet get a chance to be considered. Experiences you haven’t been able to speak about before now, finally have a place to be voiced.
It is a process
Some reasons you might be here
When it becomes possible to feel the feelings which haven’t been able to be felt yet, it can free up energy in areas of your life you might not have expected. It can lead to a new way of doing things, of relating to others, and of being you. It is often that creativity is unlocked through this process. It is important that your therapist can ‘hold’ what you bring out during this journey.
There might be things which are blocking your ability to exist in a way that feels ‘livable’. You might be ‘numbed out’, or unable to take a step in any direction. Part of therapy can be about gently exploring how to move through this. This can assist with living in a way which feels more aligned with who you are – figuring yourself out at the same time as making changes where you can to support you living a life which best serves you.
Blog Highlights
Questions – when to move, and when to stay still
Knowing when to move, and when to stay still can be something that’s brought to therapy. It might be literal, in a practical sense – should I carry on attending work through this difficult time, or take the sick note and rest? It might relate to attention and thinking, about
Private therapy
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Struggling: The COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID and Lockdown – the impact on our mental health and wellbeing Are you struggling with how you feel at the moment? It’s easy to ‘minimise’, or not appreciate the impact of what we’re living through on how we feel, relate, and cope. I believe it’s important to remind ourselves
Christmas Resources
Christmas is often a difficult time for some people. It’s okay to feel sad and upset around the holidays. It’s a time of family, friends, togetherness. So, for those who’ve lost a loved one, or for people who don’t share happy memories about Christmas, it can be an isolating time.
Therapy – how might it be useful?
Therapy This short blog looks at a few ideas for how therapy can be useful. This includes the value of carving out ‘us’ time, the formal commitment, the relationship, and the potentially healing experience of acceptance. Starting by saying that therapy and how it’s experienced is individual, as individual as
Fight, Flight and Freeze
Fight or flight is an adrenaline-induced reaction to perceived, or actual threat. There has been less research about freeze than the other two responses. Here we look at these three responses, their purpose, and where they might be unhelpful, or inconvenient, in our daily lives. Fight or flight are states