Our journey through life provides us with a variety of experiences and we can find ourselves taking many different routes. Many of the routes link us to productive and positive outcomes but sometimes we may experience difficult periods which may involve anxiety, depression and emotional pain. It is during these periods that we may need to contact a professional to support us in finding ways to accept any challenges and find new ways to achieve a sense of purpose and growth.

The psychotherapuetic route offers a safe, professional and confidential space where you can talk about your life and anything that may be confusing, distressing or difficult. Whether there is an issue that arises out of your early life, or something troubling from a situation in the present, therapy provides an environment where you may tell your story and be heard by someone who is an experienced professional who will listen to you with attention, care and depth to enable you to consider your choices for your well being and your future.

Psychotherapy helps you to look inward in order to find greater inner ground and equilibrium and a deeper sense of self. From this place we are more able to engage with the world through meaningful and fulfilling relationships. It may create a space not only for increased emotional well being but also for connection to the spiritual.

Psychotherapy can help you explore, and work through or resolve a wide range of issues including anxieties arising in the past or present, childhood or recent trauma, depression, relationship difficulties, family issues, bereavement, difficulties and stress at work, spiritual crises, and many others. Each person’s context is unique and we will approach it in a way that allows you space and choice.

Working with mind, feelings, body and spirit

In my work I combine the psychotherapy approach with somatic experiencing, unless your choice is to do psychotherapy alone.

Psychosynthesis offers a holistic approach to living. It works with the mind, feelings, body and spirit and holds the context wherein each of us has the potential to unfold to our deepest sense of identity and purpose.

It is based on the work of Roberto Assagioli who, starting from the time of Freud and Jung, brought a new perspective to the field of psychology. He believed that while our childhood experience affects our present living, we also have within us the vast human potential for healing and change. When we repress this higher potential for wholeness, it can lead to debilitating symptoms, loss of meaning and psychological dis-ease which may add to, and be equal to, the distress arising out of childhood trauma.

In psychosynthesis psychotherapy and counselling we may explore the past in order to heal it and live more fully in the present, and we do this in the context of self discovery.

Painful symptoms of anxiety and depression, and feelings of loss and grief and of being stuck may be a doorway through to a more authentic sense of who we are and who we may be. We may find ourself in touch with an ever increasing capacity to express ourselves through fulfilling relationships, our creativity and connection to our purpose in life.

Psychosynthesis honours the pain and confusion we experience in times of psychological difficulty and crisis, while drawing on our spiritual nature and holding the potential for wholeness and transformation.