How I work
I offer a setting where you can talk about your feelings, memories, thoughts and dreams. I incorporate different therapeutic approaches and ways of thinking into my work to help me best meet the needs of each individual client.
My therapeutic training was primarily from an existential perspective. Existential therapy is about understanding your experience of living - what it means to be you. In the therapy room I would be looking to explore how you make sense of your life and your relationships, what you feel your strengths and limitations are, as well as your possibilities and choices; in essence, it is about helping you discover who you are and who you can be.
I also work from a psychodynamic perspective which is mainly concerned with how our early childhood experiences affect the way we live our lives as adults. This involves the idea that our current relationships and ways of being are influenced by what has happened to us in the past and the sense we made of this at the time. I am particularly interested in patterns we repeat in adult relationships which are often learnt in childhood, but may no longer be helpful, and even play a large part in maintaining our current problems.
By recognising these patterns and understanding what triggers them, we are in a better position to work out new ways of thinking and acting that can help us lead a more fulfilling life.
Tel - 07939 250929