COUNSELLING & THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES 

You don’t need to know which type of therapy or technique you need before getting in touch.

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I work integratively, which means that rather than applying the same approach to everyone, I draw on my training and experience according to you as an individual, what you bring to therapy and what feels most helpful for our work together.

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At the heart of my work are Person-Centred and Psychodynamic approaches. I may also incorporate other therapeutic techniques where appropriate, and I have additional specialist training in Clinical Hypnotherapy and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT).

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Person-Centred Counselling​

Person-Centred therapy places you and your individual experience at the centre of our work.

​​I offer warmth, empathy, respect and genuineness, creating a space where you can explore your thoughts and feelings without judgement. Through greater self-understanding and acceptance, we can support growth, change and a stronger connection with your authentic self.

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Psychodynamic Counselling

Psychodynamic therapy helps us consider how past experiences, relationships and patterns may be influencing the way you feel, think and relate to yourself and others today.​

Together, we may explore patterns that have developed throughout your life, including thoughts, feelings and ways of relating that you may not previously have been fully aware of.​

The aim isn’t to remain focused on the past, but to understand its influence so that it can have less power over how you experience your life in the present.​

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Clinical Hypnotherapy

I am also a qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist.

​Hypnotherapy can be used alongside counselling or as a therapeutic approach in its own right, depending on what brings you to therapy and what feels appropriate for you.

​Where helpful, hypnotherapy may involve relaxation, imagery, suggestion and focused therapeutic exploration. Any use of hypnotherapy would be discussed with you first and incorporated collaboratively rather than automatically forming part of counselling.

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Hypnotherapy is very effective to help connect with your internal thoughts and feelings more readily and to feel more in control to move past ingrained patterns of thinking. It can offer support for you to think about something in a different way. To experience something more positively, with more ease and let go of what's not serving you. 

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Emotional Freedom Therapy (EFT)

I also have training in Emotional Freedom Therapy, sometimes known as tapping, which can be incorporated where appropriate. This is a method that combines gentle fingertip tapping on Chinese meridian acupressure points with spoken phrases addressing emotional or physical stress. It draws on concepts from acupuncture, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and exposure therapy to help calm the amygdala (the brains fear centre) and regulate the nervous system

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Children & Young Person's Counsellor (11+)

I am a trained Children's and Young Person Counsellor. I'm mindful of building trust and demonstrating my own genuineness with young people. I have a range of techniques and exercises we can do together, such drawing and play therapy. These help facilitate young people to be comfortable to open up and share their inner world, process their feelings and explore how they can become more empowered. 

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Other ways we may work

Depending on you and what you find helpful, I may draw upon elements of mindfulness, calming the nervous-system, psychoeducation, creative approaches and CBT-informed techniques.

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Gestalt techniques, such as chair work, may also be used to explore internal conflict, different parts of yourself or relationship difficulties.

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The important thing is that you don’t need to select a technique from a list. We begin with you.

Together, we can develop an understanding of what you are experiencing, where it may have come from, what is maintaining it now and what might support meaningful change.