How I work
Working online through a secure web platform (such as Zoom, Teams, Skype etc) when I first meet you as a client, my aim is to help you find ways to settle a little into being with me. I provide a welcoming online space where you can begin to focus on your therapeutic needs with me - as much you feel ready to. My aim is that a trusting relationship can develop between us. I know this can take time.
From a secure base of our sessions, we can begin to explore what brings you to therapy, what you are struggling with, and your hopes for the life you want to live. I believe it is also important to explore what you are interested in, good at, what you enjoy, your resources, what brings you alive.
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I tune into your experience - mind, body, emotions, beliefs. I value your individuality and diversity, and the importance of understanding the relationships and contexts in which you find yourself. I am interested in what has happened in your life, how you experience it, the impact of the past on your life, your relationships with others and with yourself, and what you make of it. We can also focus together on what occurs in our sessions to understand what’s going on for you now within you and between us. This allows new elements of your awareness to emerge.
Understand Different Parts of Your Experience
Do you ever find yourself asking the question ‘Why did I do that?’ Or, ‘Why does one part of me want one thing, then another part does the opposite?’
I recognise that we all have different parts of ourselves as human beings, different aspects of who we are, different roles we adopt. Sometimes we are aware of different aspects of who we are and sometimes not. Sometimes it is hard to accept or even tolerate parts of ourselves that we want to get rid of or disown.
With compassion, I encourage you to become curious about which parts of your experience, which emotions, might be blocking you. I hold the belief that you are the expert in your own life, and that you have within you what you need. My role is to help you discover and access your own understandings.
Some questions you might like to consider...
- What do I need to understand, accept or change in my life?
- With what part or parts of me and my experience would I like a better relationship?
- What am I hoping for from therapy?
It may be that your current difficulties are affected by past sufferings. Your early life experiences, attachments and touchstone memories might continue to influence your internal relationships and perceptions of parts of yourself and others in the present. These may be influencing your hopes and or fears for your future.
I understand mental health diagnoses, of course, and I also recognise that people need more than a diagnosis to fully understand the different aspects of their experience in order to overcome their struggles. I work with you as person, and together we can discuss and plan how I can best help you.
