Psychotherapy - Cultivating Wholeness
Psychotherapy is based on establishing a relationship with a therapist who will listen to your story and help you to cultivate wholeness in your life.
Psychotherapy sessions offer time to explore the patterns you are bringing in to your everyday relationships,where those patterns are serving you well and where you may need to make changes. As therapist, I attune to these dynamics and also keep an eye on what may be the ‘emerging future’ in your life and in the situations you bring to and discuss in your work with me.
Clients often bring issues like these to work with - or they emerge in our sessions. I am familiar with and comfortable working with all the following;:
Anxiety Depression
Life Transitions Personal Growth
Loss and Bereavement Relationship issues
Abuse Neglect
Identity issues Concerns about parenting
I have been privileged to work with many people and accompany them in this process. I remain very struck by the changes that can occur in a person's life as a result of their willingness to honestly reflect on the patterns and relationships in their lives - both past and present. Often what emerges is a realisation that they can once again, or perhaps for the first time, connect to the joy of being alive. This , I believe, is one of the greatest gifts of this work.
How I work
For me, psychotherapy can be both a talking and a movement practice. I have sat with and moved with many people in the therapeutic realtionship over the years.
I work by listening, reflecting back what I hear and making connections with what I have heard before. I encourage people to become aware of, and record, their dreams as this is a wonderful way of working with the psyche.
I often invite people to move with the sensations in their body, to listen and respond to the ever-changing condition of their body and of the environment in which we work. These are simple, daily-life movements - - walking, stretching, bending, witnessing how we move in the space we are in. This is a very helpful way to see one's own patterns in life.
Working in this way, being contained and accompanied by me in the therapeutic relationship, alongside the containment and witnessing which the environment offers , you may come to see where you can effect change in your life. This usually will have an impact on your relationships with your self and others -- and even on the other-than-human relationships which also affect our lives.
What is required
Psychotherapy requires commitment to the self and a desire to take responsibility for one’s own life. For people who are able to bring this commitment, the work, while it can be difficult, can also be fun, light-hearted, supportive and a real catalyst for change.
Psychotherapy sessions offer time to explore the patterns you are bringing in to your everyday relationships,where those patterns are serving you well and where you may need to make changes. As therapist, I attune to these dynamics and also keep an eye on what may be the ‘emerging future’ in your life and in the situations you bring to and discuss in your work with me.
Clients often bring issues like these to work with - or they emerge in our sessions. I am familiar with and comfortable working with all the following;:
Anxiety Depression
Life Transitions Personal Growth
Loss and Bereavement Relationship issues
Abuse Neglect
Identity issues Concerns about parenting
I have been privileged to work with many people and accompany them in this process. I remain very struck by the changes that can occur in a person's life as a result of their willingness to honestly reflect on the patterns and relationships in their lives - both past and present. Often what emerges is a realisation that they can once again, or perhaps for the first time, connect to the joy of being alive. This , I believe, is one of the greatest gifts of this work.
How I work
For me, psychotherapy can be both a talking and a movement practice. I have sat with and moved with many people in the therapeutic realtionship over the years.
I work by listening, reflecting back what I hear and making connections with what I have heard before. I encourage people to become aware of, and record, their dreams as this is a wonderful way of working with the psyche.
I often invite people to move with the sensations in their body, to listen and respond to the ever-changing condition of their body and of the environment in which we work. These are simple, daily-life movements - - walking, stretching, bending, witnessing how we move in the space we are in. This is a very helpful way to see one's own patterns in life.
Working in this way, being contained and accompanied by me in the therapeutic relationship, alongside the containment and witnessing which the environment offers , you may come to see where you can effect change in your life. This usually will have an impact on your relationships with your self and others -- and even on the other-than-human relationships which also affect our lives.
What is required
Psychotherapy requires commitment to the self and a desire to take responsibility for one’s own life. For people who are able to bring this commitment, the work, while it can be difficult, can also be fun, light-hearted, supportive and a real catalyst for change.