Therapeutic process
Counselling provides the opportunity to work towards living in a more resourceful and satisfying way during times of distress, confusion, choice or change. This is achieved by giving you the respect, attention and time necessary to explore, discover and clarify ways of increasing your well-being and quality of life.
Counselling aims to facilitate not advise, the intention being not to prescribe solutions, but to assist you in using your own personal resources to examine your difficulties and the choices you have for dealing with those difficulties. With confidentiality and respect for your own perception of experience, you will be supported and guided towards finding your own solutions.
theoretical approach
You determine your own needs, as I believe you to be the expert on yourself. I bring my expertise to the counselling process, but ultimately you decide what you find useful and what you do not. In this way you need never feel out of control with your own personal therapy.
Being an Integrative therapist, I have found truth in all theories I have studied, and will bring these to the counselling process in the way I feel they best suit you. I do not believe one orientation suits all, and will therefore adapt my therapeutic approach to meet your individual needs. I do have particular interest and training working from a Cognitive-Behavioural and Transactional Analysis perspective, specialising in Inner Child Work, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy.
