Individual Psychotherapy/Counselling

Who is it for?

People seek counselling or psychotherapy for many reasons. These may include feelings of anxiety or depression. At any time of life we may struggle with external events such as job loss, illness, parenthood, divorce, retirement and aging. It may be the continuing struggle with early childhood traumas and abuse or it may be a difficulty with an intimate relationship.

Often however, there is nothing specific that seems to be causing someone pain and suffering. Chronic feelings of unhappiness, despair and depression frequently persist without obvious reasons or causes. Some people simply feel that they are drifting and would like a deeper sense of purpose and meaning in their lives.

Questions of how we understand and live in a world where there is global climate crisis and gross economical inequality address issues beyond the purely personal, but can leave us, as individuals, feeling angry, powerless or defeated.

What happens?

I work collaboratively with individuals to explore, understand and create meaning from the painful emotional and psychological difficulties they may be experiencing. Among the therapeutic methods used are creative visualisation, free drawing, training of the will, physical expression, writing and meditation. These approaches can help to contact the profound wisdom that lies within us.

Individual therapy focuses not only on you as an individual but also the context in which you live. That context includes the social, political, cultural and spiritual world, as much as the psychological.  

Psychotherapy is a process, which seeks to support you in gaining an increased capacity for choice, through which you may become more autonomous and self-determined. With this comes the potential to enjoy good relationships with others, to be calm even in moments of crisis, to be open to serenity and joy and to love and be loved.

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