COULD YOU BENEFIT FROM pSYCHOTHERAPY?
Whether you are distressed about a specific problem - e.g., difficulties in a relationship or job, anxiety, anger management, bereavement - or struggling with more generalised depression, lack of will, or a feeling that life’s “just not working”, you may want to seek help from a psychotherapist. It can be a courageous decision to enter therapy - I offer a respectful space in which we can work at your pace, in a manner that honours your needs and inner wisdom.
My approach:
I work integrally, incorporating client-centred, narrative, solution focused and body aware modalities depending on what is most appropriate to your needs. However, my primary therapeutic models are Core Process Psychotherapy and Psychosynthesis.
The context for this work is my belief in the value and vast potential, both practical and spiritual, of each individual. This in turn is informed by many years in the business world as well as experience of living and working in different cultures - very little surprises me!
Core Process Psychotherapy is an in-depth, longer form of psychotherapy which is based in mindfulness of emerging processes. It draws on both Western psychodynamic theories as well as Buddhist concepts about the way the mind works.
It is relational and body-oriented, and presupposes that at our ground, or “core”, we are perfectly healthy, but that this health becomes obscured to us by our life experience and conditioning. When we become mindful, we make space to witness how this happens, and we begin to meet the world from a place of inner ground rather than of reactivity, without constantly repeating old patterns.
Core Process Psychotherapy
Psychosynthesis
Psychosynthesis is a transpersonal psychotherapy, which means that it assumes that we are more than our problems and personality, that we have immense potential for growth and development. We can get stuck in our subpersonalities, the many parts of ourselves that come to the fore in different circumstances, like the inner critic, the “good girl or boy”, the rebel and, of course, the inner child. Psychosynthesis helps us “disidentify” from these subpersonalities so that we can have choice around how we are in the world.
Both Core Process Psychotherapy and Psychosynthesis are primarily talking therapies, but can employ other approaches as well, such as working with imagery, free drawing, gestalt techniques and other creative means which can be brought into the therapy space to illuminate deeper patterns. I also integrate energy healing into my work, using intuition to identify and clear blocks to healthy functioning. This form of working can reach parts that talking sometimes can’t, through the dynamic interplay among the energy fields of the client, the therapist, and the wider energy fields which impact us.