My Approach
Therapy provides an opportunity to explore your personality and identify patterns of behaviour. It is a process that aims to nurture understanding and identify difficulties in ways of relating to others. My approach is to help facilitate that process through a collaborative therapeutic relationship. Together we work to explore troublesome, limiting beliefs and feelings that can cause depression, anxiety and destructive behaviours effecting work, relationships and general enjoyment of life.
I explore the connection between current day issues and how they might be rooted in the past. How early experiences can later lead to repeating patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour that can be troubling. It is often entirely unconscious and as a result very compulsive and perplexing. By bringing awareness as well understanding to these unconscious processes it is possible to slowly gain clarity and control over them. This process has the potential to create greater self-awareness and an improved sense of self.
At the core of any therapy is the relationship with the therapist, and as a result it is important to feel that you are being supported on your journey through therapy. I offer a warm and empathic space where we work together on your difficulties. It is also not unusual for the difficulties you experience elsewhere in your life to also manifest with your therapist. This is very common and to be expected. It is also an opportunity to bring alive the issues affecting you in therapy and work more directly with them. This is not always easy, but is a tremendously helpful way to work with difficulties first-hand within a supportive environment.
Therapy provides an opportunity to explore your personality and identify patterns of behaviour. It is a process that aims to nurture understanding and identify difficulties in ways of relating to others. My approach is to help facilitate that process through a collaborative therapeutic relationship. Together we work to explore troublesome, limiting beliefs and feelings that can cause depression, anxiety and destructive behaviours effecting work, relationships and general enjoyment of life.
I explore the connection between current day issues and how they might be rooted in the past. How early experiences can later lead to repeating patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour that can be troubling. It is often entirely unconscious and as a result very compulsive and perplexing. By bringing awareness as well understanding to these unconscious processes it is possible to slowly gain clarity and control over them. This process has the potential to create greater self-awareness and an improved sense of self.
At the core of any therapy is the relationship with the therapist, and as a result it is important to feel that you are being supported on your journey through therapy. I offer a warm and empathic space where we work together on your difficulties. It is also not unusual for the difficulties you experience elsewhere in your life to also manifest with your therapist. This is very common and to be expected. It is also an opportunity to bring alive the issues affecting you in therapy and work more directly with them. This is not always easy, but is a tremendously helpful way to work with difficulties first-hand within a supportive environment.
Sessions are conducted face to face or can be on the couch for long-term open ended therapy.