Compassionate and Creative Counselling
Counselling services
I provide registered counselling talking therapy services for individual adults. I'm an integrative counsellor, which means I weave together a number of approaches to best suit your needs.
No one is as unique as you, hence the approach will be bespoke and tailored, just for you.
Counselling theories are our tools or 'toys.' Having as wide a selection as necessary gives us space to play, wonder, experience and 'be' together. It is creating this space in the relationship that allows ongoing development of experience, transformation and compassionate understanding of self.
Alongside this, to respect and welcome your entire self, I provide creative-working, certified Sandplay therapy and play-based working. This makes for a truly integrative, holistic approach, guided and informed by research.
Expect to experience yourself, just as you are, honoured and met.
Integrative Counselling
I am a registered counsellor for adults and am also qualified as a children and young persons counsellor. This is very important in meeting you, as it helps me understand how we humans develop as relational and individual beings across the lifespan.
You can expect a true understanding of needs that were met, needs that were not, difficulties relating to yourself, difficulties relating to others.
Here, it makes sense! And you make sense, too!
This is how change becomes transformative, curious, playful. An opportunity for something new.
Sandplay Therapy
I provide certified Sandplay Therapy, an innovative and research-led way to work with gentle kindness exploring areas which can be difficult to approach with traditional talking therapy.
Our brain can go 'offline' when we are highly dysregulated. There is no narrative, verbalised story or memory encoded. Talking therapy would be impossible, not able to touch these triggering memories.
I get this! I believe you.
Here is where sand, symbols and creative materials and media come in. Let us journey through non-verbal memories and experiences that cannot be verbalised, creating new and healing experiences as we go.
You will always find my focus to be on safety, stability and gentleness. A pace and distance that suits you and feels comfy and regulating.
Interested or curious? Do get in touch.
Holistic working
We can tend to live, re-live, repeat, recycle... living legacies of our pasts.
I listen at depth, beyond the narrative you may have told many times before.
Here, we can be curious about the story no one has yet heard. The story of not just what you've been through and are going through, but how you adapted and survived!
Do you struggle with toxic shame? A sadly very common experience and exceptionally painful. Listening compassionately in this way, paying attention to the way we hold traumas in our breath and body, undercuts and eliminates shame, as we appreciate our attempts to survive.
What did your brain, body and nervous system have to do to stay regulated?
Let's wonder together and appreciate the adaptations. Perhaps finding new ones... learn to notice triggering, expanding our ability to soothe and calm as we travel.
Interested in my counselling services?
I am here to help!
I am interested in hearing your requirements to find out how best to help.
I am here to be a kind witness on your path. Do get in touch today to find out more.
Your enquiry is welcome!
