I am a supportive and empathetic therapist, who provides a safe, non-judgmental and confidential environment for clients to explore their difficulties. I believe that the experience of sharing difficult feelings can make a real difference and I believe that my role is to listen and to never judge.

My Approach to Counselling

I have a "Humanistic Person-Centred" approach to supporting you.

This means that:

•  I seek to provide warmth and empathy;
•  I endeavour not to analyse or judge, simply to engage in your experience with you;
•  I believe that through gaining a deeper understanding of your experience we can uncover the potential for  for  change.

Apart from using Person Centred Counselling I believe that in order to develop as a counsellor and to meet the needs of my clients I have found it necessary to understand and incorporate my own philosophy, theory, and practice.  During my training I studied the use of different approaches and in my experience found that therapy can be tailored to suit the needs of the client.  Every person and their process is unique and we all have the ability to grow and for change to occur.  I believe change and growth can continue to occur through the unlocking of past experience and insight into unconscious behaviour, which occurs in the counselling relationship.  Counselling can help to shift stuck emotions and to assist the client to move forward into more balanced emotional experiences.

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