Approach

I am trained in multiple therapeutic modalities, primarily humanistic, while also drawing on psychodynamic and other integrative approaches. At the heart of my practice is a guiding ethical commitment to the person-centred approach.

Person-centred therapy is a scientifically evidenced and well established 'organismic psychology' that strongly upholds the autonomy, resources and intelligence of you as a whole person. For the therapy client, this approach may be experienced as clarifying and challenging as well as empowering. 

Person-centred therapy belongs to the field of Positive Psychology and is a relational stance that supports your process of personal growth and development. You may be supported to explore how you relate to yourself, others, culture, ecosystems, and even spirituality or creative practice. It is a flexible, humane and collaborative way of working that includes both our knowledges and experiences. Every therapeutic relationship is as unique as the client and practitioner working together. 

As a person-centred practitioner, I believe that my role is to listen compassionately to your feelings and needs, and to try to resonate and imagine deeply what may be happening in your life. This is a kind of slow, contemplative listening where personal judgement and criticism are simply not on the agenda. My focus is to share congruently what I am tracking in your experience and my own, so that we can form a reflective, insightful relationship based on clarity, honesty and mutual trust. 

Professional research, cross-disciplinary discourses, lived experience, and humility in relation to Other ways of knowing and experiencing, informs how I assist you in exploring yourself and your world. Therapy is an opportunity to understand and value yourself, your needs, your dreams, your potential. Your therapeutic process will not be a pre-designed formula or recipe for success from a textbook. Therapy is not a transactional product that you can simply purchase; it's a human-to-human relationship held in an ethical, professional therapeutic frame. 

Whilst decades of authoritative research asserts the effectiveness of talking therapies, more contemporary critical psychology identifies that there are structural barriers to wellbeing for many people. My practice is critically engaged, and therefore I do not promise any particular outcomes of therapy, given social, political and economic realities that impact so many of us. However, I do offer a regular time and space to be accompanied and supported through whatever you are going through, for as long as you feel this service is useful. Usually, we'll be able to tell within the first five sessions if therapy is beneficial for you, and if you want to continue.

If this sounds like something that interests you, please feel free to reach out.