Approach

I am trained in multiple therapeutic modalities, and my heart is in the person-centred approach. Person-centred therapy is a scientifically evidenced and well established way of practising that attends to the autonomy and responsive intelligence of the body in relationship with people, culture, ecosystems, and even spirituality. It is a flexible approach, and every therapy experience is as unique as the client and the therapist working together.

As a therapist, 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 and heart-connected listening where personal judgement and criticism are simply not on the agenda. Research from psychology and cross-disciplinary discourses, lived experience, and humility in relation to other ways of knowing and experiencing, informs my empathic understanding, our psychological contact, and my way of accompanying you and responding with my thoughts, suggestions and ethical curiosities. 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. 

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 biased research widely announces the effectiveness of all kinds of therapies, more contemporary critical psychology identifies that there are structural barriers to wellbeing for many people. My practise 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 needed. 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.