Spiritual Counselling

What is your spiritual counselling approach?

I practise with a person-centred approach. This is a way of being that may facilitate spiritual self-enquiry directed by your own sense of agency. 

What is your training and experience?

I trained in spiritual counselling at the Sweet Track Centre in Somerset, and my teachers were practitioners from different faiths and traditions. This was a BACP approved 2-year diploma course with 480 guided learning hours plus 724 hours of personal study and 100 hours of supervised practice and 40 hours of personal therapy. I studied theoretical frameworks such as depth psychology, psychosynthesis, transpersonal psychology, mindfulness and buddhist psychology, and spiritual emergency, integrated with a core person-centred approach. I graduated in 2021 and have practised with many, many clients and practice as a full-time counsellor in registered private practice.

What is your spiritual background?

My own spiritual path is hodgepodge a bit like many people who didn't grow up in an overtly religious family. I've studied with zen monks, christian contemplatives, sufis, yogis, animists and many others. My faith fits somewhere in the ven diagram of many overlapping faiths, but ultimately I'm not a religious conservative and I walk a liberal, skeptical, and philosophical yet experiential path of spirituality. I'd say my personal spirituality is inclusive and based in love, humility, wonder, ecstasy and liberation. I hold space for deep reverence as well as playful irreverence.  

Are sessions religious?

Not necessarily. I am comfortable supporting you to use whatever terms and language that suits you best. I acknowledge that many institutions cause harm, and so I completely understand why someone would not be at ease with religion. Perhaps religion in its truest sense is about healing and wholeness, and might be seen as ancient, communal psychology with soul and spirit intact, however this is not always how it is shared or experienced. For many, experiences of religion can be mixed and even abusive and traumatic. 

Spiritual counselling is founded on faith that we are all spiritual beings, and that our lives have meaning, whether or not we belong to a religion.