Psychotherapy, Consultation, Treatment
About Me
Welcome.
Are you looking for change and in need of help and support to create that change?
Maybe I can help.
I work holistically, with the whole person, and the whole of life. With our separateness and connectedness to others; with hopes, dreams, and suffering. My approach blends the wisdom of ancient teachings with the most contemporary theory and practice in depth psychology and neuroscience. I help individuals, couples, and groups to understand themselves more deeply, communicate more effectively, cultivate inner power and freedom, and come closer to realising their potential, whatever that may be.
As confidante and guide I walk alongside my clients in whatever capacity they need on a ‘road less travelled’.
I am based in Suffolk and work both online and face-to-face.
My Qualifications
- MA Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy (Middx) www.psychosynthesis.org
- UKCP accreditation
- Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist: Trauma and body psychotherapy: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, Boulder Colorado
- Member APP – Association of Psychospiritual Psychotherapy
- PG Dip: Counselling
- PG Dip: Psychotherapy
- Dip: Clinical Supervision and Consultancy
- Further training: The Centre for Child Mental Health; CBT model; Personal Performance Coaching; Right Relations
- BA Contemporary Cultural Studies (Middx Polytechnic)
- MA Communication Culture & Society (Goldsmiths)
- Workshops (What You May Be) personal and professional development programmes
- Former tutor/trainer: CPCAB Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling.
- Cert Education Teacher training. Over 25 years’ experience in education
Psychotherapy
Life throws up many challenges especially in our health and our relationships, and whether we are alone or sharing our life with someone, we can experience fear… doubt; the deepest love… the darkest hatred; we can feel lost… and belong; find joy for life but also experience addiction, depression and paralysing anxiety. There are times when we grow and thrive but other times when we can feel destroyed by what happens to us, and around us. Ruin and break down often precede transformation.
As we move from one stage of life to another our relationship to ourselves, others, and the world calls us to heal from past traumas, mature internally and externally, and address the ‘crazy’ places we can inhabit as human beings. Before we can move on with our lives we often have to examine the details of how we are living, break habits and heal the past.
If you want to do more than just ‘survive’; transform your relationships; or just need help with some of life’s dilemmas; please do get in touch. Counselling can help with immediate distress and the deeper work of psychotherapy can bring real and lasting transformation.
Individual
Imagine finding a peace and contentment that seeps into your bones, a place within you that sustains you regardless of what comes your way. Imagine feeling seen, valued, a sense of knowing your path.
The way we are cared for and related to early in life, our role models, for better or worse, affect the way we manage the trials and tribulations of our lives thereafter. The way we form and experience relationships, our capacity to give and receive love, even how close we get to reaching our potential, is part of that same mix. Living in a frantic world with its many demands complicates this further.
Life is not a finished product and what we need changes along the way. In each moment we are unfolding to more and more of who we are and can be. What we ‘lack’ we already have deep within us and part of the journey is to ‘rediscover’ this, to find the meaning and purpose of our life. A life worth living.
Counselling suits short term work and can help to alleviate immediate distress, but for those willing to commit to a longer process, the deeper work of psychotherapy can bring about real life-changing transformation and healing.
Couples
None of us come ‘ready’ and ‘perfect’ for relationship or marriage. We learn as we go along, most often in times of struggle, when old traumas are re-awakened and the cycle of conflict returns again. But we live our lives in relationship, and whether shy, extrovert, wealthy or poor, without connection we can feel empty and that life is meaningless.
Intimate relationship of all kinds urges us to mature, compelling us to examine who we are and what we want. It’s where we truly get to discover ourselves; our hopes, fears, our longings and often what we lack. It is also through relationship we heal.
You can deepen your awareness; communicate more authentically, create something new and change direction, if that is what you want.
Themes
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- Stilling the mind/Mindfulness
- Improving attention
- Managing anger
- Coping with anxiety/uncertainty
- Managing loss, change & redundancy
- Transforming addictions
- Good endings & new beginnings
- Uncovering and working with emotion
- Managing anger and its triggers (in place of)
- Working through loss, change, redundancy
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- Effective listening
- Opening to empathy
- Holding boundaries
- Containing conflict/conflict resolution
- Developing compassion
- Flexible thinking
- Non-violent communication
- Assertion without aggression
- Giving/receiving feedback
- Opening the heart
- Understanding defences
- Uncovering and transforming destructive patterns
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- Understanding & managing your creative process
- Unblocking Will
- Unlocking potential
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- Trauma
- Developmental Injury
- Attachment Issues
- Addictions
- Deep wounding
- Shame
- Guilt
- Broken relationships
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- Exploring the Buddhist notion of ‘Right Relationship’; with self and the world
- Integrity, stability, beauty, wonder, love
- Deepening connection to faith and/or spirituality
- Deepening connection to Self
- Exploring Being and transcendence
- Personal power, personal impact
- Power with responsibility
- I-thou relationship
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- Finding meaning purpose and value in your life
- Hearing the call
- Exploring what’s needed, what needs to change
Supervision
Supervision is a ‘relationship of care’ with a specific purpose, that is to provide a dependable time place and process, where issues and dilemmas encountered by professionals, who work alone or as part of teams, can be resolved confidentially, safely and supportively.
Such a space is not only essential for critical reflection and the exploration of concerns and problems but also a place to play with ideas and discover new and creative ways to handle the psychological dynamics that exist within us and between us.
It can grow into a long and profound relationship with the potential to restore enthusiasm and motivation, remind us of our passion for the work we have chosen, and sometimes help us to see when we need rest or change.
When we are well and enjoying our lives, those who live and work with us are affected by the ripples.