Psychotherapy and Counselling
I am a psychotherapist in Private Practice offering an integrative approach based on a foundation in Psychosynthesis, a Body – Feelings – Mind – Spirit psychotherapy, transpersonal psychology. The growth of your potential and the emergence of your unique spiritual presence, your Self, is soul work. It is also a psychotherapy of Will, the energy that propels you on your pathway of self realisation.
Follow this link to find out more:
https://www.psychosynthesis.org/about/what-is-psychosynthesis/
What is drawing you to my site?
It may be that you are feeling down or anxious and life seems tedious or you feel you can't go on. It could be you feel distance or discomfort in relationships with others and would like to feel more connected and cared for. Considering counselling or psychotherapy is a significant step in choosing to value and invest in yourself by feeling seen and thereby enriching your experience in the world. Possibly you wish to expand your self-awareness in a purposeful and thoughtful way, to activate your will for the work of transforming your life.
Choosing psychosynthesis therapy or counselling with me gives you a still point in a turning world in which to experience yourself in your wholeness; as a physical, emotional, social, spiritual Being with innate potential.
As a Psychotherapist with an MA in Psychosynthesis, I guide you through this creative and worthwhile experience. I am currently open to taking referrals for weekly in person or online sessions of psychotherapy or counselling. Sessions offered are supervised as per standards set out for UKCP registered practitioners. I support a range of personal difficulties such as:
- Addiction and OCD tendencies
- Anxiety and rumination
- Bereavement, loss and separation
- Boarding school syndrome
- Depression and low mood / mood swings
- Eating disorders and self-harm behaviours
- Loneliness and feelings of isolation
- Overwhelm and burnout
- Post traumatic stress and complex PTSD
- Relationship difficulties
- Search for meaning in life and more fulfilment
- Sex problems and sexual identity
How does my journey of development assist the journey you may embark on?
It is my great privilege to value and respect another person by acknowledging your soulful Self in which we find the grain of sand that is your essence. I strive to nourish and enrich your essence and to assist you on your journey of self-actualisation. My role as a psychotherapist is to guide you to find your own unique direction supported by an inner source of wisdom.
Psychotherapy has helped me personally and, experience as well as formal learning enriches my Practice as an integrative approach informed by Psychodynamic principles, Systemic Family Therapy and Orgfanisation Management, Dance and Movement and Somatic Experiencing. Through offering coaching and career counselling to individuals over 30 years, I have assisted many people from all walks of life to grow and develop.
My experience
Through surviving a near death experience my awakening to life brought clarity about my purpose and opening to Self; this led to choosing to train as a psychotherapist. In recovery from that sea accident, I managed pain without medication by drawing on an inner resilience which comes from contemplative practice, meditation as well as the Iyengar tradition from which my yoga teaching emanates.
Through living and working in both Third World and First World countries, I absorbed differing cultural norms to transition between ways of being; using this exposure to enrich my identity. While educated at boarding school, I suffered anguish on separation from my parents and the family unit; this enables me to assist those who suffer aloneness.
Through having children, I am familiar with the joys, responsibilities and hardships. I am familiar with sexual and gender identity issues and sex problems in relationships.
Through offering psychological support to my family for close relatives in recovery from substance addiction, eating disorder and self harming behaviour, I am familiar with depression, anxiety and coping mechanisms for survival in the darkest moments.
Through the Triratna Buddhist movement, I feel held by a sense of belonging to the community, enriching my meditation practice; supporting my living life with mindful awareness and metta bhavana.
Please see my profiles on Counselling Directory and Psychology Today for more detail about my practice.
I am inspired by this poem:
I will not die an unlived life
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.
Dawna Markova from "I will not Die an Unlived Life:
Reclaiming Purpose and Passion" Conara Press, 2000