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What's Troubling You?
Are you struggling with how you feel, and how you feel about yourself? Is this impacting your sense of self, relationships and work? Perhaps you are having difficulty in an important relationship and looking for help with this.
I can help with making sense of complicated feelings and finding ways to talk about things that are difficult.
If you are feeling stuck, lost or confused we can work together to explore what's going on, how come, and find new ways forward.
Some of the kinds of things clients come to work with me about include:
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Feeling anxious, flat, angry, irritable or depressed
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Struggling with finding a sense of meaning and purpose in their lives
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Experiencing difficulties triggered by a life event, like a bereavement, career change or relationship breakdown
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Navigating changes in identity in becoming a parent, or adapting to the differing needs of children as they grow and become more independent
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Feeling overwhelmed by traumatic or distressing experiences from the past and their ongoing impacts on day to day to life
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Sometimes there is a sense that something is just not right and its hard to work out it what it is, leading to a sense of disconnection and dissatisfaction
These struggles present real opportunities to get to know yourself better, develop a kinder relationship with yourself and find new ways of relating with those around you and your circumstances. Through this there is potential to find deeper meaning and satisfaction in your life. I believe in this possibility wholeheartedly and the many ways change can unfold in the process of therapy.
How Therapy Can Help
I've been working as a therapist for 10 years and have worked with many people looking to improve their lives, relationships and sense of self.
Whilst each therapy process is as unique as you are, and when we begin there is no way of knowing where it will lead, there are some common things people tell me about how therapy with me has helped them:
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Anxiety becomes a now and again human experience and not the debilitating background normality they have been struggling with
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Greater confidence in having difficult conversations at work and in important relationships
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Increased sense of agency and power – a feeling of being able to do things, make change, take action about the things that matter to them
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Deeper intimacy and sense of connection in important relationships
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Confidence to make decisions, take risks and pursue goals
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Feeling more open, engaged and alive
About Me
Finding ways to live more fully, with creativity, depth and connection is my passion. I bring my warmth, curiosity and interest in what it is to be human into my work as a therapist. I believe in the power of relationship to bring about change in all kinds of seemingly stuck situations. Many of the difficulties that bring us to therapy have their roots in painful experiences in relationship and I recognise the great courage it takes to address these issues.
Engaging in therapy can be daunting, my hope is to offer a therapeutic relationship that supports you to develop greater connection with yourself, awareness in relationship with others and the potential for building a broader range of choices in your ways of being, relating and experiencing life.
What is Gestalt Therapy and How Could it Help You?
Gestalt Therapy and Counselling can help with a wide range of personal and social difficulties, including:
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Anxiety and depression
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Difficulties with expression or containing anger
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Relationship difficulties
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Feeling disconnected or stuck
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Addictions (substance and behaviours)
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Issues around fulfilment, life purpose and finding meaning
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Sexuality
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Burnout, stress and difficulties with work or caregiving responsibilities
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Making changes
Everyone is unique with individual challenges, gifts and stories and I am committed to working in a way that is in the service of your individual journey. Gestalt Therapy is a form of counselling or psychotherapy that is founded on a belief in people's innate capacity to grow, develop and change. This capacity supports us to know who we are, what we need and want and to live in relationship with ourselves and others.
Sometimes, this capacity gets interrupted and we may find that we go about our life in a limited or rigid way, feeling like there aren't many choices available in how we respond to the unpredictable nature life and our changing wants and needs. In Gestalt Therapy, we believe that developing awareness, experiencing and understanding more of how we feel, think and do can help us to regain our capacity to grow and change and live satisfying lives.
One of the great things about Gestalt Therapy is that it addresses the ways in which our experiences in the past, particularly childhood, shape the ways we see ourselves and live in the world now. We do more than just gain insight about this, we actively experiment with using that insight to make new choices and form new beliefs in the present, in the service of your future.
The flexibility and creativity of Gestalt Therapy means that there is lots of scope for us to draw on a range of methods and approaches during our working together. This can include working with art materials and objects, using movement and bodywork, as well as sitting and talking. I bring both support and challenge and my full engagement in our work together. You can read a more detailed blog post about my work here.
