About
Life can be unpredictable and often things are put in our paths that have an impact on our psychological and emotional wellbeing. Sometimes these issues can take their toll and cause us pain and suffering, partly due to pushing them to the back of our minds, bottling up or just trying to ignore them in the hope they may just go away.
Quite often we try to maintain a brave face and show the world that we can cope, but the reality is, when we ignore difficult experiences, feelings and thoughts they are trapped inside. They never really disappear, they stay just in the background within ourselves continuing to have an impact on our view of self, our relationships, our perception of the world and others.
You may have experienced an issue that is on your mind, or a difficulty has been triggered by a life event or a traumatic experience, such difficulties can affect your life and your relationships particularly when they haven't been processed. Left unexplored and unexpressed difficult life experience, feelings and emotions can impact our mental and physical health and further lead us to build and depend on unhealthy coping mechanisms.
A healthy alternative is to look after your emotional and psychological wellbeing by seeking therapy. Talking with a therapist can provide the opportunity to process and work through those difficulties and explore why they might be happening. Therapy also provides an opportunity to gain insight and awareness of yourself that you may not be aware of. With added insight things become clearer, you feel less stuck and your choices for coping and responding become broader and healthier.
Here is some things i thought you may like to know;
My Approach to Therapy...
Firstly, The Relationship with your therapist is critical.
Therapy is about creating a safe and trusting environment in which you are able to express yourself as freely and openly as possible, where your pain and happiness are both welcome. By being offered a space to be authentic and vulnerable you can truly begin to heal, when we feel truly seen and validated.
Therapy can be Transformational, and that’s what I am here for, the opportunity for you to bring the messy, unfiltered and stuck parts of you. The parts you have hidden from those around you, in therapy you can take that mask off. We often carry with us our past fears and wounds as well as our painful experiences, this can leave us feeling stuck and left living with many emotions and feelings that are overwhelming and often destructive. By exploring you and all of you, you gain an insight and awareness of yourself, your patterns of living, your ways of coping and managing that may not be working or alternatively are destructive to you. Therapy can provide information, alternative tools, choices and clarity. Therapy can be empowering and life changing and the reason for that is that you get to be, You.
As an Integrative Psychotherapist I am able to utilise and combine different theories and interventions, this has many benefits to this approach, but the most important to know now is that working Integratively enables me to provide the very best therapy for You, a completely individual approach, for you.
My Experience...
Throughout the accumulation of my experience since my initial graduation I have had the opportunity to work with young people and adults both in the public and private sectors. Working within these sectors I have worked with many individuals with different presenting issues and challenges they were faced with.
I have worked with people individually and in group settings, facilitating both structured and unstructured group therapy.
I have been faced with great opportunities to write and implement a number of programmes for local charitable organisations within Essex. These include; Building Self-Esteem, Stress & Anxiety, Relationships & Intimacy and lastly a 12 Week Relapse Prevention Programme for substance misuse.
I have a natural want to learn and understand people, the mind and life and this has led me to seek and complete many courses for both personal and professional knowledge and development. One of the courses I have achieved is a Diploma in Supervision, which has led me to broaden my practice to working with Trainees and qualified Counsellors and Psychotherapists. This further sparked an interest in the development and training of the Counselling field and I embarked on the journey of lecturing on a variety of levels of courses. These included a number of levels starting with Basic Counselling Skills to the BA Honours at a local College of Further and Higher Education in Partnership with the Open University.
Currently I practice within Hornchurch and Chelmsford, Essex and recently broadened the services I offer to online making therapy more accessible.
Services
Individual Counselling
Young person & Adolescent counselling
Online Counselling via Email, Zoom or Skype
Supervision - for trainee, newly qualified and qualified counsellor's and Psychotherapists.
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