Body Speaks Counselling & Psychodynamic Therapy

About

Hello,

Welcome to my page. To find out more about me you can visit my Body Speaks web site.
You can get in touch with me, preferably by via my website.

A first session with me is £35.
There after I charge a sliding scale.

About my work with you,

Integrative counselling looks at the whole person, taking into account your mental and emotional needs. I will use techniques and tools from different modalities to tailor an individual approach for you.

I work holistically with the whole person, with mind, body and soul. I have worked a lot with integrating shadow aspects which enable us to become more balanced and integrate our fragmented parts which we all have.

Imbalances are our minds and hearts way of letting us know that there is something that needs addressing in our lives. I work in the present moment, with present moment issues, but I also work on past issues as well as past trauma that still effects us. Looking at how we can change patterns.

I have worked with PTSD and CPTSD, co-dependency, relationship complexities, anxiety, depression, sexual abuse, anger management, general self awareness and bereavement.

You are never wrong with how you feel, so please never feel ashamed, at points in our lives we need the guidance of others to help us step over hurdles and to hold our hand through the hard times. I see all hurdles as opportunities for greater growth and to gain healthy minds and hearts.

Some of the approaches I use:

CBT is more about offering tools. It is a psycho-social intervention that aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions, primarily depression and anxiety disorders. But it does not necessarily work on the deeper motivations and issues. I do not specialise in this but I have basic training in this area.

I specialise in:

Psychodynamic approach which works more on the unconscious and past trauma/childhood. The psychodynamic approach includes all the theories in psychology that see human functioning based upon the interaction of drives and forces within the person, particularly unconscious, and between the different structures of the personality.

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The Person Centered approach  "Originally described as non-directive, this therapy moved away from the idea that the therapist was the expert and towards a theory that trusted the innate tendency (known as the actualizing tendency) of human beings to find fulfilment of their personal potentials. An important part of this theory is that in a particular psychological environment, the fulfilment of personal potentials includes sociability, the need to be with other human beings and a desire to know and be known by other people. It also includes being open to experience, being trusting and trustworthy, being curious about the world, being creative and compassionate".

I also include meditation and some of the more spiritual aspects into the sessions where needed. I am happy to explore through art if that is something a client would like I also use inner child work, mirror work and Jungians shadow work.

It is not only the body that needs hygiene and healthy foods, so does our minds and our hearts.

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