A safe, confidential and reflective space where you can be heard, understood, and supported to make sense of what’s happening for you.
If you’re reading this, you might already be thinking about starting counselling. Taking that first step can feel daunting – and that’s completely understandable. For me, counselling is about creating a space where you can simply be yourself. A place where you don’t have to protect anyone else’s feelings or worry about being judged.
When you’re with me, I’ll really listen, not just to the words you say, but to what they mean for you. So often in life, we don’t feel truly heard or understood, and that can leave us feeling alone with our experiences. Being genuinely listened to and accepted can be deeply powerful and validating, and it’s often where change begins.
People come to counselling for many reasons: feeling anxious, low, stressed or overwhelmed; struggling with self-confidence or self-compassion; coping with grief or loss; or feeling hopeless about the state of the world. Sometimes relationship or family difficulties can leave us feeling unseen, unheard or disconnected. And at times, it’s simply a sense of being stuck or unmotivated, unsure how to move forward.
My approach is relational and integrative, grounded in Transactional Analysis (TA) but also drawing on other models of psychotherapy and counselling. Together, we’ll explore how your early experiences and the messages you received growing up have shaped the way you think, feel and relate to yourself and others today. These patterns often made perfect sense at the time – they helped you cope and understand your world – but may now be keeping you stuck in ways that are no longer helpful.
In our work together, we’ll look at how these patterns can be understood and gently reworked, helping you to build confidence, self-compassion and resilience. At other times, our focus may be more practical – using grounding, visualisation or self-soothing techniques to support you in managing the here and now.
Whatever approach we take, our relationship will be at the heart of the work. I aim to offer a space where you feel safe enough to explore, reflect and grow; a space that helps you feel more grounded, authentic and connected to yourself, so you can meet life’s challenges with greater ease, clarity and self-acceptance.
If you’d like to get a sense of what working together might feel like, please get in touch to arrange a free discovery session.