counselling

Achieve Meaningful, Long-Term Change

I provide a genuinely supportive and empathic presence that helps people to accept themselves for who they are while exploring the changes they want to make in their lives. The other thing that I feel strongly about is helping you to go beyond your everyday thinking patterns-so you can be free to discover and work with new ways of meeting the challenges of life and being human.

Bridging the Gap

My approach to counselling is based on the belief that inside, we already have most of the answers we need, and by working with a deeper awareness of thoughts, feelings, behavior, and bodily experiences, we can tap into this inner wisdom, or insight. Increasing this kind of self-awareness is often an important step toward change.

Most of the methods I employ aim to assist you in becoming aware of the underlying basis for your behavioral patterns, as well as limiting thoughts and beliefs. I assist you in shifting your attention to other aspects of your experience, such as the body sensations and emotions that normally accompany your conscious thought patterns, but remain outside of your everyday awareness. This serves to bridge the gap between unconscious and conscious, and in doing so, moves you beyond an intellectual, “in-your-head” understanding toward a whole understanding that will promote real and lasting change.

Switch off Your Auto Pilot

By shifting your attention to places other than your ordinary thinking patterns, counselling can create possibilities for change more profound than that brought about by staying in the conversational mode of day-to-day life. From this different vantage point, you are better able to change your stories about who you believe you are. Change on the outside then becomes easier.

Techniques and methods used to guide you to these places are always dependent on individual needs, but include and are drawn from:

Focussing Technique

Ego State Therapy

Hakomi Body-Centered Psychotherapy

Mindfulness and meditation

Guided Imagery

Hypnosis

EMDR

You can find more information on some of these on my Links & Resources page.

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