How I work
I offer a safe and caring environment in which you can explore the difficult areas of your life.I believe that the difficulties we experience in adult life can often come from difficult experiences and relationships formed in early life, and that a relationship with a counsellor/psychotherapist can provide an opportunity to explore this.
The aim of counselling and psychotherapy is to help you gain perspective about whatever is troubling you. Thinking about the past and present, together we explore what might be stopping you from reaching your full potential.
Allowing space to think about the past as well as the present can bring unconscious processes more into conscious awareness, and can enable a person to live a more fulfilling life.
My training is in psychodynamic therapy, and I trained over four years with Gloucestershire Counselling Service (GCS),an affiliate of WPF Therapy,one of the country's leading counselling organisations. I am an Accredited Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy BACP, and I am a Member of the United Kingdom Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists UKRCP.
I have many years of experience, since 2002, with young people and adults.My continuing commitment to further professional development training and interests in other therapy models, and experience, enables me to adapt to a wide variety of individuals and problems.
I am interested in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking and attachment theory, and these inform the way I work.
See www.whycounselling.blogspot.com for further information on counselling and psychotherapy theories and approaches.