the practice
What is psychotherapy?
Psychotherapy is a talk therapy rooted in the principle that dialogue with a skilled practitioner encourages self-awareness, emotion regulation, growth and psychological health.
Approach
Psychotherapy is a treatment of mental and emotional pain and disturbance by psychological rather than medical means.
A psychotherapist is not your friend, colleague or family member and this distinction can allow you greater freedom to explore your life.
Verbalising your story in the presence of another human being can be a powerful encounter.
Psychotherapy with me aims to be a simultaneously respectful, collaborative and explorative process where I accompany you,
enabling you to process your past and present experiences and live more fully.
THE process
One key aspect of Psychotherapy is the therapeutic relationship which offers you an opportunity to observe and recognise patterns of behaviour and experience a safe, non judgmental and empathic relationship. Psychotherapy is an approach that respects your capacity for healing as a whole person including body, feelings, mind and spirit.
Typically Psychotherapy enables you to reflect upon and process past experiences whilst also considering how your past might be influencing your present lived experience.
Psychotherapy offers the opportunity to re-write scripts and narratives that no longer serve you, healing old wounds and adaptations that the body and mind have constructed.
The process of Psychotherapy allows you to re-construct and integrate healthier, more fulfilling and embodied beliefs and experiences.
The application of Psychotherapy in my practice combines wisdom from Neuroscience, Humanistic Psychology, Psychiatry, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Eastern knowledge, Nature and the Arts.
How does it work?
Psychotherapy is an active experiential process that works on making unconscious patterns, conscious. Psychotherapy gently challenges negative core beliefs, creating opportunity for new neural pathways and more functional attitudes toward yourself and others.
Psychotherapy with me can enable you to recognise, name and experience emotions within a safe and contained environment building resilience and distress tolerance.
Talking with me, vocalizing your experience slows thinking, allows you to organise thoughts, investigate them and decide whether they remain applicable for you. These body based processes regulate the nervous system and re-wire the brain.
Your willingness and engagement in the process and application of tools and techniques offered during therapy are hugely impactful on the efficacy of Psychotherapy.
Benefits of Psychotherapy
Your experience is unique, however some benefits might include:
Increased self-awareness within thoughts, feelings and habitual patterns
Reduced stress, anxiety and improved mood
Development of resources, resilience and coping mechanisms
Increased confidence in approaching interpersonal relationships
Shifts in your relationships through changes in yourself or due to others’ response to the changes in you
Processing and integrating traumatic experiences
Learning and re-learning to trust, feel and speak
Psychotherapy may assist with the following issues:
Abuse
Addiction
ADHD
Affairs and Betrayal
Attachment
Autism
Childless not by choice
Depression
Disordered eating
Dissociation
Emotion regulation
Fear & anxiety
Gambling
Immigration
Impotence
Infertility
Loneliness
Loss
Motherhood and fatherhood
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Panic attacks
Parenting
Perfectionism
Post-natal depression and anxiety
Psychological and emotional distress
Purpose and meaning
Relationship issues
Self-esteem, confidence and self-worth
Sex
Sexuality
Social anxiety
Spirituality
Stress
Suicidal ideation
Transitions
Trauma
Work related issues
