Therapy and Counselling

It can be difficult to unpack the difference between psychotherapy, therapy and counselling. Commonly the difference is understood in terms of the length and depth of the work, and there are different training paths and qualifications. At times the terms are used interchangeably. It is frequently accepted that there is an element of cross over in the processes.

How I Work With You

My own training is as a relational integrative psychotherapist and counsellor. I am registered with the UKCP, and adhere to their regulatory codes of practice, which ensure ethical practice, and require continued professional development and supervision.

My training underpins and informs my work. It means I can apply learning from a number of different theories - humanistic, psychodynamic, existential, attachment, body and arts psychotherapy - in my work.

This sounds very cognitive, yet my integrative training has also required me to explore and know myself deeply. This dual learning, honed further through my years of experience, enables me to bring something which is uniquely me as a therapist. It enables me to be responsive to you, and the issues that you bring in ways which suit you, and reflect your uniqueness.

It is important to me to practice from a place of equality, and I hope it feels human, personal. Psychotherapy is an art, it is active. If something of what we do is to learn how we dare to show up as ‘more’ of ourselves, then this has to ‘show up’ in the therapy room too.

I am passionate about my work. This passion is fuelled from the daily witnessing of people again and again bringing courage in a practice of showing up, and sticking at, something which at times can be deeply painful. Yet the act of staying allows something, them, to be truly known. In the ‘doing’ of this there is healing and transformation.