My clients are central to my work and through developing a strong therapeutic relationship based on trust, honesty and understanding whilst offering a safe, confidential space for you to reflect on a current presenting issue or area of distress, personal growth and change can occur.

I would like my clients to remember that they are not alone and that they are valued. I am here to walk alongside you in your journey and support you when facing challenges and difficult experiences. I will offer you a safe and non judgemental space to explore your thoughts and feelings as your experience is totally unique and together, we can explore what therapeutic change might look like for you and how you might get there. The Person-Centred approach provides an opportunity for you to reconnect with your inner values and sense of self worth and autonomously transcend any limitations you may have.

Experiential therapy focuses on activities such as art, role play, chair work, use of props, crafts and music to enable experiences to be recreated and/or form within the client’s awareness. These experiences provide opportunities for emotions to be identified and fully explored that previously may have been distorted or denied.

Experiential therapy can benefit clients that have experienced trauma and struggle with painful or unhappy feelings due to the gentle nature of exploration available and alternative focus onto different materials.

Counselling is often viewed as short term work in therapy that addresses a one off, usually current presenting issue. Psychotherapy on the other hand, is generally used to describe the type of therapy required on a longer term basis (months to a few years) which will include unpicking past experiences to enable you to live your life being better able to cope with the press of life.

Talking therapy is an evidence based approach to help people who are experiencing distressing emotions, feelings, thoughts or behaviours. They involve talking to a therapist who is specifically trained in this area and with whom a safe and accepting relationship can be formed to enable the cause of distress to be explored, potential patterns and new insights to be acquired which will lead to a reduction in distress. Having a deeper understanding and acceptance of yourself will provide opportunities for positive change and allow you to have more autonomy within your life decisions, behaviours and actions.

There are many reasons that people choose to seek therapy but generally speaking, it is because they want to get more out of life, be able to cope better with life's challenges and understand more about themselves. Common reasons for people attending therapy are because they:

• Feel anxious, depressed or confused;

• Are dissatisfied with life, work or relationships;

• Are in some kind of personal crisis;

• Have difficulties due to abuse;

• Are stressed or anxious due to excessive responsibility;

• Are having difficulty in a relationship or find it difficult to maintain relationships;

• Face illness or bereavement;

• Deal with problems in harmful ways, eg gambling, drinking, eating disorders;

• Past trauma;

• Issues with confidence.