Why seek therapy?
You may be wondering how counselling or psychotherapy could help you right now. They offer a safe, empathic, and confidential space to explore what’s troubling you and to think about how you’d like to move forward in your life.
Whatever your reasons for seeking help, therapy provides space to reflect on yourself, your relationships, and the issues you face.
Through counselling or psychotherapy, you can begin to:
Create the life you want
Understand and let go of the impact of past difficulties or trauma
Develop more freedom and choice in how you respond to life’s challenges
This doesn’t mean that difficult things won’t happen, but it can help you feel more resourced, grounded, and able to choose how you deal with them.
Counselling or psychotherapy?
Counselling is often shorter-term, focused on a specific issue or situation in your life.
Psychotherapy tends to be longer-term and open-ended, offering the opportunity to work more deeply on patterns, experiences, and relationships.
About therapy with me
You may be wondering what therapy with me is like, and how I might differ from other therapists. Below, I’ve shared a few things to give you a sense of my approach.
I aim to hold a warm, compassionate space where you can explore what’s troubling you. We usually begin with whatever feels most alive or immediate for you in the moment. I see therapy as a collaborative relationship — a space we create together to inquire into your experience. At times, this might feel challenging, as therapy often invites us to look deeply at ourselves and the patterns that shape us.
Ultimately, I hope that therapy helps us to understand both our personal and cultural conditioning, so that we can experience a greater sense of freedom in how we live and relate — with ourselves and with others. For me, therapy is about coming into a fuller, more accepting relationship with different parts of ourselves and finding more freedom through that process.
My approach integrates embodied, relational, and mindfulness-based methods, drawing on Buddhist psychology as well as Western psychodynamic and psychotherapy traditions. This includes working with trauma and attachment theory, transpersonal perspectives, and cultural understandings. For me, therapy is about exploring how we’ve been shaped by our experiences and cultures, and discovering new ways of being that feel freer and more alive.
My original psychotherapy training is a Masters degree and UKCP accreditation in relational, mindfulness based core process psychotherapy.
What next?
I offer an initial 30-minute consultation to give us a chance to meet and talk about what you’re hoping to get from therapy, and how we might work together.
Once we’ve agreed to work together, we’ll meet weekly at a standing appointment time, giving you a consistent space to explore what you’re experiencing and how to move forward in your life. In-person sessions are 50 minutes and online sessions are 60 minutes.
Getting started
In our first full session, we’ll clarify what you need from therapy at this point in your life and discuss your goals for the work. We’ll also explore your personal history and what life has been like for you, to understand the context for the changes you want to make.
How Sessions Work
After the first session, therapy is flexible and client-led. Sessions are guided by what’s happening for you in the moment. I work as an engaged, relational therapist, so we’ll explore thoughts, feelings, patterns and somatic experiences together in a collaborative way.
Duration and review
I usually suggest starting with six sessions, followed by a review. This gives us the chance to check in on how therapy is going and decide together whether to continue. Some clients feel they’ve achieved what they need by this point, while others choose to continue. The review helps us identify what we’re working with and any areas where more support could be helpful.
Most of my clients continue on an ongoing basis, but for some, it’s helpful to have a defined timeframe.
