About Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a Space for You
It is a process of enquiry and discovery.
It allows you to discover and explore hidden parts of your mind and body at work. It can bring about understanding, insight, healing, and integration at a deep level.
About Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy - sometimes just called therapy - is a conversational space that can help you to compassionately identify and explore the parts of you that might be holding you back, and parts that you didn’t know you had.
Psychotherapy is based on the premise that there are hidden aspects within each of us that are really hard for us to see and know by ourselves. We come to know ourselves more fully through relationship.
These hidden aspects influence our experience of ourselves and others: our thoughts, emotions, bodies. They can hold us back from being able to fully experience the beautiful parts of life: the mystery and the magic.
In psychotherapy, the therapist brings an open, curious and non-judgemental stance to you and your world, that can support you to start to see yourself more clearly and more compassionately. Through this process you might also start to feel your sense of self expanding, or even transforming.
Most people engage with me in a psychotherapy relationship with the intention of it being a long-term, transformative, process, and some people choose to come for a shorter, defined period to work on a particular issue.
The psychotherapy I offer is a longer-term, relational form of therapy. It’s not a skills-based or solution-focused model. And it’s not about quick fixes.
Sessions are a space to slow things down and pay attention to patterns — in feelings, relationships, and ways of being — that often have quite deep roots. We work through conversation, reflection, and sometimes attention to the body or inner experience, but there’s no pressure to perform or way to ‘do it right’.
For many people, it can feel quite different from more directive therapies. It can feel slower, deeper, and sometimes unfamiliar at first. But also more spacious, real and transformative.
Because of that, it tends to work best when people are able to come weekly and are open to staying with the process over time.
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I have training in Internal Family Systems therapy, and I draw from and incorporate a number of different therapeutic systems into my practice. This means the work we do together might sometimes look and feel a lot like IFS therapy, and sometimes might be quite different depending on what feels most suitable and supportive for your healing and development at the time.