Room Based
Working from an Integrative background means drawing on several different approaches to ensure you are supported in a way that is individual for you. Whilst my approach is mainly Person Centred, my training was based on and included CBT, Psychodynamic, Transactional Analysis theory which enables me to work in a number of different ways to help process what you are experiencing. Room based sessions run for 50 mins.
Walk and Talk
Counselling outdoors brings a very different approach to traditional counselling work. Working outdoors stimulates our senses and thus allows us to come out of thefocus of our busy minds and into the present. I have found that this alternative approach to counselling allows for more awareness and offers more opportunity to reflect on responses to different environments and situations that we would not have access to in a counselling room. Walk and Talk Therapy begins outdoors but there will be an option to sit alone if we feel it is needed. These sessions last for 50 mins.
Online
Online counselling can be hugely beneficial to those who may find talking face to face uncomfortable or those who simply feel more at ease in their own environment at home. Online counselling has been shown to be more effective for children and teenagers engaging in therapy because the use of technology has become a natural part of their communication. Similar to room-based counselling, I use an integrative approach and the sessions last for 50 mins.
Types of Therapy:
Person Centred Therapy
This focuses on you (rather than the counsellor being the expert) and aims to help you fulfil your potential. I will help you achieve this by accepting and valuing you, being honest and transparent and supporting you exactly as you are without any judgement.
Psychodynamic Therapy
This involves helping you to bring your subconscious into your conscious mind. It helps you become more aware of what’s in your subconscious, such as difficult memories and experiences, so you can understand how these deep-rooted feelings impact on you in the present and how you can learn to cope with them.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
This looks at your thoughts, feelings and behaviours and helps you to change negative and the resulting thoughts and behaviours into realistic and positive ones using a variety of practical strategies and tools.
Transactional Analysis
This is a method which focuses on the transactions of communications between two people when they talk. Often issues arise in relationships because of problems in the communication between you. TA helps you change that by helping you better understand yourself and others and improve your communication skills allowing you to resolve any conflict in the relationship.