Counselling and Therapy

  Counselling For Healing And Change

You may be at a crossroads: perhaps something momentous has happened, or you know that things can’t stay the same. Perhaps you feel overwhelmed, depressed, anxious or unsure what comes next. 

Many of my clients are used to thinking their way through life or managing life through hard work alone. But now that doesn’t appear to be enough.

This is where counselling comes in. It offers a different kind of help. Not advice, nor telling you what to do, but exploring what’s underneath, the causes of your issues. 

Because truly being heard in a clinical space, by someone with the appropriate skills and experience to support you, can give you the release you need, a kind of catharsis. It can also begin to shift how you see your life, helping you clear the mental clutter and find new perspectives.

What you are experiencing is rarely just about what’s happening ‘out there’. It’s also about what’s happening ‘in here’: feelings that haven’t been named and acknowledged, patterns you haven’t yet noticed – the music you’re dancing to without realising, for as Rumi says –

“We rarely hear the inward music, but we are all dancing to it nevertheless.”

Some of What Might Be Going On For You

Life Transitions

When life shifts, the ground can feel unsteady. Counselling offers clarity, perspective, and support as you navigate what’s next.

Confusion

Feeling lost or uncertain is exhausting. You may not know what you want or how you feel. One day it’s one thing, the next it’s another. When your inner world feels blurry, it’s hard to make clear decisions.

Worry and Anxiety

Perhaps you’re carrying constant tension, about relationships, finances, the world, or just a sense that something is wrong. Counselling offers a way to explore and digest these feelings, instead of carrying them alone.

Shame or Embarrassment

You may feel you’re not quite doing life ‘right’. That others have it sorted and you somehow missed the manual. Counselling helps unpack where these thoughts began and lets the light in.

Depression

Sometimes there’s no obvious reason for the heaviness. But it’s still there, and it still matters. Whether it’s linked to the past or something more recent, the flatness or lack of motivation can be isolating. You don’t have to deal with it alone.

What Is It Like To Have Counselling?

Counselling is a protected space for you to speak freely. You don’t need to have it all worked out. You don’t need to be ‘a good client’. You just need to show up, honestly, with whatever’s there.

In our sessions, you can bring the thoughts and feelings you’ve hidden or only half-admitted. There’s no judgment and no pressure. You won’t be told what you should do. Counselling isn’t about fixing you. It’s about making room for you, as you are.

Over time, counselling can help you:

• Find out what you really feel, not just what you think you should feel

• Make sense of your experience and story

• Feel lighter and more grounded

• Heal past pain

• Get unstuck

• Make clearer, more confident decisions

Lived Experience, Professional Support

I know what it’s like to struggle with anxiety and depression. I also know that therapy can help. That’s why I’ve spent more than 25 years supporting others, across thousands of hours of clinical practice.

I work in a person-centred way, an approach developed by Carl Rogers back in the 1950s. He saw therapy not as superficially fixing, or even just offering a diagnosis, but as a ‘therapeutic’ relationship, that’s challenging as well as supportive, in the interests of your healing. It’s a kind of working partnership, one that helps you hear yourself more clearly, release stuck feelings, find out who you really are and understand how you’re contributing to the situations around you and inside you. And ultimately to find your way forward.

“When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on.” – Carl Rogers

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