Counselling and Therapy

  Counselling For Clarity, Peace Of Mind And A Way Forward

You may be at a crossroads: perhaps something momentous has happened, or you just have an unshakable sense that things can’t stay the same. Perhaps you feel overwhelmed, anxious, unsure what comes next. Your mind keeps racing. You’re stuck.

Many of my clients are used to thinking their way through life, be they academics, creatives, or others who typically manage a whole roster of things through hard work, intelligence or trying to think outside the box.

But now that simply isn’t enough. You’re probably finding that the usual tools aren’t working and anxiety or low mood is taking over. And you can’t figure it out alone.

That’s where counselling comes in. It offers a different kind of help. Not advice, not superficial fixing, but exploring what’s underneath, the subtext if you like, and creating the space for more lasting change.

Because truly being heard in a clinical space, by someone with the appropriate skills and experience to support you, can both give you the release valve you need and also shift how you see your life. Counselling helps you clear the mental clutter and find new perspectives. Because feeling stuck, for example, is rarely just about what’s happening out there. It’s also about what’s happening in here: feelings we haven’t named, patterns you haven’t yet noticed, music you’re dancing to without realising –

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

Some of What Might Be Going On For You

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

You might wonder how long changing will take. It depends. Some issues untangle quickly. Others take time. And of course it also depends how deeply you want to explore or if you need ongoing support.

But as a rule of thumb, a good amount of work can often be done in just a few months, enough to shift the ground and help you move forward with more clarity.

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