All the ways we can work together…

If you are struggling with any of the following problems, book a 30 minute consultation to talk over your needs and we can decide if working together is a good fit. If it feels like the skills of a colleague or alternative service might be better suited to your situation I will always let you know.

Life Transition

Transition comes in many different forms; adjusting to motherhood and recovering from a traumatic birth, changing career, coping with the end of a relationship, leaving school, retirement, accepting a life changing diagnosis, moving house, children leaving the home, working through depression and anxiety, coping with infertility or accepting life without children and much more. Viewing and treating these big life events as transitions can help contain them within an understandable reflective space so that we can work together to process and adjust to these changes with a view to finding peace within the past and moving willingly into the future.

Identity

As with life transitions, our identity and relationship with the self is dynamic and changes over time. Often our self view is informed by experiences in childhood and adolescence but as adults we have constructed secondary ideas on who we are and what our core beliefs and values include. When there is dissonance or even conflict between the inner child that lies within and the present adult we embody day to day you may find yourself struggling to assimilate and move on from the past. There are many theoretical ways of approaching identity work and the beauty of being an Integrative therapist means we can collaborate in our choice of therapeutic planning depending on your wishes, goals and history.

Bereavement

Much of my clinical experience is based within end of life, grief and bereavement counselling, in fact I still regularly see client’s in a hospice as part of my placement. Part of this care is often simply providing a space to feel and start to process the loss you are experiencing, whilst secondarily working on looking further ahead and identifying what life looks like now that person is gone. For many client’s we start off without any pressure to look to the future and find that sitting together without judgement or agenda is the most helpful use of our time. Bereavement work encompasses life transition and identity as above, its rarely just about grief, in our safe space we can work through some of the other changes you might be experiencing as a symptom of the loss and work together to find your natural strengths and resources.

Interested in working together? Here is what it might look like…

Visit Me.

Individual, face to face therapy based in Waterloo, SE1. 50 minute sessions at the same time each week that are supported by an in-person relationship with each other. The traditional way of conducting therapy sessions, face to face gives me a chance to pick up on non-verbal communication, can be more personal and encourages your communication skills.

Online.

Individual therapy via online video call (zoom/skype). 50 minute sessions at the same time each week with more flexibility than in-person therapy. Ideal if you don’t live in London, have mobility restrictions or move around for work/life but still have a space you feel can be private where you can safely discuss and connect with me each week.

Telephone.

Individual therapy via the telephone. 50 minute sessions at the same time each week for those without a reliable internet connection, who might prefer not to see each other, who suffer from social anxiety, are in long term care or who might struggle to accommodate travel time with childcare/busy lives.