FINDING THE RIGHT COUNSELLOR FOR YOU
I offer support to adolescents and adults facing a variety of mental health challenges. Whether you're dealing with anxiety, depression, anger, stress, or other emotional difficulties, counselling can provide a safe space to explore your feelings and develop coping strategies.
Why Choose Talking Therapy?
Research consistently shows that talking therapy is a powerful tool for managing and overcoming mental health issues. Through counselling, you can:
Gain Insights: Understand the root causes of your emotional struggles and identify patterns that may be affecting your well-being.
Develop Coping Strategies: Learn practical techniques to manage stress, anxiety, and other mental health challenges.
Improve Relationships: Enhance your communication skills and resolve conflicts in your personal and professional relationships.
Boost Self-Esteem: Build confidence and self-worth by addressing negative thought patterns and behaviors.
Achieve Personal Growth: Set and achieve personal goals, leading to a more fulfilling and balanced life.
Counselling is a collaborative process where we work together to identify your goals and create a personalized plan to help you achieve them. If you're ready to take the first step towards better mental health, contact me to schedule an appointment.
EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
Existential counselling and psychotherapy is based on a philosophical approach. Far from being an intellectual approach, it encourages you to develop self-awareness, self-acceptance and an understanding of your own inherent responsibility for your attitude to life and choices. This process challenges you to face your own limitations, create your own meaning, and come to terms with the inevitable uncertainty of life. Existential counselling and psychotherapy creates the possibility for you to build new, more encompassing and meaningful ways to relate to yourself, to others and to life in general.
The existential approach endeavours to develop a relational experience based on support, care and respect of your unique way of being.
EMDR - Eye MOVEMENT DESENSITisation and reprocessing
EMDR is a psychological practice with specific protocols for different conditions developed by Francine Shapiro PhD in 1987. EMDR has gained a large number of research studies that establish a high-level of efficacy in a variety of difficulties such as PTSD, phobias, anxiety disorders and personality disorders.
How does EDMR work?
Shapiro discovered that bilateral stimulation enables new connections to form between ‘frozen’ dysfunctional memory networks. For example, memories that can develop from a traumatic event. Memory networks contain adaptive responses and if you start to reprocess these traumatic memories, EDMR can help to render them less emotionally distressing. This allows you to perceive these memories within a historical context. As time moves on, you begin to remember these memories, rather than re-experience them each time.
COUNSELLINg
I see adolescents and adults struggling with a range of complexity in different mental health issues such as:
· Addictions
· Anger, guilt, mood swings
· Anxiety
· Attachment disorders
· Bereavement and loss
· Death/Terminal illness
· Depression
· Gender and racial issues
· Identity and purpose
· Low self-esteem
· Panic attacks
· Phobias
· Relationship difficulties
· Self-harm and suicidal thoughts
· Traumas