MY PHILOSOPHY
Relationship is at the heart of what I do. I am not a 'purist' blank screen reflecting your questions back to you. In fact, many clients come to me having had 'purist' therapists, now seeking connection, answers to their questions, a sense of direction (tangible progress) and a clear understanding of themselves. People are inherently knowledgeable, making old-school listening therapy insufficient. Instead, I provide evidence-based Integrative Psychotherapy that is both proactive and relational.
MY APPROACH
Within confidential sessions, we work collaboratively to explore the root causes of your concerns (for lasting change), and identify strategies and solutions to gain greater control of life experiences. I often help people with these three core areas:
Emotions/Compulsions: Anxiety (mild to acute), Anger Management, Over-thinking-Rumination, Depression (mild to acute), Stress-Burnout-Overwhelm, and OCD (mild to acute).
Relationship Dynamics: Personal, Parental, Social & Work-place relationships: recurring themes-patterns, betrayal/affairs/break-up/separation/divorce, psychosexual, sexuality, culture and mixed identity.
Family Patterns: patterns within the current family, including parenting styles and child dynamics; historic family patterns (including intergenerational trauma); Narcissistic or Schizoid personality disorders within the family - the hated, alienated, rejected, used-objectified or infantilised child.
Whilst therapy is a serious endeavour, I also believe in the value of light-hearted humour as part of the therapy process and leverage the clients own innate self-knowledge/wisdom as part of the process.
MY OFFER
Wealth of Experience: In today’s world, there is a shortage of very senior, experienced therapists, with many newly trained practitioners emerging—polished but often lacking in skill. I provide psychotherapy backed by 30 years of senior expertise.
Proficiency & Competency: Three decades of experience enables 'intuitive knowing' and 'heuristic judgement': intuitive knowing leads to greater accurate assessment and heuristic judgement is making reliable & appropriate adjustments in the immediacy of the moment.
Value for Time: Getting to the nitty-gritty in shorter amounts of time, allows for more rapid growth and less need for long term therapy. Time is not wasted, as can happen with inexperienced therapists. Insight, relief and progress can be experienced within single sessions.
