What to expect?
My approach is highly tailored to you.
If you feel most comfortable with a space to talk, explore and be heard without rushing or interruption I can offer this. If a more creative approach works better for you I am equally comfortable finding the therapeutic balance using paper, pens, timelines, genograms and other creative aids such as picture cards and figurines or fidget toys.
Our life experiences and personalities are unique, and so too is the therapy best matched to us. My approach can support you with your specific circumstances whether you want to avoid awkward silence at all costs or feel pulled to sink into deep connected quiet. I’d be pleased to arrange a free video chat to begin the collaboration.
You might be feeling anxious or concerned about what counselling entails. Is therapy going to make me talk about things I don’t want to? Or, feeling you should be able to manage without counselling. I shared these concerns when I began my own counselling.
My role is to support you in exploring issues and difficulties which are getting in the way for you. You set the agenda, the pace and the way we work together. I’ve been the other side of the therapist’s chair too. I believe deeply in therapeutic benefit because I have my own lived experience of how life changing it can be.
Though, this isn’t about me, I hope it helps to feel reassured, I get it.