Therapy
I take the view that mental health is no different to physical health. In order to stay healthy and keep fit we may go to the gym, and just like training in the gym, our muscles are often sore immediately afterwards, with it taking time to see results. Incrementally and over time, our strength, health and physical fitness improves. A trained and qualified personal trainer assists with this. Similarly, therapy is the gym for our mental health. Talking with a trained and qualified therapist exercises our mind, assisting us in processing our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and experiences. It's often difficult and you may feel drained immediately afterwards. However, incrementally and over time, our mental strength, health, psychological awareness and resilience improves.
Often that requires someone outside of your network, with no connection or bias, trained, willing to listen, there solely to support you in improving your state of mind.
I draw on a range of my own personal life experiences and mental health struggles - experiences that I've processed and overcome - so will only ever listen to you with an open mind and completely without judgement.
My Approach
Relational
An approach centred on the importance of authentic connection, viewing the client-therapist relationship as crucial to growth, understanding that our emotional well-being stems from our relationship with self and others.
Person-centred
Helps clients to find their own solutions through a supportive, non-judgmental space built on empathy, helping individuals achieve personal growth and self-actualisation through conversation led by you. With support, you will find your own way/s forward.
Integrative
A personalised approach to mental health that draws upon and blends techniques from various therapeutic models to create an approach tailored to an individual's unique needs, rather than forcing one method or theory to fit.
What to expect...
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An informal, down to earth approach about whatever it is you need to talk about, without the jargon, without patronising you.
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No judgement, no pressure, no lying down on a sofa with your eyes closed as I make notes on a clipboard.
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An understanding that we all have traumatic experiences and dips in our mental health, me included; as well as the knowledge that we can manage them, overcome them, and/or learn to accept them.
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50 minute sessions in private therapy rooms either in-person or online - how many will depend on what you wish to work on and the progress we make. We can also walk and talk.
Get in touch...
Location
Covering Derbyshire
England