“Ultimately, you will discover that it is not you who is the healer. You may learn a particular modality, but it is ‘spirit’ that is doing the healing. The best healing is when the ego consciousness of the healer gets out of the way.”

I am an integrative counsellor with a leaning towards psychodynamic modalities. I draw upon person-centred and CBT modalities when I feel it is within the client’s best interest. The client process is central to my therapeutic work which is driven more by individual client relationships than theory. This means, I work with current issues that the client brings in the moment and respond with empathy, grace and compassion.

I believe that the core conditions of empathy, Unconditional Positive Regard and congruence are very relevant to my client work. Additionally, my personal experience of psychodynamic and person-centred modalities as a client, informs my practice. Both forms of therapy have helped me to explore the past and explain how early family dynamics have informed my self concept and life choices. Experiential depth of my personal therapy has given me considerable insight into the impact of my early childhood trauma that now informs my counselling work. These days, my work is client led and self awareness helps me to practice deep empathic listening, to attune to the inner valuing process of my clients, not just by listening to their story but also tuning into the unspoken expressions, by observing visual and auditory cues, responding to counter transference and investigating incongruence.