How does it feel? Sometimes it is helpful
to consider our lives from a new perspective in order to understand
ourselves better and to discover what is really important for us.
There are times when you may feel removed from yourself, without
your own instinct. It might be a trauma or managing a stressful situation
that makes you feel unable to cope. Perhaps you are facing a pervading
feeling of discomfort and dissatisfaction that leads you to question
how are you are living.
Psychotherapy gives you a time, a place and a professional, confidential
relationship to ask those questions in. It offers you an opportunity
to reflect on how you make sense of your past and how you respond
to the present and prepare for the future.
By focusing on you as an individual and
drawing out your own questions, existential psychotherapy helps you
to explore your beliefs, values, expectations and feelings. By throwing
light on how you see the world, existential psychotherapy offers you
other ways of understanding your life.
My approach to counselling suits people who are curious about life;
people who are prepared to examine their basic assumptions and are
willing to consider alternative ways of looking at their situation.
Through unearthing the meanings you find in your circumstances it
is possible for us to work together towards what you want to achieve.
My open attitude to the work welcomes
enquiries from people who are unfamiliar and those who are familiar
with psychotherapy or counselling. I work in both Central London and
North London.
As a psychotherapist with experience in the NHS, drugs and alcohol
services and private practice, I have worked with people who are
coping with a range of anxieties including depression, panic attacks,
bereavement, sexual identity, substance abuse, obsessive compulsive
disorders and relationship problems.
If you are interested in examining how existential psychotherapy
might help you, we can meet to discuss what you would like to achieve
from counselling, whether we can work together, and if so, how we
should proceed.
