Individual therapy

There are all sorts of reasons people come to therapy.

You might be worrying all the time, feeling low, struggling with confidence or finding yourself stuck in the same patterns. A relationship might be difficult. You might be grieving. Something might have happened recently, or you might be realising that things from much earlier in your life are still affecting you now.

And sometimes it’s not that clear. You might not know what’s wrong or where to start. That’s okay too. You don’t need to arrive with a perfectly formed explanation of what’s going on.

We can work that out together.

The relationship we build is the most important part of how I work. I want therapy to feel like something we’re doing together, rather than something I’m doing to you. I’ll get to know you, ask questions, reflect back what I’m hearing and share things I notice. Sometimes I might gently challenge you and sometimes we might have a bit of a laugh.

I work integratively, which basically means I’m trained in different ways of doing therapy and can draw on them depending on you and what you need. My work is grounded in person-centred principles and I’m also trained in Emotion Focused Therapy and draw on approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Those names matter less than what that looks like when we’re actually sitting together. We might try to understand an emotion rather than get rid of it, notice the thoughts or patterns that keep pulling you back into the same place, make sense of where some of those patterns came from or think about what matters to you and what you want your life to look like.

There isn’t one right way to do therapy, because there isn’t one type of person coming to therapy.

Some things can change. Some things can make more sense when we understand them differently. And some things are painful because they really are painful, like grief, loss, things that happened that shouldn’t have happened.

Therapy doesn’t have to turn everything into a problem to solve. Sometimes having someone alongside you while you go through something really hard matters too.