How Therapy Works

Sometimes life can feel difficult, painful and unmanageable. For many of us, it may be challenging to make changes that we want, and we may feel helpless, not knowing quite what to do, often falling into a trap of old and familiar patterns of behaviour. Or the changes we want to make may feel unachievable, beyond our reach, scary. Well, therapy can help in those situations. Talking to a professional who provides non-judgemental, respectful and kind presence and can support you with whatever you may need. People have different needs and my treatment is adjusted to your specific needs which we discuss in the initial meeting. Relying on our familiar way of being and behaving when we are alone or with others is normal. It often has been what we have known through our experience of living in our family and cultural system.

Our habitual patterns may become unhelpful when they stop us from achieving what we want to, from being in control of our lives, from living in harmony with ourselves and others. Our habitual patterns of being are a little bit like this old familiar coat which has protected you from bad weather for so many years, but now, it cannot be as good in different weather conditions - for example in Antarctica you may need a different coat, whilst in the rainforest of the Amazon you may not even need it. 

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Therapy with me is about supporting you wherever you are in your life journey and supporting you to become aware of and honour your old familiar coat. It is about supporting you to develop curiosity and compassion towards what and how this ‘coat’ may have been useful to you. It is about processing, little by little, elements of your current experience in a safe and supportive environment and making sense of them. It is about supporting you to develop deeper connection with yourself and others.