My Approach

If you are considering therapy for yourself then it is likely that your experiencing of life right now is not quite matching up to your wants or expectations.

Perhaps you shout at your kids or your partner and end up regretting it, knowing that this behaviour is not really ‘you’? Perhaps deep down at heart you know yourself to be calm and happy but cannot understand why you become depressed and anxious so often? Perhaps you are struggling with addictive behaviours.

The person-centred approach to counselling is to provide a safe and supportive relationship where these contradictions in your experience can be exposed and explored.

At the core of person-centred philosophy is the belief that all human beings innately possess the drive and capability to become their best possible selves.

Whilst many approaches to therapy may label or diagnose our difficulties as deficiencies or pathologies which need to be bridged or overcome, the person-centred approach takes the view that we all already have all that we need to thrive in life. Rather than seeing ourselves as broken and in need of repair, we need to recognise and reorganise some of the obstacles that stand in our way.

Working side by side, our goal will not be to define the change or changes that need to occur, but rather to understand what is happening to arrest or hinder your natural process of change and development.

I believe that creativity, joyfulness and spirituality are intrinsic human qualities. Constructive and natural personality change can be allowed to occur when the barriers to that change are broken down.