Why seek counselling?

Anyone can benefit from counselling, whether you have a specific reason for attending or not, it is a process of making your unconscious conscious. Most people attend when they experience conflict due to their unconscious processes, resulting in anxiety, stress, depression, relationship issues and general dissatisfaction or disconnection with life in general. It can be helpful to talk through feelings and experiences with someone who is not judgemental, nor directly involved. Sharing can sometimes be enough to offer relief and reduce the conflict, sometimes a little more is required.

What does counselling with me involve?

I am here to listen with no judgement and to explore your feelings with the aim that your unconscious self becomes more conscious so that you know and understand yourself and your responses better. I am a psychodynamic counsellor, which means that I explore your childhood experiences and identify if and how these continue to influence you. For example, your relationship with your manager could carry echoes of past relationships with parents, teachers, or other figures of authority from your childhood resulting in you feeling inferior and preventing you from climbing the management ladder at work. It is your past that can hold you back, rather than your capability.

By recognising echoes from your past, you can prevent them from influencing your present and genuinely engage in life and relationships.