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Spiritual Bypassing Therapy for Buddhists & Practitioners

For practicing Buddhists and spiritual people: when practice becomes a way to avoid feeling, from someone with 40 years on the path himself.

Relationship Counselling in London & Online

Individual therapy for the relationship patterns that keep repeating — conflict, disconnection, trust, and the fear of being truly seen.

Conscious Kindness: A Compassionate Response to the Harsh Inner Critic

Many people live under the influence of a harsh inner critic without even realising it. This article explores how self-criticism develops, why shame and people-pleasing often lie beneath it, and how Conscious Kindness can help us move towards greater self-acceptance, authenticity and emotional freedom. Drawing on Psychosynthesis, Carl Rogers, Jung, Winnicott, Gabor Maté and contemporary psychotherapy, it offers a compassionate path from survival towards a more integrated and fulfilling life.

Toxic Friendships: Signs, Why They Hurt & How to Heal

Toxic friendships can leave us feeling unseen, confused, and deeply hurt. This article explores why they affect us so profoundly, how to recognise unhealthy dynamics, and how therapy can support healing, boundaries, and self-respect.

What Is Ego Strength & How Much Is Enough for a Resilient Life?

When enough ego strength exists, life no longer feels like something to survive, but something to engage with — emotionally, relationally, and meaningfully. Many people don’t struggle because they lack insight, but because their emotional system becomes overwhelmed. In this article, I explore what psychologists mean by ego strength — and how therapy helps build the inner stability that supports growth.

Integrating Buddhist Practice into Counselling: Mindfulness Counselling & Buddhist Therapy Approach

Mindfulness counselling can help you bridge the gap between outer life and inner truth. Drawing on Buddhist wisdom & diverse life experience, I offer a soulful, integrative therapy where personal mindfulness, creative practice, and deep dialogue lead to healing, resolution and authentic living.

Humanistic, Transpersonal & Integrative Counselling: Finding What Fits You

Discover how humanistic counselling, transpersonal counselling, and integrative therapy can help you heal and grow. Learn how to find a therapy modality that truly fits your life with Alex Golding Therapy in London and online.

What Is Transpersonal Psychotherapy — and What Are the Alternatives?

What is Transpersonal Psychotherapy—and what are the alternatives? Beyond diagnosis and symptom-management, this soulful approach explores meaning, creativity, and spirit. Yet for some, transpersonal psychotherapy alternatives like CBT, EMDR, or Jungian work may also hold answers. In this article I explore the landscape—and how my integrative, compassionate practice in London & online can help you heal and grow.

Alternatives to Psychosynthesis Therapy — Integrative, Humanistic & Transpersonal Options

Searching for alternatives to Psychosynthesis therapy – or want to find out what best could work for you? This guide explores humanistic, integrative, transpersonal, and clinical approaches — from CBT and EMDR to Jungian and somatic therapies. Written with warmth and depth, it offers practical pathways and compassionate insight to help you find the therapy that truly fits.

Healing the Primal Wound

The early rupture beneath anxiety, self-sabotage and existential dread, and how psychosynthesis works with it.

Love, Loss & the Art of Intimacy: A Soulful Reflection on Relationship Counselling

What keeps us from loving freely—and being truly seen? This deep dive explores how relationship counselling and spiritual therapy can heal emotional patterns, with insights from Scott Peck, Jung, Fromm, and more.

From Crisis to Calling: Psychosynthesis Therapy for Meaningful Life Transitions

Whether a midlife crisis, significant loss, or rites of passage—life-transitions are profound liminal spaces where our identities shift and uncertainty stirs. We are placed “between”: between the past and the future, between who we thought we were and who we might become. But what if these unsettling passages are not just difficult trials, but sacred opportunities…

Psychosynthesis Therapy for Anxiety & the Inner Critic

Anxiety is often a response to deeper emotions like shame or vulnerability. Psychosynthesis therapy helps you gently meet the inner critic, uncover hidden patterns, and move toward wholeness.
Anxiety therapy with Alex treats symptoms as messengers, not just problems to eliminate — working with the inner critic underneath.

Spiritual Awakening or Breakdown? How Psychosynthesis Therapy Helps

When life feels like it’s falling apart, it’s hard to know whether you’re experiencing a profound spiritual awakening—or sliding into a breakdown. Both can involve intense emotions and existential questioning. Understanding the difference can help you meet this moment with clearer insight and more self-compassion. Explore whether your experience is spiritual awakening or breakdown — and how Psychosynthesis therapy in London can support your journey.

Men and Emotions: Why It’s Time to Talk

Grounded, confidential therapy for anxiety, shame, anger and disconnection — a space to be fully human without holding it all together.

What Is Psychosynthesis Therapy? A Gentle Guide for London Clients

Psychosynthesis therapy offers an integrative path to healing—not just managing symptoms, but embracing your full inner world. Developed by Roberto Assagioli, this transpersonal approach to the psychey weaves psychology, spirituality, and personal development into a refreshing, compassionate journey of self‑discovery.

Depression Counselling in London | Effective Therapy & Support

Holistic depression counselling that explores what depression may be communicating, not just symptom management. Whether you’re dealing with low mood, burnout, or a sense of meaninglessness, depression counselling can offer you a safe space to begin healing. I provide holistic, relational, transpersonal therapy—both online and in-person at London Bridge and Farringdon—to help you reconnect with your vitality and purpose.

Therapy for Creatives & Artists in London

For creatives, artists and freelancers navigating self-doubt, financial uncertainty and burnout — from a therapist who’s also a working musician.

Psychosynthesis Therapy | Towards Realising Fullest Potential

Psychosynthesis Therapy is a gentle yet profound way of healing that honours every part of you—mind, body, emotions, and spirit. Rooted in the work of Roberto Assagioli, this humanistic, integrative approach invites you to move beyond old patterns and reconnect with your deepest self. In our sessions we explore not only challenges and symptoms, but also the inner light and purpose that give life meaning. Psychosynthesis helps you weave together all the threads of your experience so you can live with clarity, wholeness, and the freedom to realise your fullest potential.

The Art of Self-Forgiveness

Self-forgiveness is a profound and transformative journey, one that is central to many forms of psychotherapy, especially within humanistic and existential frameworks. These perspectives emphasize the importance of self-compassion, personal responsibility, and authenticity in overcoming guilt and shame, fostering personal growth, and allowing individuals to move forward in life with a greater sense of peace. Here, we explore the concept of self-forgiveness through the wisdom of prominent humanist, existential, and feminist thinkers, highlighting their contributions to understanding and healing from the past.