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Alex Golding Therapy Resources & Transpersonal Perspectives

In-depth articles on healing and growth, exploring self-forgiveness, trauma recovery, Psychosynthesis, and the path to wholeness.

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This is a curated collection of therapy resources - soulful reflections, healing practices, and integrative insights to support your personal journey. Rooted in psychospiritual and transpersonal psychology, these writings explore trauma, growth, and the unfolding of self-awareness, grounded in Psychosynthesis and humanistic psychology.

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Psychosynthesis Healing the Primal Wound Self-Forgiveness Toxic Friendships Emotional Resilience Buddhist Therapy What Type of Therapy Is Right for Me? Trauma

Behind These Therapy Resources

I'm Alex Golding, a BACP-registered psychosynthesis counsellor working in Farringdon and Streatham and online. These resources are all written by me. Forty years of Buddhist practice, a career in the arts, and years of running men's and community groups sit behind my clinical training. I work with the whole of your story, not just the part that brought you here. More about me →

 

Latest Therapy Resources & Articles

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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.

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Conscious Kindness: A Compassionate Response to the Harsh Inner Critic

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

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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.

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Buddhist Therapy London: Mindfulness Counselling & the Spiritual Approach

Buddhist therapy London that's conversational, not meditation-led - 40 years of practice woven into psychosynthesis counselling for everyday life.

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What Type of Therapy Is Right for Me? An Honest Guide

What type of therapy is right for you - humanistic, transpersonal, or integrative - and how to find the approach that genuinely fits your life and values.

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Healing the Primal Wound

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

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

Love, loss, and the art of intimacy - a soulful exploration of relationship counselling through Fromm, Peck, Jung, Brené Brown, and more.

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From Crisis to Calling: Psychosynthesis Therapy for Meaningful Life Transitions

Life's unsettling passages - midlife crisis, loss, transitions - aren't just trials to survive. A psychosynthesis guide to finding what waits on the other side.

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The Inspiration Behind Psychosynthesis: Roberto Assagioli’s Vision

The story behind psychosynthesis - Roberto Assagioli's vision, and why his century-old ideas still shape how I work with clients today.

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The Art of Self-Forgiveness

The art of self-forgiveness through Carl Rogers, Gabor Maté, Irvin Yalom, and feminist voices - plus my own approach through 40 years of Buddhist practice.

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A Transpersonal and Humanistic Approach to Healing Trauma

Personal trauma is rarely separate from family, collective, and intergenerational patterns - a transpersonal approach to healing all of them together.

  Blog · Self-Compassion 5 Ways to Practice Conscious Kindness Day to Day Small, real practices - not another thing to get right, just a gentler way to be with yourself. Conscious Kindness isn’t a technique you master once and move on from - it’s a practice, something you return to daily, often imperfectly. If […]

For anyone hesitant about starting therapy - why it’s harder than it should be, what real strength actually looks like, and what to expect when you’re ready.

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

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.

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

The art of self-forgiveness through Carl Rogers, Gabor Maté, Irvin Yalom, and feminist voices - plus my own approach through 40 years of Buddhist practice.