Psychotherapeutic counselling
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Psychosynthesis counselling in Farringdon, Streatham and online.
Maybe life has been wearing you down for a while now. Or something shifted recently, and it has left you feeling unsteady, not quite sure who you are in the middle of it all. Maybe your mind will not quiet down, or you have started wondering if you are the only one who feels this way. You are not.
Most of us think about therapy for a long time before we do anything about it. You do not have to have all the answers. You do not have to hide how hard it has been. Often just saying things out loud begins to bring relief. Therapy is a place to do that. Other times it is slower, and it is about what keeps repeating underneath. If you feel ready to talk, I am here to listen and to work through whatever is troubling you. You can start wherever you want to.
What people bring
What we work with
These are the areas people most often arrive with. You do not have to know which one before you come, and for most women and men I see, it is more than one. I see individuals rather than couples, though much of the work is about relationships.
Anxiety / Overwhelm
“The essence of trauma is that it is overwhelming, unbelievable and unbearable.”Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score
Depression
“Not till we are lost... do we begin to find ourselves.”Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Relationships / Intimacy
What we want from other people, and what we are frightened of wanting.
Self-esteem / Confidence
Thinking less of ourselves than we would ever think of anyone else, and where that started.
Conflict / Anger
“Integration...for all feelings and ideas that belong to being alive.”D. W. Winnicott, Aggression, Guilt and Reparation, 1960
Grief / Loneliness
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Spiritual crisis / Purpose
“Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love
Truer identity
“Creative life always stands outside convention.”Carl Jung, in Storr, The Essential Jung, p202
Family dynamics
“The collective past is alive in the present.”Thomas Hübl, Healing Collective Trauma
What a session is like
How the work goes
Sessions are fifty minutes, usually at the same time each week. We start where you are rather than with a questionnaire. You talk, I listen, and between us we begin to make sense of what has been happening and why it has the hold it does. The relationship itself is part of the work too. The way we are with other people often turns up in the room, where we can see it as it happens. What we talk about stays between us. Sessions are confidential, within the BACP ethical framework.
Psychosynthesis is an integrative approach, which in practice means the work is shaped around you and not around a method. Some weeks that is slow, careful going through something painful. Other weeks it is more practical, or quieter, or about what you want next. There is no schedule to keep to and nothing you have to be ready for.
More on what actually happens in a session · Starting therapy for the first time · Therapy for men
“The untold want by life and land ne’er granted,Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.”
Walt Whitman, The Untold Want, Leaves of Grass
Making a start
How to begin
Sessions are fifty minutes, £70. In person in Farringdon, in Streatham on Tuesdays, or online by Zoom from anywhere in the UK or abroad.
The first fifteen-minute call is free, and there is no obligation on either side after it.
I am a registered member of the BACP, no. 411804, working to its Ethical Framework, and trained at the Psychosynthesis Trust.
