My Approach
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Exploring long-standing patterns, unmet emotional needs and the parts of yourself that developed over time.
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Helping you understand and work with emotion as a pathway to change.
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Recognising patterns of thinking and behaviour that contribute to emotional distress.
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Exploring how relationships, communication and life transitions influence wellbeing.
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Developing psychological flexibility and living in line with your values.
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Chairwork uses dialogue to externalise and explore different parts of ourselves or unresolved relationships with others, helping to deepen understanding and shift longstanding emotional patterns.
Every person’s story is different, and therapy should make room for that.
My work is grounded in a humanistic, experiential and evidence informed approach to psychotherapy. I draw on established therapeutic approaches while remaining responsive to you, your experiences and what emerges in our work together.
Rather than working from a single model, I bring these approaches together thoughtfully according to you and the work we are doing together.
A therapeutic presence
I believe therapy asks for more than simply listening.
I aim to be fully present with you, attentive, emotionally engaged and actively trying to understand your experience from the inside. This gives us space to slow things down, notice what is happening and work with it together.
Understanding
We begin by making sense of what is happening for you.
Together, we develop a shared understanding of your experiences, emotions, relationships and patterns. We look at how these may have developed, what keeps them going and the needs that may sit underneath them.
Understanding matters, but knowing why something happens is not always enough to change it.
Experiencing
Sometimes we need to do more than talk about what is happening.
At times, I may use imagery or chair work to slow things down and help you connect with feelings and experiences that can be difficult to reach through conversation alone. This allows us to work more directly with what is happening rather than only understanding it from a distance.
There is no pressure to work in a particular way. We go at a pace that feels manageable and decide together what feels helpful.
Change
Real change often involves more than understanding why we feel the way we do.
As we begin to experience emotions and familiar patterns differently, there can be more room for choice. Old ways of relating to yourself and others may begin to soften and different responses can become possible.
The aim is not to become a different person. It is to have greater freedom in how you live, relate and respond to what matters to you.
Beyond the therapy room
What matters is how the work begins to translate into your life.
Over time, greater self understanding and emotional awareness can influence the choices you make, your relationships and the way you respond to yourself when life is difficult.
If you feel I might be a good fit for you, get in touch.