Our coping mechanisms served an important purpose at one time but become unhelpful later A bri life. We will look at letting go of what doesn’t work anymore. Research proves that the most important element in counselling and psychotherapy is the quality of the relationship between two people as fellow human beings. It is strangely subtle, validates who you are, how you really feel, and is very different from being told what to do. Here you can be known and understood. I will be curious, observe, listen, and reflect what I hear from your experience.
Mind and body are interconnected – one will affect the other. When we remember to connect them together, and become whole, something happens. I can help you to reconnect and find your own potent energy. To help and illustrate how I work I use a combination of different therapies based on Transactional Analysis. These therapies include Gestalt Therapy, looking at fixed patterns of relating to ourselves and others, and Jungian theory enabling our bringing of awareness of our unconscious mind, to discover our hidden selves and allow them space to be known.
A brief summary of Transactional Analysis:
‘Life Script’ A decision made when we were young about how we wanted to be in order to survive and perform in an uncertain world.
We would have had beliefs about ourselves and others that we now still hold on to.
We might look at how we can recognise them, see and understand how they provided the defence we needed at that time. We can discover, know and accept ourselves, so we can heal, renew and flourish.