Groups
There are huge advantages to group therapy, including the opportunity to learn both more about yourself and about how others experience you, and to change in a deep and lasting way. Groups nurture intimate conversation, and when facilitated by a therapist you can be heard and seen, and participants can collaborate and learn from one another. Realising you are not alone is an incredibly powerful experience.
Group therapy can be supportive, enhance general well-being and facilitate personal development, but is also very effective when dealing with a common issue such as eating disorders. When our embodied experience becomes problematic the power of connecting with others struggling in similar ways can enable emotional, social, and relational growth. In seeing others we can be seen, in hearing others we can be heard. When we find the confidence to emerge as ourselves, then the power of old coping mechanism such as damaging behaviour with food, exercise and other substances fades away.
Some of the benefits of group therapy are listed above, you can contact me directly to find out about availability and dates for current and future group work.
Realise and challenge patterns of dealing with life and relationships
Learn to give and receive feedback to others in a positive and clear way
Work with difficult feelings and responses to others in a supportive environment
Allows you to participate as much or as little as you like
Develop a greater awareness of how you relate to yourself and others
Foster the availability to be vulnerable and authentic alongside others
“Exposure to one’s own problems and pain as they are experienced in the lives of the others facing you can bring about change of an unforeseen kind with far-reaching consequences”
– Schlapobersky
My Approach
Informed by a variety of psychotherapeutic means rooted in training, research and experience, I offer a respectful and confidential space to explore all aspects of life from personal development to difficult health conditions or situations, unique to each individual. Together we can increase understanding, allow emotional healing and assist recovery - we can slow things down and take stock, allowing for new choices and opportunities to emerge.
My approach to therapy is positive and practical: I believe that psychotherapy enables people to make sense of their problems in the hope that they can make decisions about what they want to do to bring about change in their lives. It provides a means of support and a space where you can feel valued and heard. This is not a time when you are going to be told what to do or what to believe. Therapy is about sharing, exploring and challenging. My job is to help you put problems into context, to challenge your way of thinking, to empathise with the way you feel.
Depending on what is right for each client at any given moment, therapy might involve talking something through, using creative means, working with meditation, Mindfulness or Focusing, or simply offering a safe space to be heard. At the core of my work is the connection between myself and the clients, and an honest and trustworthy commitment to being with you in our sessions.