If you’ve had therapy before or if you are interested in understanding the models and techniques of counselling and psychotherapy that I work with, this page may help provide that detail for you.

I have an integrative approach to counselling, which means I draw upon several different models and a range of techniques to inform the way I work.   I draw from Gestalt, Person Centred and Transactional Analysis modalities utilising techniques from CBT and NLP.  For work specifically with CSA (Childhood Sexual Abuse) survivors I also work closely to Parks Inner Child Therapy (PICT) Model with influences from the trauma work of Bessel Van der Kolk, Richard Schwartz and Peter Levine.

This is not a random or eclectic approach but more a selected integration of models and techniques that allows flexibility to tailor the way that I work with people.

When I work with a client it is a collaboration.  We will work together to safely explore the parts of your life and your self that may be giving concern or distress.  We may explore and be informed by past events in your life, though it is the here and now where we will generally be focused in our work to find realistic pathways forwards and positive change.

In longer term work or where there is a block in finding aspects that need attention, I offer the opportunity to work with techniques and resources that can help navigate gently to identify and shift any stuckness or barriers.  Some of these techniques and resources might include working with sand, writing, drawing, animals, trees, water, visualisation.  Which resources or techniques that we choose will based around what you feel most comfortable with.

Something to remember with counselling and any kind of talk therapy is that above all, it is the therapeutic relationship that is often the most empowered part of the work.  You are not here to be fixed or advised even. I will notice and I will encourage curiosity.  Sometimes I might gently challenge you.  I will hold the space and keep you safe in it.  I will listen and you will be heard.  Really heard.