In-Person & Online | Shepperton, Surrey
Your heart and soul restored
Your Journey
Why you are looking for counselling right now is unique to you, and is important.
I’ve listed below some of the mental and emotional challenges that might have led you to this point. However you will have your own words for why you are looking for therapy, and this is what we will work through together – your world as you experience it. We will seek to find clarity and insight around why you feel the way you do, and to move towards a place of restored peace, purpose and sense of self.
You are not feeling yourself – something feels wrong or uneasy.
You experience low mood or depression.
You are struggling to cope at work or home, feeling anxious, stressed and overwhelmed.
You find yourself carrying out harmful habits or addictive behaviour.
You are grieving, having lost someone or something of huge importance to you.
You have experienced trauma in the past, and as a result you now experience anxiety or other symptoms which negatively impact your life.
What else might you add? What are you carrying with you today? Your own experience is what matters, and is what we will explore together and help you process and work through. If your thoughts, feelings or behaviour are causing you suffering in some way, you are welcome here.
How Therapeutic Counselling can help you
Through our sessions together, I will help you process your thoughts and feelings, leading to a sense of relief and clarity as you understand more about why you feel the way you do.
Our therapeutic relationship will provide you with a safe space to explore past experiences that cause you pain and discomfort in the present, and also to work through recent experiences that feel overwhelming and are impacting your day to day wellbeing. You will also have an opportunity to better understand your attachment style and how you relate to others, and in so doing help you enrich and strengthen your own personal relationships.
At the core of my model is the belief that all people have the ability to heal, grow and change, given the right therapeutic environment. When the right conditions are available to us, I believe that we naturally develop a stronger sense of self, clearer boundaries between ourselves and others, and a freedom to experience each moment as it comes, rather than living anxiously in the future or painfully in the past. These are the conditions that I seek to offer you through counselling, enabling you to organically grow and heal from within.
As you experience a therapeutic relationship where you are not judged and are accepted as you are, you receive an opportunity to deepen your sense of self-worth as you discover that your value is not connected to anyone else’s expectations of you, but is found simply in who you are.
What to expect in a therapeutic counselling session
As an integrative counsellor, I draw on a number of different counselling theories including Person Centred Theory, Gestalt, Psychodynamic Theory and Transactional Analysis. I also integrate Kübler-Ross’s theory of grief to help you work through your own grief and loss where relevant to you.
At times I will invite you to work creatively, using writing, art, objects or movement to explore your feelings and experience. This can be a powerful way to express what sometimes can’t be spoken in words, and to connect with your whole self as a way to find healing. You don’t need to see yourself as creative for this to help you, you simply need to be open to explore.
Sessions last for 50 minutes, and take place at the same day and time each week.
We will review regularly to ensure we are working together towards your goals for counselling, and we will both sign a written Working Agreement that describes what we can expect from each other throughout the counselling relationship.
I am committed to working in accordance with the BACP Ethical Framework which outlines best practice for counselling, including confidentiality, data protection, on-going learning and development and required supervision to practise.
Location
The counselling space is a peaceful cabin with privacy and calm to help you connect with how you are feeling.
10 minutes walk from Shepperton Station and Shepperton High Street.
Free parking directly outside, and riverside cafés nearby if you want to reflect and relax before or after the session.
Prices
Individual Therapeutic Counselling Session £65
Student Rate (limited availability) £45
Cancellations
Up to four cancelled sessions per year are not charged for. This offers flexibility around illness and unforeseen circumstances.
You will receive the full Cancellation Policy after booking your first session.
For any other questions you are welcome to contact me at [email protected].
Click on the link below to book your session.
