My counselling approach is genuinely listening, not only to words, but the meaning, with understanding, compassion and kindness.
The positive therapeutic relationship between a client and counsellor is everything. I use a Humanistic-Experiential approach which nurtures openness, cultivating a deeply compassionate relationship with your inner self, and acknowledging your thoughts, feelings and desires without judgment.
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
― Carl R. Rogers
Not all modalities of counselling are right for clients. My work is intuitively based, and seamlessly interwoven with what a client responds to, or how one communicates. I utilize and combine a variety of counselling models; integrative psychotherapy, which for me includes person-centred, trauma informed, family systems therapy, attachment theory, CBT, mindfulness-based, narrative, existential, solution focused, and more.
On a personal note, I have journeyed around much of the world by land, looking for people in both my own country and foreign lands, to explore their ways of life and meaning, and learned that we are all a work in progress, searching and exploring our lives endlessly.
“The privilege of a lifetime, is to become who you truly are.”
— Carl Jung
