I work with individual clients on either a short-term
counselling basis or a longer term, more
psychotherapeutic approach. If you have recently experienced a specific difficulty you feel unable to deal with,
counselling can provide an opportunity to share your worries, gain insight and find a way forward. Alternatively, you may feel a more general dissatisfaction with aspects of your life or may be aware that you have often found it difficult to deal with certain situations. In this case, you may find
psychotherapy or
psychosexual therapy particularly helpful. Examples of difficulties that may bring people to counselling or psychotherapy can include:
Personal relationships (also see the Couples' Page)
Relationship problems with family, friends or work colleagues
Sexual difficulties
Difficulty in communicating with others/assertiveness
Bereavement
Stress-related problems
Depression
Emotional crisis
General dissatisfaction with lifestyle
Difficulty in finding meaning/aims in lifeI use an integrative humanistic approach, which means that I employ knowledge and experience of a range of counselling theories with my clients, drawing from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Existentialist Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy and Transactional Analysis.
