About Me

What different types of therapy I can offer: 

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As an Integrative Psychotherapist, I can offer you a combined approach that brings together different elements of specific theories.  The advantage of this is that sessions can be tailored to suit your needs.  Here are some examples of approaches that I may use during our sessions:​

• Person-Centred - based on the view that everyone has the capacity and desire for personal growth and change, given the right conditions. Rather than being seen as the expert and directing the therapy, the therapist offers unconditional positive regard, empathy and congruence to help you come to terms with any negative feelings and to change and develop in your own way. 

• Humanistic - focuses on the individual as a whole. It encourages you to think about your feelings and take responsibility for your thoughts and actions. The emphasis is on self-development and achieving your highest potential rather than on problematic behaviour.

• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) – can help understand your thoughts and feelings that influence your behaviour and manage problems by changing the way you think and behave.  I can provide self-help worksheets to help learn different coping strategies.

• Psychodynamics – based on unconscious thoughts and perceptions that have been developed through childhood experiences.

• Interpersonal (IPT) - focuses on relationships., particularly around bereavement, conflict and life changes. The aim to help identify any patterns or problems in your relationships with other people so you can work out strategies for coping with these.

• Gestalt - focuses on the here and now and your immediate thoughts, feelings and behaviour to better understand how you relate to others and to situations. This can help you find a new, positive perspective on problems and bring about changes in your life.

• Psychosynthesis - sometimes described as ‘psychology of the soul’, this approach seeks to bring together your emotional, mental, physical and spiritual attributes to encourage personal development.

• Solution-focused therapy - promotes positive change rather than dwelling on past problems by encouraging you to focus positively on what you do well, set goals and work out how to achieve them.

• Existential Existential psychotherapy - explores the inner conflict and anxiety people may experience when confronted with life's ultimate concerns, such as the inevitability of death, freedom and its responsibilities, isolation and meaninglessness. Existentialists believe that life has no essential (given) meaning and that you have to make your own sense of the world. Therapists can help you confront your anxieties and negative thoughts, enabling you to make decisions about how to live life and deal with life problems in your own way.

• Transactional analysis - is a comprehensive approach which incorporates aspects of humanistic, cognitive-behavioural and psychodynamic therapy. It categorises the human personality into three states – Parent, Adult and Child – which can help you understand how you interact with others. Therapists also look at how your beliefs and the way you interpret the world around you can create recurrent and problematic patterns of behaviour, and will work with you to help you to change.

• ACT (Acceptance and commitment therapy) - to help improve your ‘psychological flexibility’. To learn skills that help you manage thoughts, feelings and sensations that you avoid and are fearful of.

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