How I Help

Providing Everything You Need

Life and Business Coaching

" The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.." Jurgen Klopp

On our life journey, we can be presented with a "speed bump" or two in our personal life or career. Initially it can be a time of some difficulty.
Space is needed to reassess what's been happening, how we got to this conundrum, what are the options in front of us and, most especially, what is the best thing to do next.

Learning to view situations from a different perspective can help us see them as, possibly, hidden opportunities!

Having worked in management roles for over 16 years, before training as a psychotherapist, I have a clear business perspective on career issues.

To really tackle a particular problem takes time and discussion with someone who can give that objective and experienced perspective, and the tools to move forward.

Coaching sessions can be for a set period of time - 4 - 6 sessions initially and thereafter on an Ad Hoc basis.

Counselling

" People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right-hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”
― Carl R. Rogers, A Way of Being

Emotional difficulties can create many other problems in our lives. There can be a feeling of "deja vu" about some situations where it feels like we're on "repeat" as the same emotional response is being triggered by certain situations. And while friends and family can be helpful - sometimes they can be part of the problem.

Talking to a non-judgemental and objective person is what counselling is all about. Depending on how "knotty" the problem is, the recommended number of weekly sessions will usually be between 6 and 10.

Psychotherapy

"The best way out is always through.." Robert Frost

Usually people engage with psychotherapy (counselling at a deeper level) when emotional issues have been resurfacing over a long time and nothing seems to change.

In simple terms the difference from counselling is that the work takes place over a longer period of time - usually for a period of 3 to 6 months (this depends on the complexity of the issues) and the work is done at a deeper and more unconscious level.

As client and psychotherapist we try to understand what might be causing the seemingly endless repetition. We then focus on how dealing with it at a very fundamental level might help change the client's perspective to a more useful and more self-aware one for the future.

Psychoanalysis

"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” Sigmund Freud

A much deeper analysis of one's life which, yes, does take place on the couch.
Most people who undergo psychoanalysis come to it after a period of psychotherapy.
However, it is about you as an individual... It is about hearing yourself speak, with less intervention by the therapist.
You work at an unconscious level, using "free association" and dream analysis which according to Freud is "the royal road to the unconscious"

This work aims to lead to self-discovery and hopefully acceptance.... and perhaps a realisation that who you are is actually pretty ok after all!