What can you expect in our work together

At the outset of our work, we will focus on identifying your counselling goals and expectations, and the therapeutic support plan, allowing you to achieve this.

We will also review the progress against these goals at regular intervals throughout our work to ensure the support you receive remains relevant.

I will be along your side and present throughout, helping you sort through the things that are difficult right now, and offer you a safe place to be open and honest without fear of judgment.

The counselling relationship is at the very heart my practice, offering you opportunity over time to reveal more of yourself, unhidden, and authentic. This way of being is often denied to us in many real-world relationships, where the normal is to hide our core centre but permit others to interact solely with the outer most fringes of our real selves.

I will endeavour to nurture this trust between us, by offering confidentiality as a core ethical principle, receiving information that you chose to share with me, with the highest respect and regard. I strive to be empathic to your feelings, not be judgemental but interested and curious in supporting deep exploration of those feelings.

I will strive to be my authentic self in your company, no hidden agenda of my own where your autonomy is recognised and encouraged. I am present with you, supporting you to re-connect to that innermost voice, allowing you to untwine in a meaningful way, which may otherwise seem like an intractable ball of tangled emotions

In this way, therapy has the power to develop a different but more positive and personally meaningful experience of being, revealing more of our innermost core.