I provide counselling to adults (18+) individually or as a couple to navigate challenges in their relationships and with parenting issues.
Sessions can be in person in Godalming, Surrey, or nationwide via Zoom.
I use a wide range of different therapies to help you overcome personal problems and relationships issues.
Individual counselling for adults can help with a wide range of issues from mental health and wellbeing to decision making and getting to know yourself better.
When choosing a counsellor its important that you feel safe to talk about anything, to make sure you feel that with me I offer a free 15 minute phone call.
Couples and relationship therapy can help you to overcome the challenges in your relationship and make space for intimacy, effective communication and rebuild trust with the person you love.
To make sure you all parties feel comfortable talking to me I offer a free 20 minute call to get to know each other a little and make sure we're a good fit.
For in person sessions we'll meet in my bright and peaceful room at Surrey Holistic in Godalming, set back behind the Highstreet.
My room is accessed by a single flight of stairs and is situated at the end of a quiet corridor.
For remote counselling sessions we'll meet via Zoom, a secure video platform. The joy of online counselling is that you can access it from any space you feel safe with a warming drink or the comfort of familiar surroundings.
The aim of somatic therapy is to help you release pent-up trauma to regulate your nervous system. Combining body and mind-focused therapeutic approaches, somatic experiencing encourages us to reconnect with our physical self to understand our emotional self. Our feelings are thought to impact our bodies physically and the idea behind somatic therapy is to identify and release negative emotions that have become stuck in our bodies. These emotions, such as stress and trauma, are believed to contribute to physical symptoms including chronic pain. Being able to recognise when certain emotions come up physically allows us to release the physical tension and work through them more easily. Using somatic techniques can help us resolve physical symptoms so we are more easily able to address the psychological symptoms.
Compassion-focused therapy looks at evolution theory and how this affects the way we think. CFT also helps us generate emotions that can help change our thought patterns - like compassion. The brain is designed to create kindness, compassion, and more protective emotions like stress and anxiety. CFT is a very effective treatment to help with self-critical thoughts. Research has found that by developing our compassion, we can positively affect our brain and immune system.