Adults

It can be helpful to make a distinction between counselling and psychotherapy in my own practice, to help clients understand the ways in which I work. Counselling is generally confined to a limited number of goals and is reliant on the use of specific strategies to achieve a desired outcome in a relatively short amount of time. Psychotherapy, on the other hand, works towards the resolution of long standing issues and habitual patterns of behaviour, creating change at a deeper structural level. Helping clients to express what they need from therapy, and then tracking this over a number of sessions, means that working with me can be both strategy-based and focused on one or two particular outcomes, or may be more open-ended and working towards a new way of being in the world. In both cases, I frequently check-in with clients to gain their feedback about what is working or not working, and what they are looking for as our work continues. The setting of goals is not confined to the beginning of working together, but instead is part of an ongoing process.  

 

I work with adults who are experiencing challenges around:

 

• Anxiety and Depression

• Managing anger

• Decision-making 

• Relational difficulties

• Emotion regulation

• Attachment disturbances

• Life transitions

• Grief and loss