Individual Sessions

I offer sessions for clients with concerns regarding personal growth, self-esteem, and existential issues – the ‘big questions’. My particular interest lies in offering psychological and spiritual support to you as my client, and to your loved ones, in health crisis, through healing, grief, and other aspects of dying. Pragmatic in nature myself, I also support you in identifying and accessing the relevant resources, both inner and outer, that enable you to pass through challenging times.

My training has been in a variety of therapeutic modalities, the Existential therapy approach most resonant with me. Yet alone it can be a little too cerebral, too wordy, it seems to me. I augment this, then, with some aspects of Gestalt therapy, and also with sandplay. This is – as the name suggests – a creative modality that takes one out of the head space into the creative dimension.

Sandplay is especially helpful for those of us who are kinesthetic – that is, we like to touch (and be touched!); to feel textures and shapes; to hold objects in our hands, even put them to our cheeks, and so on – and for anyone in times when words are hard to come by. It is especially helpful for children and adolescents attempting to cope with difficult situations, such as the death of a parent or their own impending demise.

Meditation (my own most significant personal resource) is another approach I offer my clients. Its many benefits – being able to relax voluntarily, emotional management, self-awareness, self-love,and clarity, to name a few – are as significant for everyday life with its routine kind of issues, as for times of crisis when we need to tap into our powers of resilience. 

Finally, (many moons ago!) I trained as a general and psychiatric nurse and as a midwife; these experiences mean that  I have a knowledge and experience of the hospital environment and how the system works (or fails to!).

Thus, my way of working acknowledges and responds to you wholistically, that is: as a person with physical, mental, emotional, creative, and spiritual aspects too.

In those times when special, intensive support is needed, I am available to live in. I feel honoured when invited to guide my clients through their dying and/or to educate a family, family member, partner or close friend in doing so. See Article: Home Deathing

                   Confidentiality, your right to privacy, is respected at all times.

I also offer meditation-based counselling for those who may be looking for a method of meditation that will suit them, or those who have any questions about their practice.
I am happy to conduct sessions via Skype for those who are facing death or supporting others in doing so.

Once I am based in the UK (from mid-August 2011) I will be available throughout Europe to work with those who are seriously ill and/or dying, their friends and family.

If you'd like to talk about how counselling or psychotherapy can help, please 
contact me.