There are times in life when we can all feel emotional distress and pain, confusion or shame in response to life events such as redundancy, deteriorating social, family or work relationships, illness, bereavement or traumatic experiences.

It can help to have a safe, confidential and non judgemental space to start to speak with a caring other of what is feeling too difficult to voice to those we are close to.....or perhaps it feels like there is no one close enough to talk to. Counselling is a space to begin to speak of some of these difficult thoughts, to release some of the emotions and to experience the accompanying relief, to understand the internal and external conflicts that exist and to begin to see with more clarity, the validity of your own feelings and experience. You can begin to sense more vividly what needs you have and how to act on them.

Counselling is a collaborative experience with you leading the process with what you want to address and with some idea of what you would like to gain from counselling, and with me accompanying you along the way with my openness to you, my capacity for empathic respect and my many years of experience and training.

Our counselling relationship together is important. It is a safe place for you to feel received and understood by me. However, it is also good to be prepared for some of the tensions and difficulties you can feel within your friendships and family relationships to arise between us. I promise to meet these with respectful authenticity. This can be a true gift of counselling for both of us to openly explore and hopefully resolve and from which we can both mutually grow.