Specialisms and
Interests

Anxiety and Depression

These are among the most common challenges in mental health, often linked to deeper issues in our present life and our past story. I approach anxiety and depression through a transpersonal lens, focusing on what is emerging from these experiences – what the personality is saying about what it wants to be, as well as focusing on how to deal with the debilitating experience of anxiety or depression.

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We will also explore the broader existential context—how personal, relational, and global pressures may contribute to the pressures we feel. There is a lot to be anxious and depressed about in the world.  While we cannot always change these external factors, we can change how we relate to them and explore if these dynamics are present for you.

Addiction

I volunteer at an addiction service in my community, working with clients suffering with addiction issues. This can be addiction to a substance, or other addictive behaviours such as pornography, gambling, shopping or social media.

I hold a trauma-informed approach to working with addiction, believing that addiction is a creative mechanism we utilise to avoid pain or the terror of non-being. As a transpersonal counsellor I also hold a psychospiritual perspective of addiction – that there may be needs, beyond personal, that are not being met.

If you are attempting to deal with an addiction then I advise the support of a recovery programme alongside your counselling. This is something we will discuss in your initial interview.

Grief & Endings

We are often very bad at endings. Thinking about them, acknowledging them, accepting them. This is what makes the process of exploring the grief so important. The grief that comes from experiencing endings of all kinds – from the loss of a loved one to the many other ways grief shows up in our life; the endings of relationships, dreams, stages of life, jobs.

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I view grief work as the creation of a space to process the unresolved. To express the things we never got to say, the feelings we have not allowed ourselves to feel and to transform the hopes that were taken from us into something new that can carry us onward rather than holding us back.

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I have always felt it a deep honour to have guided clients through the delicate process of grief and I would be honoured if that is something you would like to explore with me also.