Welcome to Counselling and Psychotherapy
Safe – Secure – Private – Confidential – Protected Space
Do you often experience difficult feelings and situations that have a familiar flavour?
Are you contributing to these repeating patterns?
Have your early experiences primed us to expect certain outcomes from self, others and the world.
Feeling Alone, separate
Angry- without really knowing why.
Sad
A Safe Space to work things through.
Short Term- here and now Crisis
Long Term 1-2 times a week- Address more ingrained/established/reoccurring/persistent issues, feelings.
Including allowing time + space to examine how early experiences and traumas have left their mark on our inner world. I sometimes conceptualize these ‘Marks on the Inner World’ as a knot in a tree. We grow around these knots, which may or not be visible from the outside, but they affect how we grow; often affecting our perceptions and expectations of ourselves, others and the world. Unfortunately these expectations can then become self-fulfilling as we unconsciously find people and situations to play out ourpatterns of interactions. This tends to end up reaffirming those familiar thoughts / feelings about self, others and the world. These ‘Life Positions’ can be: Joyless, Loveless, Mindlessness.
Definition of Trauma: what did not happen that should have as we grew up. Not getting the things/ support we needed.
What did happen that should not have. Our boundaries not being respected/ breached – physical, sexual and emotional abuse.
It can be helpful to talk things through with an impartial person unrelated to you and events in your life. Who is on your side but has outside perspective, a theoretical frame work and is experience in supporting change.
