Inner Wilderness
Psychotherapeutic Counselling
I work with individuals and couples, in person and online, and with a wide range of issues – including but not limited to bereavement, depression, trauma, relationship and family issues, and career or life stage issues (including childlessness, illness and menopause). Coming for counselling offers you the chance to talk about the issues and challenges you are facing, and to explore some of life's big questions in a way which facilitates understanding and sustainable change. It can be short or longer-term, depending on your needs.
Life is difficult, and counselling provides an objective perspective which can help you to understand some of the deeply embedded patterns which help and hinder you. We humans often unintentionally hurt ourselves and others, and counselling can help you to find a different way. It can also help you to connect to a more soulful way of being in the world. All human beings need space for reflection, time in nature and to connect with their creative essence in order to thrive, but many of us have lost touch with these aspects leading to disillusionment, depression, illness and exhaustion.
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
Marion Woodman
I work somatically, or neurobiologically - I have come to believe this is fundamental as we cannot think our way out of situations which hi-jack our nervous systems, no matter how hard we try. Our make-up is such that we need to learn about neurobiology and equip ourselves with the right tools. If we work together, you can expect to explore what is happening contextually and also within you. Don’t worry if that sounds unfamiliar – I can help you to identify this. You can also expect a systemic perspective – one that takes the widest possible view of what ails you. The integration of mind, body and spirit is central to how I work, as is the belief that we are influenced by our intergenerational stories.
