Psychotherapy
I offer a safe, non-judgmental space where you can explore life’s challenges and move through difficulty with support. Whether you’re experiencing emotional pain, disconnection, anxiety, depression, shame, loneliness, or loss – every part of you is welcome here.
Therapy isn’t just about working with suffering – it’s also about reconnecting with what makes you come alive. Together, we can explore paths toward wholeness, purpose, and meaning in your life.
My Therapeutic Approach
I practice Core Process Psychotherapy, a depth approach that integrates mindfulness with Western psychotherapeutic understanding. This approach is:
- Embodied – attending to how experiences and emotions live in your body
- Depth-oriented – exploring the deeper patterns that shape your life
- Trauma-informed -understanding how past experience shapes our present
- Relational – working through the therapeutic relationship we build together
- Mindfulness-based – nurturing awareness of your present experience
At the heart of this approach is an understanding that beneath life’s difficulties lies a core of freedom and wholeness that is already within you. Through therapy, we can work together to uncover this aliveness, helping you live and relate more authentically.
Working Together
Initial Session
We begin with a free initial session (up to 1 hour) to:
- Meet each other and explore what brings you to therapy
- Discuss how we might work together
- Answer any questions you have
- Ensure we’re a good fit for working together
Ongoing Sessions
If we decide to work together:
- We initially contract for 6 sessions, with a review point to check how things are going
- Sessions are 1 hour long
- We meet weekly at a regular time
- Current fee is £40 per session (reduced rate as a senior trainee psychotherapist)
Professional Standards
Your wellbeing and safety are paramount:
- All my work is fully supervised and insured
- I am registered with UKCP and ACPP
- I follow the UKCP code of ethics
- I engage in regular professional development
Taking the Next Step
If you’re interested in exploring therapy with me, please get in touch through my website contact form at the top or on the contact page to arrange an initial session. You’re welcome to email me with any questions before we meet.
FAQs
My training in Core Process Psychotherapy (CPP) is a mindfulness based psychotherapy that is integrative, incorporating Western psychodynamic approaches with Eastern Buddhist embodied and awareness practice. It is a psychotherapy that works at depth and is embodied and relational. I offer each individual the possibility to be met and supported in their own unique process of self-discovery.
Core process psychotherapists are trained at the internationally renowned Karuna Institute. The core process approach offers a unique fusion of Eastern and Western teachings about the mind and body, drawing on ancient Buddhist teachings of how and why we experience suffering, and integrating this with well-established Western psychotherapeutic approaches.
Core process psychotherapy is a powerful, non-pathologising (not framed through the lens of mental illness) way of meeting the rich and varied reasons that lead us to begin therapy. It’s an approach to therapy which can help us to reframe experiences that we may initially experience as negative, as positive opportunities for deep, transformative and lasting change.
In core process psychotherapy, the shared therapeutic journey between the therapist and the client is called joint practice. Both the therapist and the client embark on a journey of self-discovery; a journey that requires two people to be willing and open to whatever arises in the therapeutic space.
If interested to read more about the Core Process approach you can read this article.
If interested in working together, please contact me to arrange an initial meeting. Our first session would be free and last up to an hour. During this meeting I would ask you to say a little more about what you are looking for support with, explain more about how I work and answer any questions you may have. Finding the right therapist for you is the most important first step, this first session allows us to see if we’re a good fit for each other. If we decided to work together, we would normally contract for an initial 6 sessions and have a review point to see how things are going.
During our first session we would read through and agree a contract – this sets out important information, such as confidentiality as well as practical information like if you needed to cancel a session, holidays and fees, so that you can have clear expectations about our work together and assurance of my professional standards. The remainder of our first session would involve you telling me more about yourself, your history as well as your hopes and intentions of the therapeutic process. I will tell you more about how I work and answer any questions you might have.
For all new clients initially we would agree to 6 x weekly sessions. On the sixth session we would take some time to review our work so far and decide together what would support you further. During an initial meeting we would take time to discuss the type of support you are looking for and what possible time frames would offer.
Sessions last 1 hour, are weekly, and cost £40. This is a reduced rate as I am a UKCP trainee therapist.
Yes. Please get in touch to discuss.
