Psychotherapy
I offer a safe, non-judgmental space to be supported as you move through difficulty and suffering whether it be emotional pain, anxiety, depression, shame, loneliness or loss. Therapy can also support you to reconnect with what makes you come alive – with wholeness, purpose and meaning. Every part of you is welcome here and there are no subjects that cannot be explored.
Core Process Psychotherapy
Core process is an approach to psychotherapy that is relational and embodied, integrating mindfulness with Western psychotherapeutic approaches. It is working at depth, with an understanding that no matter how difficult your experience might be in this moment, there is a core of you which is already free and whole. In this life’s journey, from our earliest experience we learn to protect those vulnerable and free parts of ourselves as we make contact with an uncertain and sometimes difficult world. The work is about uncovering this already free and alive part of ourselves, so we can live more freely and feel our full aliveness.
This is a long-term path of moving toward a more authentic way of living and relating, of being with difficult experience and emotions and finding freedom, meaning and connection.
How I work
If interested in working with me, we would have a free initial session of up to 1 hour to find our more about each other and if we are good fit.
After this session, if we decided to work together, we would initially contract for 6 sessions to give us a review point to check how things are going.
Sessions are 1 hour long, weekly at the same time, and cost £40. This is a reduced rate as I am a trainee therapist.
My work is fully supervised and insured, and I am a member of the UKCP and ACPP and follow their code of ethics.
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.
I don’t work online. I work from a private therapy room in Bristol. You can find the address and details on my contact page.
