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Psychological therapy tailored to your needs
Specialist psychological therapy, mindfulness teaching and support for chronic pain and long-term health conditions.
Services
Specialist psychological therapy, mindfulness teaching and support for chronic pain and long-term health conditions.
Therapy provides the opportunity to have regular sessions with a therapist in a safe and confidential environment. Therapy can provide a non-judgemental and safe space to discuss challenging, complex and, sometimes, painful issues. Some people want to focus on a current difficulty that they are struggling to resolve and may want a few sessions to support them through a difficult time. Others may have identified reoccurring problems that can be self-sabotaging, and they may want to see their therapist for longer so they can address more deep-rooted issues.
Whatever brings you to therapy, working with a therapist that you trust in a non-judgemental, supportive and confidential environment can be a transformative experience.
Mindfulness is a meditation practice which seeks to cultivate awareness of the present moment. Over time, mindfulness allows us to see more clearly how we react to what arises in our lives and helps us make wiser choices about how to respond.
Mindfulness is rooted in ancient wisdom and practices. In the last 50 years, there has been a growing interest in whether mindfulness can help with some of the challenges of modern life. Programmes have been developed that combine mindful practices with modern psychological understanding. These programmes are generally delivered as 8-week courses and have been shown in clinical research trials to be effective in helping people reduce stress, anxiety and depression. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in the UK recommends Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy as a treatment for recurrent depression. There is also a growing body of evidence to suggest that mindfulness can help individuals living with long-term physical health conditions or chronic pain.
Mindfulness can help all of us to improve our wellbeing, and to find peace and contentment in our often busy and demanding lives. Mindfulness for Wellbeing explores how to:
Mindfulness teaching is largely experiential, with meditation practices and cognitive exercises that help participants cultivate a new way of working with difficulties that arise in life, and a different way of relating to ourselves and others — a way that promotes more contentment, appreciation, wisdom and compassion.
I offer individual Mindfulness sessions and 8-week Mindfulness courses. Please contact me to enquire further.
Chronic pain and long-term conditions can wear away at mood, sleep, relationships, work, identity and hope. It's exhausting, and it's often invisible to others — which can leave you feeling isolated and unheard.
Psychological therapy doesn't suggest the pain is "in your head." It recognises that living with pain and illness is genuinely hard, and that how we relate to it — the fear, the frustration, the sense of loss — has a real effect on how we cope and how we live.
Using approaches like ACT and Compassion Focused Therapy, we will work on living well alongside difficulties that may not simply disappear: reducing the secondary suffering, reconnecting with what matters to you, and rebuilding a life that feels like yours again.
A brief, no-obligation phone call is the easiest place to start. We'll talk through what you're looking for and whether we'd be a good fit.
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