My specialities
Depression & Anxiety
Depression & Anxiety
Depression & Anxiety
Depression and anxiety are the two ugly sisters in the mental health family. They often appear hand in hand, feeding into each other in a frightening, vicious and painful cycle of self-castigation. Being told to 'pull your socks up' and 'get on with it' does not help. Anxiety can make us avoid situations or feelings that we normally take
Depression and anxiety are the two ugly sisters in the mental health family. They often appear hand in hand, feeding into each other in a frightening, vicious and painful cycle of self-castigation. Being told to 'pull your socks up' and 'get on with it' does not help. Anxiety can make us avoid situations or feelings that we normally take in our stride. And then we can get really down because we feel unable to do what we previously took for granted.
I understand how terrifying the fear is that this flatness, lack of motivation or even sheer misery may never go. Sometimes we just have to let it be the way it is for a while before it shifts. I can hold you in that place and help you find answers as to what is going on in your internal landscape. Please remember you haven't lost those skills and talents that once came so easily, they're just buried under this wall of pain and fear. We can break down that wall brick by brick and find peace of mind together.
Trauma & PTSD
Depression & Anxiety
Depression & Anxiety
Many people experience symptoms associated with painful and traumatic experiences. These can be major traumas or seem less significant, trivial even. If the experience happened when you were young, you did not have the adult resources you have now to deal with them.
If left un-processed and denied they will make themselves felt in our liv
Many people experience symptoms associated with painful and traumatic experiences. These can be major traumas or seem less significant, trivial even. If the experience happened when you were young, you did not have the adult resources you have now to deal with them.
If left un-processed and denied they will make themselves felt in our lives.
It can take courage to face these realities but if you do so with a therapist you have a caring ally with you to support and hold you through the experience. That makes a huge difference and is empowering and liberating.
Chronic anxiety, anger, panic, helplessness and low self-esteem are just some of feelings that can linger after traumatic events.
Sometimes feelings associated with trauma are suppressed and made known in the body through inflammatory diseases.
I can help you work through these symptoms and guide you in the process of acknowledgement, acceptance and healing.
Personal development
Depression & Anxiety
Personal development
You don't have to be ill to see a counsellor.
Maybe you want to understand why your relationships keep following the same pattern? Perhaps you want to work out how you can do your job without feeling like an imposter? Or maybe you just want to discover a more satisfying way of life.
With reflectivity and an open mind - this can be achieved
You don't have to be ill to see a counsellor.
Maybe you want to understand why your relationships keep following the same pattern? Perhaps you want to work out how you can do your job without feeling like an imposter? Or maybe you just want to discover a more satisfying way of life.
With reflectivity and an open mind - this can be achieved through therapy.
Work stress
The workplace and the interpersonal dynamics within it can replicate our relational patterns.
If work or a particular boss is the key source of stress for you, it can be helpful to understand your part in what is going on. After all that's the part you can change if you need to.
Increased awareness and clear boundaries can lead to really profound changes to the way a person feels about their working life.
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