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My approach to counselling

There are as many types of counselling as styles of cooking, and all have their merits and limitations. What I have attempted to do, is draw together a range of approaches to maximise the strengths and minimise the limitations of each of them.  I use humanistic counselling meaning that your experience is at the centre of the process, as well as cognitive approaches to help reprogram thinking patterns.  However, my main focus is around somatic therapy, which means working with how you experience the patterns of tension in your body that come with unprocessed trauma and difficult experiences.

Difficult experiences that are not released are not just stored in and affect the brainwave patterns, mind, and emotions, they are also stored in and affect the body.

Why?

Your body keeps the score

The reason for this is that difficult experiences that are not released are not just stored in and affect the brainwave patterns, mind, and emotions, they also are stored in and affect the body. You will notice this physical feeling when in an uncomfortable or difficult situation.

You experience this in part because you have millions of neurons within your body that are linked to feelings. This storing of trauma physiologically is something that somatically focused counselling works with, by helping you get in touch with how you are storing it within your body, and helping you release it in a regulating way.

The therapeutic methods I use to help you achieve this, in addition to my humanistic counselling skills, are Thought Field Therapy (TFT) and body-focused somatic counselling.