We all have mental health just as we all have physical health, and throughout our lives we will experience times of good health and ill health. Talking and experiential therapies are a way of supporting our mental health and wellbeing.

As a person-centred therapist, I don’t have a fixed notion of how a person should be, so I’ll work with you to find a way of being together that works for you:

‘Good communication within and between people is always therapeutic’ (Carl Rogers)

Our communication might be about being heard and valued and accepted for exactly who you are.

Together we might work towards expressing emotion and speaking the unspoken, developing self-awareness and self-understanding, towards greater self-acceptance and self-compassion and reducing the (inner) critical voice or the impact of big emotions.

We might explore making changes or planning steps or reconnecting with yourself and others in ways that work better for you.

Therapy offers a breathing space where any of these things can happen.

We often grow up feeling and believing we have to be a certain kind of person and to lead our lives a certain way; we often live our lives by other people's expectations and judgements.

The challenge can be to find our own personal power in the context of our lives:

'It's a grand thing to get leave to live' (Nan Shepherd)

'I am not defined by my scars, but by the incredible ability to heal' (Lemn Sissay)