Psychotherapy and counselling studio in Hampshire
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Psychotherapy & Counselling

How I can help

As a counsellor and integrative psychotherapist, I work in a variety of ways and draw on a number of approaches, to help you understand what your emotions are telling you and the impact your feelings are having on your ability to live your fullest, most content and peaceful life today.

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    Psychotherapy & Counselling

    One to one integrative psychotherapy in Hampshire or online, as well as counselling and mindfulness. We can work on a goal you’d like to achieve, aspect of your life or issue that you are struggling with and want to overcome.

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    Mindfulness for Midlife

    An introduction to Mindfulness in a supportive, nurturing environment, as an invitation to pause for a couple of hours over a course of 4 weekly sessions and engage in a guided meditation and insightful discussion.

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    Awakening Your Enchantress

    Are you experiencing changes in your body and curious about gently and lovingly stepping into your inner world and finding out what these changes are wanting you to know about yourself? This new course is for you.

One to one Counselling, Integrative Psychotherapy and Mindfulness

Counselling tends to be more short term (usually 12 sessions). You may be stuck in a negative thought pattern or anxiety is preventing you from living your life fully.

You may have a goal you’d like to achieve or want to focus on a particular aspect of your life or issue that you are struggling with and want to overcome.

Psychotherapy is more in depth and focuses on your early life experiences and how they inform and impact your life today.

When you uncover these, often using creative visualisations and dream exploration, you will find belief systems and coping strategies that are negatively impacting your overall wellbeing.

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With this awareness you have space to process the issues you are trying to resolve and over time develop new and more helpful and rewarding ways of living and being.

This gives you a sense of freedom and helps you feel more confident to express yourself from your true and authentic self.

Mindfulness is woven into my practice as I find it a beautiful and heart centred way to connect to your body and regulate emotions. With regular practice it helps you feel more confident and at peace within yourself.

Please contact me for information on my fees.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • I offer support in many areas including loss and bereavement, life changes and challenges, relationship issues, anxiety, depression and addiction.

  • During an initial telephone call or Zoom meeting you will share with me a little about your reason for wanting to come for counselling or psychotherapy. We can then explore together which one feels most helpful and manageable for you at this time in your life.

  • I have found that by developing a healthy habit of practicing mindfulness and meditation, no matter for how small or short a time every day, it awakens and reconnects me to a peaceful and more expansive space inside myself that helps me rebalance. This is deeply restorative and life enhancing.

  • That as well as uncovering unhealthy ways of being, you have many healthy ones that you want to reawaken. Over time and by cultivating loving kindness and self-compassion, your new habits will become a rewarding and normal way of being.

If you have more questions, please get in touch.

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