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Gestalt therapy offers a regular time and place for you to explore your emotions and draw on your innate creative potential to live well.

People come to therapy or counselling for different reasons.

You may be experiencing some kind of suffering, like feeling anxious in situations where you don’t want to feel anxious. Or you may feel low and out of touch with a sense of creativity or vitality. You may be finding it difficult to form or keep relationships with partners, family or friends. Maybe it is some combination of these.

These kinds of experiences can be very painful and difficult to navigate alone, especially if you are feeling stuck. You may want to find ways to experience more calm and a better connection to yourself and others. Or you might want to be able to be more present in your life and experience more joy.

Finding the right kind of support for you can turn things around. Counselling can support you to heal while experiencing care and empathy. It can also be an effective way of overcoming difficulties around intimacy or creating close connections with others.

We work together, exploring the present moment, looking at unhelpful patterns and experimenting with creating new ones in a safe space. This offers a combination of support and useful challenge. I see therapy as a doorway to bringing more creativity and connection into life. This can offer a new or renewed sense of being at home in yourself.

I know how hard it is to struggle with difficult emotions and feel stuck with them. I have dedicated over a decade to learning how to support people to move through suffering and experience more freedom and joy in life. I like to work collaboratively with you to nurture your potential for growth and change.

It can sometimes feel hard to reach out and take the first step forward. I aim to make that process as easy and comfortable for you as possible. It’s great you’re looking for support. Life can be more enjoyable and satisfying.

I'm a UKCP accredited Gestalt Therapist and I trained in online therapy via an ACTO (Association for Counselling and Therapy Online) approved route. Gestalt therapy is an approach to counselling that supports you to tap into your inner resources and find your own creative way of moving beyond suffering and experiencing more joy and satisfaction. I am a member of GPTI (Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institute) and fully insured. I offer work in person or online, or a mixture of both.

I am also a fully insured Feldenkrais practitioner. Feldenkrais is a method of body work which supports people to let go of habitual patterns of holding and experience more ease and a deeper sense of connection with their bodies. I offer:  

Therapy: therapy is an open-ended commitment which allows you to work at depth with more embedded patterns (whether they are ways of feeling or ways of relating to others). It can space to really get to know yourself, connect with a sense of true purpose in life and improve your sense of self-worth.  It can see you through a crisis and can also be used to find out what flourishing means for you beyond once a crisis has passed. It is an organic process and usually ends when you decide you have reached a point of satisfaction with the level of change you experience.  

Sessions last 50 mins and cost £65, in person or online. It is a weekly commitment, although sometimes people opt to come twice a week to start with.  

Counselling: a focused, limited number of sessions about a specific issue you are facing. These sessions are a weekly commitment and happen at the same time each week (although if you are a shift worker we might be able to work out a different pattern).  Sessions last 50 minutes and cost £65, in person or online. While the focus and aims are different, the methods I use in counselling and therapy are similar.

For more information on Therapy and Counselling, see What to expect  


Embodiment sessions: Combined Gestalt and Feldenkrais sessions. These sessions are gestalt therapy sessions which integrate Feldenkrais Awareness Though Movement methods. They offer a way of developing a deep connection with your body to nurture groundedness, authenticity and creativity.  In these sessions, you can explore emotional or psychological issues as they are experienced in your body.The Awareness Through Movement methods support you to nurture your body’s innate resourced and find a grounded and authentic response to these issues.  

Sessions are a weekly commitment: you will decide on an initial number of sessions and then review what is needed next (for example, it could be more of the same, or shorter sessions or moving on to other types of exploration more grounded in gestalt). 

Sessions last 80 minutes and cost £85, in person only. For more information see Embodiment work

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“Slowing down and becoming curious is a gateway to creation” - Sharon Blackie

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