Welcome! Thank you for visiting my website.
Please feel free to contact me about any of the following counselling services:
Counselling Services
- Children
- Couples and relationship issues
- Personal development
- Stress and anxiety
- Grief
So you can get a feel for my approach to therapy here are some of my thoughts:
My thoughts in working with: Children
· Need involvement with family as change can only be limited if working only with the child – child has limited power in a family to initiate change
· Is playful – ‘follow’ the child (use the activity that child is drawn to) and look for therapeutic opportunities - use a variety of activities – sand tray, play dough, paint, drawing, writing, drama, reading, games, blocks, dressing-up, puppets
· Access the child’s ideas on how to address difficult issues
My thoughts in working with: Couples
· Use Emotionally Focused Therapy - see http://www.iceeft.com for further information
· Work towards partners feeling emotionally safe with each other so that they can be a shelter in life for each other – a safe place to land. Fights, anger, criticism, demands are mostly protests over emotional disconnection.
· Identify repetitive cycles in conflict and build awareness so can respond differently
· Change involves new experiences and relationship events
My thoughts in working with: Personal Development
· Identify areas of life wanting to develop
· Work towards dissolving barriers, set goals, and clarify actions to be taken
· Use Narrative Therapy – see http://www.dulwichcentre.com.au/common-questions-narrative-therapy.html
· Use the Sedona Method to facilitate releasing of feelings, thoughts, memories where appropriate
My thoughts in working with: Stress and Anxiety
· The treatment depends on the cause and the individual’s personality making generalizations difficult however treatment typically involves providing a client with strategies
My thoughts in working with: Grief
· Narrative approach to grief with a focus on ‘re-membering’ lives in contrast to forgetting those who have died. It is about the deliberate construction of stories that continue to include the dead in the membership of our lives – see http://www.rememberingpractices.com
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