Psychotherapy, Counselling and Supervision

Little Venice, London W2 : Rochester, Kent

Welcome to my website. Sometimes it feels impossible to impose our problems on our friends and family, and it is at these times that we could do with support from someone impartial. I am, therefore, offering you confidential and non-judgemental face-to-face psychotherapy and counselling, both long and short term, to help you live a more fulfilling and happier life.

My philosophy of counselling and psychotherapy is that we can all go through times when life gets us down and we can’t see a way out of our problems; we can suffer from a lack of connection with others and our true selves, and a lack of joy. I believe that we are born with this sense of joy and losing contact with it can plunge us into depression, anxiety states, addictions, and so on. These states all indicate our yearning for a better life, a yearning to return to our original state of joy, at our core. We can re-discover it through greater awareness and, once we have re-connected with our essence, we cannot lose it again.

I believe that emotional problems and crises are opportunities for learning and growth. Thus, with the greater self-awareness that can be gained through therapy, we can learn how to be more creative in managing our problems, increase our personal well-being, and release the ties of the past and reduce anxieties about the future - as someone said: the past is history, the future is a mystery and the present is a gift. Through practising loving kindness towards ourselves we can find ways of self-soothing rather than self-medicating, and become more alive to the present, and live in a more positive and creative way.

I also offer Supervision to other counsellors/psychotherapists, as well as help with essay writing for students of counselling/psychotherapy, from getting started to editing and proof-reading; and I run one-day workshops on creative writing therapy in Rochester, Kent and at Little Venice in central London - please go to my page on Inner World Writing for more information.