About Therapy
A crisis is often a call to personal growth and development, which our deeper nature wants us to work with, to find a new path through life
Short or long term counselling, psychotherapy and analysis for adults
I help you to find your own path through whatever is troubling you. This empathic approach taps the energy trapped deep within. This may benefit you directly through an increase in self-esteem and self-awareness. When this happens you feel more confident in every day life and issues that are afflicting you can be seen more clearly. They can be dealt with in relationship to your feelings rather than as an isolated problem. Individuals often ask how long this will take, and I say that it is a very individual path and much depends on what is going on in your life. This process is helpful for a wide range of issues such as depression, stress, deep anxiety, phobias and relationship problems which are symptomatic of events happening deep in the individual psyche. Individuals suffering from ME/Chronic fatigue syndrome and eating disorders often benefit from depth psychology.
Therapy in the Second Half of Life
The second half of life is important. Often there is a 'mid-life crisis', which is sometimes treated as a mental health problem, when in fact it could be a healthy, though sometimes difficult, transition to a new place within yourself. Working through this transition with Jungian analysis can turn out to be a creative and rewarding experience. It is often life-enhancing.
Working with dreams
Dreams are wonderfully practical and especially helpful if you have been 'stuck' in something for a long time, and can't seem to find a way through. People vary in how often they dream, but sometimes just a small fragment can be very revealing. They come out of the unconscious and say things about your situation which might otherwise never reach the light of day. Dreams can speed up your understanding and even reveal gifts that have remained hidden inside you. Speaking about them in the safe place of therapy can bring new realisations as they bring up deep feelings. Other creative processes such as painting, writing or movement, for example, are also useful. Not everyone's first language is the spoken word.
Bringing your Dreams ...
If you want to work solely with dreams then you can book a single or double session to discuss them, and the dreams are then your work in progress for your life and development. Many things come out of dream dialogues.