If you've got to the stage of exploring therapy than there'll be a lot going on for you and some anxiety about meeting someone new and laying yourself open is natural. My first priority is to build an atmosphere of safe and  responsive rapport.

Good therapy allows more and more of your "whole self" to be seen and heard. This is a delicate process, as in our history we are often used to showing an "edited version" of who we are. Just reflecting together on how difficult and painful this has been can be a huge weight lifted.  The call to discover ourselves can happen at all kinds of stages in life: radical changes like marriage, the birth of children, any kinds of loss and bereavement or changes in our professional life. Similarly, as we grow older, we can start questioning what we always assumed about ourselves- common experiences of this can happen around mid to late 20s (quarter life) or in our late 30s and 40s (mid life).  You may be going through one of theses "crises" and you may be struggling to find solid ground. Therapy can be your invitation to slow down find a "place to stand", experience companioning in distress  and begin reflecting on what is happening. 

- You might want to move forward in life and connect to dreams, plans and creativity but keep noticing inner blocks to your self-realisation. Therapy is as much about your future growth and potential as it is about dwelling in the past.  In relational psychotherapy, we use the "aliveness of the present moment" to explore the "blocks" and also to experiment with new ways of being. 

I offer a professional, confidential, boundaried relationship where we work deeply together to hear, explore and develop your needs, feelings and hopes.  
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 Experience tells me that our "true selves" are larger, more creative and more resilient than we've been led to believe and that therapy is so much more than "fixing". It can be discovering and experimenting new ways of being in a safe place, or it can be the experience of being psychologically 'held' in painful states of mind and not being alone there.  Read more about the therapeutic space here
 
I'm informed by Relational Psychoanalysis, Jungian Depth Psychology, Intersubjective Therapy and Attachment Theory. I seek to hold these ideas lightly-  they are useful maps but the most important feature of our work will be the tangible  landscape of human lives, relationships and history- as well as holding those more intangible feelings and sensations that might hover beneath conscious awareness. 
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I'm registered with UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy), am fully insured and meet for regular supervision and CPD.