Welcome

If inner struggles such as anxiety, hurt, sadness, frustration, confusion, or loneliness are preventing you from listening to the needs of your heart and soul, it may be time to explore what is happening in your inner world.

Therapy provides a safe and confidential space to support the emotional healing and growth that will help you move forward on your life journey. I offer Counselling and Therapy for Individuals Suffering Emotional Pain

I provide a space where my clients can understand whatever it is that stops them from enjoying life; from connecting with others; a space where they can breathe, where they can experience being deeply heard.

Together we find a way to make sense of what happens in their inner world, to heal and to grow. My clients learn how to identify their pain, develop self-compassion and manage their emotional life with awareness.

Emotional pain takes many forms –anxiety, fear, sadness, grief, frustration, anger, confusion, emptiness, aloneness.

Emotions impact how we think. They influence the things we do or don’t do in life.

Emotions affect our health. Our physical body suffers. Our mind suffers.

Emotions change how we see things, how we react to what happens to us, the deep decisions we make about life.

Emotional pain controls all our relationships, including how we feel about ourselves, how we relate with others and with the world. Often our emotional world may not make sense. We don’t understand why we feel the things we feel. And we don’t know how to manage the pain and confusion of our feelings. It just hurts inside!

Knowing how to care for our emotional pain is a natural part of being emotionally healthy.

Sadly, we are often taught that only ‘positive’ feelings are ok and that having ‘negative’ emotions is unacceptable. We feel wrong or weak for having feelings that are not positive, and we try to ignore or hide them.

Sometimes the feelings and emotions seem to take us over:

• We might freeze up or start crying in situations where we feel it may not be appropriate, such as our work environment.

• We might snap, criticize, complain about or blame the people around us, especially those in our intimate circle;

• We may withdraw, stop communicating, isolate ourselves.

• We tell ourselves that our feelings don’t matter. And we often just pretend to be something we are not, we put on the happy mask.

Caring for our emotions begins with being authentic on an emotional level and turning toward our pain or hurt or anger with the same compassion and acceptance that we use when we turn toward a friend who may be in emotional distress.

When we are not able to be emotionally authentic, we feel out of touch with our soul or the spiritual side of ourselves. When we are emotionally authentic, we begin to awaken to our deepest Self.

As your therapist, I listen deeply.

• I create an emotionally safe place for you to express.

• I help you to make sense of, and care for your emotional pain.

• I help you begin to feel a sense of calm, of being more authentically ‘you’.

If you are looking for Clinical Supervision that provides support and can help you to develop an authentic style of work that is congruent with who you are as a practitioner, then I can help you.

Supervision gives you the time and space needed for reflection and exploration of your work with clients. It provides support to help you with the challenges of professional practice and to develop an authentic style of work that is congruent with who you are as a practitioner.

Are you interested in developing a strong supervisory alliance that is:

• respectful, supportive and non-judgmental

• collaborative and interactive

• affirming and empowering

• focused on your current need?

I believe in the importance of developing a supportive and empathic supervisory relationship that can enable discussion of all professional issues, including sensitive and confidential topics.  We work together to make meaning of the patterns and dynamics that govern and create problems in your client’s life and relationships.