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About Me

My Practice

Hi, I’m Edward, I’m a counsellor and I’ve trained in range of therapies including the main schools of psychotherapy. These different therapies are integrated into my practice and I bring the parts that I think will be most useful in responding to the specific needs of each unique client. My experience includes private practice, charity sector work and NHS referrals. I am a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

My Philosophy

In my counselling space, clients are encouraged and facilitated to tell their story at their own pace. To slow down, breathe, observe yourself and notice things.

Our thought patterns, and ways of being, become so familiar to us that we don’t even notice them anymore. Using breathwork and mindfulness we can slow down and observe our ‘automatic’ thoughts. Experiencing yourself in this way is called self-awareness and opens up a path to greater self-understanding, and self-compassion.

Through regularly practising opening up our awareness, we can stay ‘present’ and get to know ourselves better. This develops our abilities to make well-informed decisions in our lives, to have healthy boundaries and to communicate less reactively in our relationships.

You can expect me to:

  • Support you in putting feelings and therapeutic goals into words
  • Listen attentively and show an empathic understanding
  • Reflect back to you and use questions to prompt further exploration
  • Provide a reliable and responsive safe base with whom to develop a trusting and facilitative relationship

If appropriate, you may be offered new practices (such as journalling, breathwork or mindfulness exercises) or reading suggestions that facilitate the therapeutic process between sessions.

Counselling Relationship

We humans are social creatures, wired for connection by nature. Relationships are both at the core of life and at the core of our suffering.

Counselling work is a joint effort by both client and counsellor. Carl Rogers teaches that effective counselling is built on a feeling of trust and safety.

I aim to provide an emotionally warm and safe space that lays the groundwork for self-understanding, unlearning and personal growth to emerge from within a collaborative partnership.

With unconditional acceptance and emotional availability, I gently invite you to find the fortitude to identify and challenge, little by little, your conscious and unconscious cognitive and emotional material.

Please also hold in mind, that this togetherness will be only a provisional experience, as your journey with me is one that must lead to a place of autonomy.