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About Me

My Practice

Hi, I’m Edward, I’m a counsellor trained in range of therapies including the main schools of psychotherapy. For each client I bring an approach that I think will be most useful in responding to your particular needs and goals. My experience includes private practice and NHS referrals in the charity sector. I am a member of the BACP.

My Philosophy

In my counselling space you will be encouraged and facilitated to tell your story at your own pace. I will help you to make sense of your experiences and your reactions. Sometimes slowing down a little and taking an extra breath or two is all you need to do to unlock a new understanding of what’s going on for you.

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

By practising a ‘noticing’ state of mind we can open up our awareness, stay ‘present’ and get to know ourselves better. This develops our abilities to know what we really want, to make well-informed decisions in life, to have healthy boundaries and to communicate less reactively in relationships.

You can expect me to:

  • Support you in putting feelings and therapeutic goals into words
  • Listen attentively and show 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 at the core of our being, and at the core of our suffering.

Counselling work is a joint effort by both client and counsellor. Carl Rogers’ teachings have shown us that effective counselling is built on a foundation of feelings of trust and safety.

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

I gently invite you to find the will to step outside your comfort zone and face your challenges. With unconditional acceptance and emotional availability, I will help you, little by little, to identify and integrate your conscious and unconscious, cognitive and emotional material.

We also note from the start that my part in your journey, whether long or short, is temporary, as our sessions lead you to a place of greater agency, autonomy and empowerment.