What I can offer: 

 

• A warm, caring, and empathic environment to express your feelings

• Unconditional respect and confidentiality for all people 

• Attentive listening to understand your issue and desired outcomes

• Value of your knowledge and perspective

• Support and understanding

• Positive strategies and opportunities to enable you to move forward in your life

• Appointment options, click here to find out what will work best for you.

The way I work: 

I specialise in narrative, solution-focused and collaborative therapy to help guide the change you would like in your life. Alongside the understanding of issues/problems, we will gain insight into the skills, resiliencies and capabilities you have, to assist you moving towards the life you want.  Goals that are in keeping with what you and your family value can be formed and we will work on how to see these goals realised.

Note: Solution Focused and Collaborative therapies are also counselling/ psychotherapy modalities that complement Narrative Therapy and I pull from these in my work with clients. As the name suggests, Solution Focused Therapy focuses on the end goal of what the client wants and how this may be achieved.

 

What is Narrative Therapy?

 

We all grow up believing certain stories about what makes us who we are. These stories are formed from personal experiences framed within cultural and societal expectations. Sometimes these stories we tell ourselves (or others believe of us) can contribute to us feeling stuck.

 

Narrative therapy can be used to work with any problem a client may have.  As each person is a unique individual with their own story, understandings, belief systems, and values, the conversation within the therapeutic space for each client is also very different. There is no set prescribed way of working but instead, a repertoire of knowledge on ways to look at the issue or problem and its effects guide the counsellor’s questions and way of relating. 

 

“Narrative therapy seeks to be a respectful, non-blaming approach to counselling and community work, which centres people as the experts in their own lives. It views problems as separate from people and assumes people have many skills, competencies, beliefs, values, commitments and abilities that will assist them to reduce the influence of problems in their lives.”

~ Alice Morgan, from her book 'What is Narrative Therapy?'

 

Resources

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• What is Narrative Therapy?

• Solution Focused Therapy

• Depression.org

• Article for after baby

• Postnatal depression

• Meals for mothers