Seven areas of the practice.
Each chapter describes how the work shows up in the room. Most clients work in two or three of these at once; the chapters are not rigid lanes.
Grief work and bereavement counseling
Loss has its own rhythm. We sit with what is there and we do not push past it. Gestalt-informed, with creative tools where they serve the work.
- + Sudden and anticipated loss
- + Anniversary and memory work
- + Complicated grief
- + Pet loss
- + Loss of identity, role, or function
- + Building meaning after
Depression and anxiety support
Most clients arrive with both, often tangled together. We work on what is keeping them in the room and what is making them louder right now.
- + Persistent low mood
- + Generalised and social anxiety
- + Panic and avoidance
- + Rumination and intrusive thinking
- + Sleep and energy patterns
- + Practical coping that holds
Trauma and post-traumatic growth
Trauma is processed at the pace of the nervous system. We use phase-based work, focusing on stabilisation first, then careful processing, then integration. Post-traumatic growth is the long view we hold together.
- + Single-event trauma
- + Developmental trauma
- + Recent traumatic experiences
- + Stabilisation and nervous-system regulation
- + Re-entry into daily life
- + The slow work of growth after
Conflict navigation and mediation
Drawing on an MA in Conflict Resolution and Mediation, this work supports clients caught in interpersonal or family conflict. We work on how the conflict is happening, not just what it is about.
- + Family-of-origin conflict
- + Workplace tension
- + Partner communication patterns
- + Co-parenting dynamics
- + Sibling and adult-sibling work
- + Repair after rupture
Boundary setting and self-worth
Many clients arrive with a thin sense of where they end and others begin. This work is practical, structured, and ongoing, with the boundaries themselves often being the easier part once the inner work has begun.
- + Identifying values and limits
- + Naming what is and is not okay
- + Holding boundaries under pressure
- + Self-worth that does not depend on others' reactions
- + Boundaries with family of origin
- + Boundaries at work
Anger management and coping strategies
Anger almost always has a smaller, harder emotion underneath. We work on slowing the response, naming what is actually present, and building tools that work in real life, not just in the office.
- + Recognising the early signs
- + Cooling-down protocols
- + Identifying the emotion underneath
- + Repair after an outburst
- + Long-term lifestyle adjustments
- + Family-of-origin patterns around anger
Teenager and young-adult work
Drawing on Child and Youth Worker training plus a Master's in mediation, this stream of the practice serves teenagers and young adults specifically. Often parents are part of the intake; the room is for the young person.
- + School and academic strain
- + Friendship and identity
- + Family-system tensions
- + Coming out and identity exploration
- + Stress, low mood, and self-worth
- + Coping skills for early adulthood
Gestalt and creative tools.
The practice is grounded in gestalt therapy, which keeps the work in the present and in the body. Creative-expression tools (drawing, writing, movement, dialogue work) join the conversation when they serve the client's process.
The approach is holistic in the literal sense: thoughts, feelings, body sensations, and context all show up together in the room.
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