Therapy at InReach
There are many reasons why people come to therapy. You may have specific concerns, struggles or goals, you may want to re-evaluate where you are or where you’d rather be. You may simply feel a need to be heard. We humans are complex beings, as unique as fingerprints and my approach places you as an individual, in whatever situation you find yourself, at the centre of all we do together.
We are wired for connection and most difficulties brought to therapy, have arisen in the context of relationship to the world, self and others. I provide a space where you can explore and evolve within the safety of a non-judgemental, supportive relationship set towards a transformative journey. My training and experience provide a wide range of approaches and tools, on which we may wish to draw. There is no one size fits all.
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What happens in therapy?
No two therapies are the same and yours will likely evolve over the time we work together according to your emerging needs/preferences.
I work from the basic assumption that what is held in memory and imagination (what might be called our own unique ‘world-map’) can, given the right environment, be refined, improved or transformed.
The following stages of therapy aren’t prescriptive or linear as maybe suggested here, but they are frequently occurring cyclical aspects of change we might work on:
Re-energising – fostering understanding and trust, creating safety, restoring self-esteem and efficacy, stabilising internal systems, and preparing for the new
Re-processing - the roots, beginnings, encounters, decisions and pathways taken that got you here
re-imagining – exploring new possibilities, new narratives, creative reconstructions, befriending and mediating troubled or abandoned ‘parts’, becoming the change
Re-orientating – integrating therapeutic change within and in everyday life, exploring future orientations, setting goals, experimenting in the ‘real world’, exit planning/moving on
Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy
Have you ever been in an intense focussed dialogue with someone, to the point where you maybe forgot about time, where the only thing that existed was that focussed attention? You may have experienced a similar state when watching a film or reading a book, or absorbed in a particular task, sport or form of relaxation. There is too, that place between sleeping and wakefulness, a comfortable easy place, where your perception seems to glide naturally, connecting inner and outer worlds. These easy, everyday states inevitably arise, even when not acknowledged or named.
At InReach therapy we recognise and name those more resourceful ‘in-touch’ states; in a transparent way, utilising them with you to foster new connections and support desired changes.
These states can be light or deep, they can be induced formally or naturally arise as they do elsewhere in life and in the everyday course of therapeutic change.
It seems to me talking therapy is innately working in tandem with conscious and sub-conscious ‘trance-like’ states. Hypnotherapy is simply one highly accessible vehicle, to deliver psychotherapy.
We will discuss your individual needs and preferences in depth at the start and at all stages of our work, as a vital, integral part of the therapy. Like all tools and lenses, you have the choice. The important thing to know now, is that in the same way you can already bring yourself into and out of these ‘in-touch’ states, in hypnotherapy you will never be under anyone else’s spell! You remain at all times fully in control.
“When I am at my best... closest to my inner intuitive self...somehow in touch with the unknown in me, when perhaps I am in a slightly altered state of consciousness in the relationship, whatever I seem to do seems full of healing”
“You use hypnosis not as a cure, but a means to establishing a favourable climate in which to learn”
I have had CPD/training and experience in a range of psychotherapeutic approaches/methodologies, including: Hypnosis; Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT); Motivational Interviewing (MI); Working with parts, e.g., Internal Family Systems (IFS); Gestalt; Somatic (mind/body) therapy; trauma therapy including Eye Movement Reprocessing, Inner Child work and Transactional Analysis (TA)
I work primarily from a Person-Centred lens, which means we build the therapy together, borrowing creatively as needed from wherever feels important and most natural to you.
