About You….
There are many reasons why people come to therapy. I wonder why you have landed here? You may have specific concerns, struggles or frustrations, you may want to re-evaluate where you are or where you’d rather be. You may simply yearn to be listened to AND 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.
Wired for connection, most difficulties brought to therapy, have arisen in relationship to the world, self and others. I provide caring liminal space where you can explore thresholds, evolving and transitioning within the safety of non-judgement and support, in a relationship set on a transformative journey. My training, passion and experience will provide a range of theoretical approaches, suggestions and tools, on which we may wish to draw. There is no one size fits all.
About Therapy
No two therapies are the same and yours will likely evolve over the time we work together according to your changing needs/preferences.
I work from the knowledge that what is held in memory and imagination (what might be called our own unique ‘world-map’) can, given the right conditions, be refined, improved or transformed.
The following stages of therapy aren’t prescriptive and are more cyclical and interwoven than linear, but they are frequently occurring aspects of deliberate change we might work together on:
Re-energising – fostering understanding and trust, creating safety, restoring self-esteem and efficacy, stabilising internal systems, and preparing for the new, formulating goals
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’ of yourself, becoming the change you have decided on
Re-orientating – integrating therapeutic change in everyday life, exploring future orientations and supportive settings, maintenance strategies, experimenting in the ‘real world’, exit planning/moving on
About 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. 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 elsewhere in life and in the everyday course of therapeutic change.
InReach Therapy works with the power of the conscious and subconscious focus.
We will discuss your unique needs and preferences at the start and at all stages of our work, as a vital, integral part of the therapy. You remain at all times fully in control.
We can utilise a range of psychotherapeutic approaches including: 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, Transactional Analysis (TA) and narrative approaches.
I work in a person-centred and integrative way, which means we build the therapy together, borrowing creatively as needed from wherever feels important and most natural to you, with or without hypnosis.
We will discuss your unique needs and preferences at the start and at all stages of our work, as a vital, integral part of the therapy. I do not do therapy of any kind ‘to you’, but rather I will work with you.
“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”
“Use hypnosis not as a cure, but a means to establishing a favourable climate in which to learn”
