HOW WE WORK
We offer short and longer term work. You decide with the therapist how often you want to come and for how many sessions. We often encourage gaps between appointments to allow time to process new ideas and change. So you might want to come weekly, fortnightly, three weekly or monthly.
Our style is conversational and we offer specific questions to help think through your concerns. We give you feedback about what you are telling us and sometimes we make suggestions for you to choose from. We try to use uncomplicated language.
In theoretical terms, our practice is based on systemic, social constructionist and narrative therapies. We focus on communication patterns. We are interested in what ideas you are drawing on and how these ideas or "stories" might be working for you or keeping things feeling stuck and frustrating. These narratives or ideas get created in our families, our relationships, our workplaces or in the street and can be very powerful in both helpful and unhelpful ways. They come to operate at a less mindful level and influence ideas about ourselves, about relationships or choice.
Therapy or counselling can create opportunities for identifying the unhelpful stories and behaviours. It can support and develop other descriptions of you, other choices for you which offer the dignity, the strength, the know-how which your circumstances may be needing.
What sorts of things can we help with?
We offer short and longer term work. You decide with the therapist how often you want to come and for how many sessions. We often encourage gaps between appointments to allow time to process new ideas and change. So you might want to come weekly, fortnightly, three weekly or monthly.
Our style is conversational and we offer specific questions to help think through your concerns. We give you feedback about what you are telling us and sometimes we make suggestions for you to choose from. We try to use uncomplicated language.
In theoretical terms, our practice is based on systemic, social constructionist and narrative therapies. We focus on communication patterns. We are interested in what ideas you are drawing on and how these ideas or "stories" might be working for you or keeping things feeling stuck and frustrating. These narratives or ideas get created in our families, our relationships, our workplaces or in the street and can be very powerful in both helpful and unhelpful ways. They come to operate at a less mindful level and influence ideas about ourselves, about relationships or choice.
Therapy or counselling can create opportunities for identifying the unhelpful stories and behaviours. It can support and develop other descriptions of you, other choices for you which offer the dignity, the strength, the know-how which your circumstances may be needing.