An integrative counseller is trained to use a number of different counselling styles, based on the client's needs. At heart I am a person-centred counsellor, offering you the space to talk and be listened to empathically, using additonal trauma-informed training where appropriate.  I may include other humanistic styles of counselling such as Gestalt therapy, to tune into how your body is responding to threat and adversity, and Existential therapy to help you address the big questions, such as "Who am I?"

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At times I offer cognitive tools, where you are invited to consider how some of your thinking habits may be holding you back. This is particularly useful in short term therapy for anger or time management. Work with teens and children is often cognitive, and also creative; techniques such as drawing, game playing and clay work are helpful tools for children to express themselves. 

 

With couples, I mostly work psychodynamically, considering how early attachment styles are now present in current relationship, and use Emotionally Focussed Therapy techniques to help couples hear the emotions behind their words. 

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