St Albans Counselling Psychology

I can provide you with a safe and creative space where we can identify and work on what is worrying or disturbing you, so as to help you to develop the emotional resilience and inner resources to bring about change in your life. As a chartered counselling psychologist, I have received a five year post-graduate integrative training which has involved learning about many different schools of counselling and psychotherapy (including existential therapy, psychoanalytic approaches, cognitive behavioural therapy [CBT] and humanistic models). I work primarily in a phenomenological way, which means that I focus in detail on your words and concerns - so that together we can better understand and reflect on your concerns. I avoid the use of jargon. Although as a psychologist I am aware of different methods of diagnosis, I do not impose psychological theories on you or offer a 'diagnosis' in a medical sense - because I do not believe the human condition can be 'fixed' or 'cured' in the ways that we might sometimes wish. My aim is to help you to find new ways of being and responding, so that you can begin to address your difficulties for yourself.