Self-Development
No matter what kind of issue you may want to focus on, all therapy begins with awareness. If you have an idea of how an issue is affecting you or if you are aware of the area in your life you want to change, therapy can help unlock what’s going on. It can heighten your understanding and awareness about the impact it is having on your life. This is the first step in your self-development journey.
TA for Self-Development
My primary modality is Transactional Analysis. As as an integrative and systemic approach in psychotherapy, TA is a fantastic model to use to help us understand our own structure of personality. It offers a way for us to understand our own capacity for personal growth and change. TA can help us understand more about how we are structured psychologically. To do this it makes use of accessible and easy to follow models, such as the ego-state model. This particular model – the diagram on the right – is used to aid understanding of how people function and how we express our personality in terms of behaviour. Where useful and appropriate, I may use the ego-state model in sessions.
As TA is an effective way of understanding people it is often used in educational and organisational settings. It is used to help make sense of people and interpersonal communication. In such cases consultants will be called in to establish and improve on effective communication in the workplace. It is an incredible accessible, usable and user-friendly tool for self-development.
For You
Psychotherapy for self-development can help you to be the person you want to be. It can help you through stuck periods in your life, help you reach your full potential and enable you to have more fulfilling and enriching relationships.

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Frequently Asked Questions
The terms ‘Psychotherapy’ and ‘Counselling’ are often used interchangeably and essentially they are both characterised by a form of “talking therapy”. You will see many practitioners will use both terms when referring to themselves.
Fundamentally both psychotherapy and counselling have the same goal of providing relief to someone with some sort of psychological symptom or obstacles although there are some subtle differences.
‘Counselling’ is often used to describe a shorter-term process than psychotherapy. A goal in counselling is to enable someone to make better use of resources they may already have in place. Counselling often focuses on a specific issue, life event or experience or on a particular symptom.
‘Psychotherapy’ is often a longer process of treatment and focuses on facilitating the exploration and development of new resources for a person. In psychotherapy you will have the chance to look deeper into the root of your issues. You will have the chance to explore patterns of behaviour, thinking and feeling in your life at a greater depth that allow you to focus more on your way of being in the world.
Psychotherapy training is also a more rigorous and academic process.
Someone who may be in training to be a Psychotherapist may refer to themselves as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor until they have completed certification to be known as a Psychotherapist.
I hope that my website has given you an overview of who I am and how I work and if you are interested in finding out more I would recommend an initial consultation to meet each other to see if it feels right for you when we are in the room together. We will probably be able to establish quite early on if I am the right person for you.
Choosing a therapist is a very individual choice and I recommend you take the time to meet at least a couple people with a view to having some thought about who you may work best with. I believe that each relationship is individual and unique and it is a privilege for me to get to know people I see and to support them on their therapeutic journey. Relationship is central to building a therapeutic alliance and working together, so trust your instinct to make a decision and start your own journey.
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Following our initial assessment, if you would like to start sessions together we will agree a day and time for your sessions. I will send you a standard therapy agreement that outlines my commitment to you and it details much of what I would have discussed in the assessment session. This includes details of my professional commitments and of the administrative aspects of our therapeutic relationship. We will both have a signed copy of this agreement.
Payment is due each session and I accept cash or BACS transfers. Any missed sessions with less than 48 hours notice will be payable on the following session.
If you want to work longer term I am also happy to work on monthly payments.
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