BACP Accredited Counsellor
UKCP Accredited Psychotherapist
In-Person (Cardiff) • Outdoor • Online
"The Silent Watcher is a symbol of the way of seeing that is meditative aware- ness. This awareness observes the uninterrupted stream of thoughts, images, feelings, and sensations, which arise and return from whence they came, moment by moment." - Rishi Sativihari
I offer a contemplative psychotherapy that helps you to turn towards your emotional pain, in order to move through difficulty. I suggest that if you are able to be both in your experience and also able to witness or observe your experience, you are better able to work consciously through your difficulties. This can often feel like a relief, as your inner world is witnessed both by a therapist and also through your own witnessing of mind.
I am trained both as a humanistic existentialist counsellor and a mindfulness based psychotherapist, which combines Buddhist ways of approaching the mind with western psychodynamic understandings. I see Buddhist techniques as compassionate based tools that can be integrated into your own values, ethics, spiritual or belief systems as they are.
How Do I Work?
I trust in holistic health, or innate health, and that when we process our emotional wounds, or work through our difficulties, they have a tendency to resolve themselves. An image I like is that of emotionally charged material being at the forefront of our minds and as we bring awareness to it, over time, it starts to recede to the background. By turning towards our processes, and allowing them to be seen, felt, understood and met, we consciously participate in metabolising or working through those less conscious territories, until we gain clarity and cohesion.
“Put one chair in the centre.”
- Ajahn Chah
I work in the following territories:
- Fear and Anxiety
- Shame and Self Worth
- Disassociation, Numbness and Resistance
- Deep Sadness
- Moving from Reactivity to Responsiveness
- Frustration and Anger
- Grief and Loss
- Traumas
- Childhood Patterns, Defence Mechanisms and Protective Strategies
- Inner Critic, Inner Sabateur, Inner Child work
- Sexuality
- Life transitions and Life Stages
- Inner Shadow Work and True Self Connection
- Psycho-Spiritual Emergence
- Resourcing and Developing a Contemplative Practice.
LGBTQ+ / Queer Inclusive
I welcome clients across the LGBTQ+ and queer communities, and I am comfortable exploring questions of sexuality, identity, belonging, relationships and authenticity openly in our work.
You don’t need to arrive with a particular identity or agenda. We can work with whatever is important to you.
The more-than-human world
I am currently training in Wild Therapy and increasingly interested in the relationship between our inner lives and the living world around us.
This is developing alongside my existing psychotherapy practice and is part of a growing interest in our relationship with the wider living world.
How I work
Sessions are 60 minutes and usually take place weekly.
I offer face-to-face psychotherapy in Cardiff, as well as online sessions.
Fee: £70 per session.
If something here resonates with you, you’re welcome to get in touch. We can arrange an initial conversation and see whether working together feels like a good fit.
