Developing the Capacity to Turn Towards What's Painful
Psychotherapy can help you with:
- Self-esteem
- Anxiety / Fear
- Anger
- Shame
- Self-Abandonment
- Deep Sadness
- Grief
- Transitions
- Identity.
I offer a safe space to sit with difficulty, so that you can process your feelings, and move through what is painful.
I work from a modality that combines eastern Buddhist wisdom with western psychology to help you become more reflective, so that you can bring increasing awareness to your experiences. This modality also integrates neuro-scientific approaches to trauma so that we can notice our activation levels, and develop greater capacity to put emotional brakes on, or challenge ourselves to work effectively with our window of tolerance.
I ask you to work with kindness and compassion towards your defence mechanisms, protectors, and inner parts, such as the internal critic or persecutor, inner child, and inner saboteur. In bearing witness to our inner parts, we can breathe, and find increasing capacity to respond to our difficulties with wisdom.
When we can offer ourselves loving-kindness and compassion, and can accept the way things are without becoming too activated, we can feel more inner peace and spaciousness. This can help us to feel more resourced in the way we respond to our painful inner experiences.
