1. PERSON-CENTRED (Carl Rogers Approach): 

With deep loving presence, I will support you to navigate your own inner landscape. The sessions will be led by you (and not me). However, I will be there to fully support you on your journey of discovery. This will be aided by the following:

Authenticity – My thoughts, feelings and behaviour are aligned. I demonstrate integrity and genuineness.

Acceptance – I am non-judgmental of my client’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours. I demonstrate a deep and real desire for my clients to progress and develop.

Empathy – I develop a deeper subjective understanding of my client that can only come with patience and careful listening – I try to understand my clients’ internal frame of reference.

2. SHADOW WORK (Jungian Approach)

I will help you to identify the parts of yourself that you keep hidden and sometimes reject. When we hide and reject parts of ourselves, they become expressed by our subconscious – sometimes in ways we cannot control. We will shine a light on these shadow aspects to illuminate them with compassionate awareness.

What was unconscious and in the shadows, will instead become conscious, welcomed, and accepted as an integral part of your self. 

3. ESSENCE WORK (Diamond Approach)

Utilising “inquiry”, an investigation of your own personal experience, to help you to come back to your own true nature – to penetrate through the personality structure. To use psychological understanding to help reveal the twists and turns of the ego structure. 

This will involve us both sensing, feeling deeply into the body, remembering past wounds, all with gentle compassion and understanding.  

4. TRAUMA WORK (Polyvagal Approach)

If we have unresolved trauma in our past, we may live in a version of perpetual fight-or-flight. For some trauma survivors, no activity successfully channels their fight-or-flight sensations. As a result, they feel trapped and their bodies shut down. These clients may live in a version of perpetual shutdown.

Polyvagal theory identifies a third type of nervous system response that Stephen Porges calls the social engagement system, a playful mixture of activation and calming that operates out of unique nerve influence.

The social engagement system helps to navigate relationships. Helping clients shift into using their social engagement system as opposed to the more traditional two-part antagonistic (sympathetic / parasympathetic) can allow them to become more flexible in their coping styles.