Person-centred counselling, sometimes called Rogerian counselling, is recognised internationally as an effective form of counselling. It gives you the opportunity to be truly heard in a respectful way, whatever your values and needs may be. As a person-centred counsellor, I aim to meet you with warm acceptance and respond to you in a genuine way. I will help you to find within yourself a way to be what you want to be.

This is different from giving advice, offering solutions or explanations to your problems. At all times you decide what is right for you and I use my skills to support you.

You can talk but you don't have to

Counselling is often described as a "talking treatment". However, whatever your age, if talking isn't your favourite way of expressing yourself, we can use other media. Those can include: drawing, painting, clay work, movement, sandplay, visualisations, story writing, images, or whatever you may want to bring or suggest.

At all times I am committed to developing a deeply therapeutic alliance with each of my clients.

Counselling or psychotherapy?

The difference between counselling and psychotherapy is unclear and there is some variation between practitioners in the way that they define the two practices. Common distinctions are that, on the one hand, counselling focusses on specific issues and so is usually shorter-term. On the other hand, psychotherapy looks at deeper-seated issues which may affect you in various areas of your life and usually stem from childhood experiences, often making their resolution longer-term.

Personally I make no distinction between the two as I use the same skills and follow the same approach with you whatever your aims may be. In our first meeting we can discuss how many sessions you want to start with and review this at regular intervals.