What Happens?
Sessions last for one hour and usually take place weekly. I offer an initial consultation free of charge. This is an opportunity to talk about your needs, to ask questions, and to find out whether we will be comfortable working together.
We then begin to talk, and gently explore your experience. We look at the strategies and patterns that you have developed to survive in response to past difficulties or traumas, and how these prevent you from living life fully.
We work closely with an embodied awareness and understanding, a ‘felt sense’ of conditions that facilitates change. We help to develop your ability to be aware of choice in moments of distress, and to let go of what limits or restricts you. As energy and vitality are released, and you are troubled less by the past or the future, it becomes possible to live more fully in the present.
Psychotherapy can therefore be a support for the client on their particular journey. Crises can be seen not so much as problems, but as opportunities for growth.
Obviously this can take time, although change can occur quite rapidly, certainly at first, and specific problems can be addressed in this way through short-term work. This is available if desired. Six sessions would be a useful starting point.
More long-term, open-ended work allows the necessary time and space for lasting transformation to naturally take place, in the way we feel, think and act in our lives.
Above all perhaps, through good, long-term psychotherapy clients can learn to be their own ‘therapist’. In other words, you will find over time that your relationship to yourself changes for the better. You can bring more of yourself to each sphere of your life.
Crouch End, London N8
Kailash Centre
7 Newcourt St, St Johns Wood
London NW8 7AA