Therapy as a positive experience

I believe the therapeutic process, whether it involves Interpersonal Counselling or Integrative Psychotherapy, is meant to be a positive one.

Healing is a gift...

A positive therapeutic approach helps us gain an acceptance of our life challenges. We learn to see them not as burdens to bear weighing us down...but as avenues to inner growth, resilience of spirit, and ongoing personal and spiritual development. We feel grateful for the opportunity to look at ourselves.

New states of mind...

Each session creates a healing environment that allows you to get in touch with the emotional patterns and belief systems that are blocking your way to wellbeing. The aim is for you is to come out of each session feeling "lighter" and more in touch with yourself.

NOW is the only time...

The therapeutic focus is mostly on the present. There are occasions when childhood conditioning is explored but the main focus is on what is going on in your life right now. The therapy recognizes that happiness and self-fulfillment can only be found in the present, here and NOW. The present, enhanced with a vision for the future, is what fulfills us.

Integrative Psychotherapy can be experiential and transformational...

The psychotherapy that I practice is based on Jungian principles of spiritual psychology (the "science of the soul"). As an example, one aspect of Jungian psychology examines the Persona (the "mask" that we all wear and portray to others). The client learns to understand the ego self and can make choices to connect with a wiser, more spiritual level of their being. They may even discover that their priorities in life change and they gain a deeper understanding of why they are here.

Or the "shadow" self may be examined. Our understanding of these parts of ourselves can be a challenging process - but always an insightful one!

Jung's Individuation process allows for more awareness of our nature. It could be described as "coming into one's own self" or "coming to selfhood". This though is self-realization on the level of personality and individualism. Coming into the Real Self is another spiritual process altogether.

Clients who choose Integrative Psychotherapy discover that it can be one of the most rewarding of all psychotherapeutic processes.