Patchouli Therapy – Counsellor/Psychotherapist
I am a private counsellor and psychotherapist practising and serving clients based in and around Marlow, England, offering online appointments only on a secure platform. If online therapy is for you, please read on.
As your therapist, I aim to create a therapeutic atmosphere that fosters growth, promotes positive change, and supports you in working towards your desired goals. I look forward to working with you to address your challenges and help you realise your potential for growth as a spiritual being.
Therapy is a stepping stone to help you learn and grow. It is an investment in your personal development on your journey to spiritual growth.
As a facilitator and a guide, I will help you develop self-awareness and self-realisation. Therapy allows you to intrapsychically explore, reflect, and evaluate the behaviours, feelings, and emotions that comprise your interpersonal structure.
It is a professional relationship with ethical boundaries, where I will hold the space for therapeutic intervention, allowing you to experiment, learn, re-enact, and be.
Therapy is a helping hand; sometimes, we all need a little help. When we share, we are expressing ourselves and our truth. Thus, we are able to see and understand what is within our control (our responsibilities) and what is beyond our control.
In a holistic setting, magical things can happen. When you speak to a non-judgmental, compassionate, and empathic person, you can experience freedom of expression, being seen and heard, being understood, and being valued, which is catharsis. Sharing with a caring person who accepts you entirely for who you are as a spiritual being is something everyone deserves to experience. If you want to experience therapy with me, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me.
Treatment Approach
Many successful treatment plans depend on the therapeutic relationship. I aim to ensure that we maintain a good working relationship and build a strong rapport.
Then I tapped into cognitive-somatic, cognitive-behavioural, developmental, emotionally-focused and transpersonal techniques to help you realise your potential for growth.
As a hypnotherapist and integrative-transpersonal therapist with a holistic approach, I will also draw upon techniques and strategies from person-centred counselling, rational-emotive therapy, relational psychotherapy, and psychosynthesis to help you change the things you want to change.
I do not necessarily explain the techniques or approaches, but they are fundamental to the sessions. I will share tools and resources to help you build inner resilience, endurance, tolerance and acceptance. I work intuitively with you, guided by my feelings during the session.
Our ‘inner’ world is more important than our ‘outer’ world. When we feel loved, safe and secure in the inner world, we will exude those qualities in the outer world as a way of being. When we have trust in our inner abilities and resources, we attract those same qualities.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to my therapeutic intervention. I aim to build connections with you on a relational, emotional, energetic, and spiritual level to help you find your spiritual path.
My approach to a therapy session is grounded in the existential relationship with you, the client, in the present moment and the here and now. I approach a therapeutic session with a holistic view of you as a uniquely whole person, not just your symptoms, conditions, diagnoses, labels, or roles, by exploring and healing the past, so that we can learn more about ourselves and our processes.
Moreover, a growing body of research supports the practice of self-compassion, including the development of self-love rituals and mindfulness in psychotherapy. Neuroscience research reveals that individuals who practice these techniques are happier, more resilient, and better equipped to heal painful memories from the past.
My honour and mission are to help you move past the past and what’s blocking you from reaching that full potential, individually and spiritually. I want to help you find who you are as a spiritual being.
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Training & Experiences
I began my training after experiencing difficulties in my relationships. After private personal therapy, I decided I would like to help others in the same way. Then, it became a therapeutic journey into self-development, spirituality and healing.
I began my training with Relate as a non-counsellor and then proceeded to further Psychotherapeutic Counselling and Hypnotherapy with Chrysalis Courses. From then, I expanded on my skills by studying other modalities, such as CBT/REBT, NLP, and eventually completed my master’s in Psychosynthesis Psychology.
Along the way, I continued training in alternative and holistic therapies, including EMDR, EFT, Inner Child Work, Reiki, energy healing, The Emotion Code and Body Code Energy healing.
I worked with the Samaritans, the Florence Nightingale Hospice, and TVPS and at No. 22 Youth Counselling before establishing a private practice and remote working.
Education & Credentials:
- Governing Bodies: Accredited NCPS and MBACP
- License State: Bucks
- Practising Since: 2013
- Education: MA Psychosynthesis Psychology; Prof. Adv. Dip. Psychotherapeutic Counselling; Dip Hypnotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy/Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy, EMDR Practitioner, Jungian Therapy, Inner Child Works, Emotional Freedom Technique, Subtle Body Anatomy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner, Reiki I/II, Certified Body Code and Emotion Code Practitioner.