Core modality & other approaches
Core Modality
I provide counselling and psychotherapy sessions informed, in the main, by the modality of Transactional Analysis (TA).
TA provides us with a useful way of understanding our communications, attachment styles, relationships with ourselves and with others, and for gaining awareness and autonomy around our internal conflicts and patterns.
The core philosophies of TA are that people are OK, everyone has the capacity to think, people decide their own destiny and these decisions can be changed (Eric Berne, 1966).
In essence this means that relationships in the therapeutic space are founded upon the philosophical assumption that people have value, worth and dignity, self-acceptance for who they are and acceptance for others in the here and now, that they can decide for themselves what they want from their lives, and that changes to those decisions are an appropriate element of growth and development.
Other Approaches
Other approaches, modalities and practices that inform my therapy sessions are:
Polyvagal Theory (vagus nerve)
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) tapping
Cruse Loss & Bereavement Awareness
Neurodivergent-informed practices
Family Constellation therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Developmental Psychology
Attachment Theory
Ecotherapy
Adlerian Counselling
Heart Field Coherence
Meditation
Mindfulness
Personal Values
Circadian rhythm (sleep)/Hormone/Gut health
Health Psychology