Family and couple psychotherapy in Sturminster Newton

Many of us get so used to our repetitive routines that we often forget about living our lives and doing the things we love. I believe in inspiring you to step out of your comfort zone and commit time to activities you enjoy. The best gift you can give yourself is to reconnect to your inner power and start enjoying your life.

If you choose me as your psychotherapist, I ensure to devote my professional skills and experience to help you find the relief you seek in a compassionate, non-critical, and non-judgmental setting.

It is easy to get stuck in patterns of conflict and miscommunication in your relationship. Such situations can be damaging to the relationship and hurtful for all those involved. 

As a professional psychotherapist, I design my couples therapy with a focus on promoting change, forgiveness, reconciliation and positive communication.

 I will be glad to speak with you and your partner today to help you get on the road to a more peaceful and satisfying relationship.

Our families influence almost every aspect of our lives, from our first moments to our last. It’s quite painful and upsetting when the relationships with those most precious to us, are in a bad place. 

As a seasoned family therapist, I will work with the family to identify strengths while helping to improve communication, decrease conflict, and improve overall functioning.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a type of psychotherapy that helps you accept the difficulties that come with life. It is a form of mindfulness based therapy, theorising that greater well-being can be attained by overcoming negative thoughts and feelings. ACT looks at your character, traits, and behaviours to assist you in reducing avoidant coping styles. ACT also addresses your commitment to making changes, and what to do about it when you can't stick to your goals.

Attachment-based therapy is a form of therapy that applies to interventions or approaches based on attachment theory, which explains how the relationship a parent has with their child influences development.

Cognitive-behavioural therapy focuses on the role of thinking in how we feel and what we do. It is based on the belief that thoughts, rather than people or events, cause negative feelings. I can assist you in identifying, testing the reality of, and correcting dysfunctional beliefs underlying your thinking. CBT is a structured collaboration and often calls for homework assignments. CBT has been clinically proven to help clients in a relatively short amount of time with a wide range of mental health issues.

It may look like a craft class, but creative therapy is a technique that uses the creative process to help improve the mental health of clients. It can be used with children and adults to help with a wide range of emotional issues cause by several problems including family and relationships, trauma, and loss.

Creative therapy programmes are based on the belief that the creative process is healing and life-enhancing.

As you paint or draw, I can use your work of art and approach to the process as springboards will help you gain insight, improve your judgment, cope with stress, and work through traumatic experiences.

I work with families or couples both together and individually to help them improve their communication skills, build on the positive aspects of their relationships, and repair the negative aspects.

Cognitive therapy, or MBCT, is a two-part therapy that aims to reduce stress, manage pain, and embrace the freedom to respond to situations by choice. MCBT blends two disciplines-cognitive therapy and mindfulness. Mindfulness helps by reflecting on moments and thoughts without passing judgment.

I will help you pay close attention to your feelings and reach an objective mindset, thus combating life's unpleasant occurrences.

Person-centred therapy uses a non-authoritative approach that allows clients to take more of a lead in discussions. In this process, you will discover your own solutions. I will act as a compassionate facilitator and will listen to you without judgment. I will guide you in the therapeutic process without interrupting or interfering in the process of your self-discovery.