Psychospiritual counselling
Being a human is hard. And, at times, it can feel as though we are being crushed under the weight of the world.
Stress. Loss. Loneliness. Anxiety. Shame. Fear. Regret. We all have our demons – big ones, small ones, old ones, quiet ones, ones that have been with us since childhood, ones that we’ve stuffed into the crevices of our mind in the hope that, if we ignore them for long enough, they will go away. But they don’t. They haunt us. They hold us back from realising our full potential. They alienate us from our body, our emotions, our purpose, our relationships. And we are left feeling lost, empty, stuck, hollowed out – without really knowing what’s wrong.
Psychospiritual counselling offers you the space to meet your demons. To tame them. To learn from them. To shine light into your dark places and see there is beauty there too. It provides an island of relief in the chaos of daily life to explore your hurt, your grief, and your fears so that you can transform your pain into a gentle, loving force that allows you to live more fully, love more deeply, and feel more alive.
Psychospiritual counselling is client-led and trauma-sensitive. Instead of asking 'What's wrong with you?', it asks: 'What's happened to you?', 'How has it affected you?', 'What did you have to do to survive?'.
Most of us come to therapy feeling trapped – imprisoned by our thoughts, behaviours, addictions, marriages, jobs, fears, past. Psychospiritual counselling is a place where you can begin to free yourself. It is an introspective, insight-orientated therapy that looks at who you are behind your struggles. It is a space where you can ask yourself the brave questions: What am I afraid of? How am I betraying myself? Am I living the life I truly want to live? It gives you an opportunity to let go of the limiting stories you’ve been telling yourself. To get to know who you are beneath the masks you wear. And, if you need to, to completely fall apart and rebuild yourself from the rubble.
Psychospiritual counselling offers a compassionate place to explore emotional distress without pathologising it as a symptom of a mental illness. Instead, it draws on more holistic understandings, rooted in feminist psychology, Polyvagal Theory, the Power Threat Meaning Framework, Buddhist-informed frameworks and the Biopsychosocial-spiritual model of mental health.
I believe the most powerful healing tool is the therapeutic relationship, in creating a space where you feel safe and seen. As well as this relationship, during psychospiritual counselling, we may draw on many different tools and techniques depending on what you need. Some of these may involve working with the nervous system, others may explore how experiences in the past are affecting you in the present, and sometime we may use energetic and meditative techniques to explore spiritual issues such as meaning, consciousness and finding your calling.
Psychospiritual counselling can be helpful for the following:
Techniques offered in sessions include:
If you are experiencing eating and body image distress, we can also combine psychospiritual counselling with nutrition and intuitive eating counselling.
When we create the space and put in the time, we stumble upon our own healing. This is the gift of psychospiritual counselling. It gives us a space to get out own way, realise our potential, and reconnect with who we are, why we are here and what is sacred.
Psychospiritual counselling offers you the space to meet your demons. To tame them. To learn from them. To shine light into your dark places and see there is beauty there too. It provides an island of relief in the chaos of daily life to explore your hurt, your grief, and your fears so that you can transform your pain into a gentle, loving force that allows you to live more fully, love more deeply, and feel more alive.
Psychospiritual counselling is client-led and trauma-sensitive. Instead of asking 'What's wrong with you?', it asks: 'What's happened to you?', 'How has it affected you?', 'What did you have to do to survive?'.
Most of us come to therapy feeling trapped – imprisoned by our thoughts, behaviours, addictions, marriages, jobs, fears, past. Psychospiritual counselling is a place where you can begin to free yourself. It is an introspective, insight-orientated therapy that looks at who you are behind your struggles. It is a space where you can ask yourself the brave questions: What am I afraid of? How am I betraying myself? Am I living the life I truly want to live? It gives you an opportunity to let go of the limiting stories you’ve been telling yourself. To get to know who you are beneath the masks you wear. And, if you need to, to completely fall apart and rebuild yourself from the rubble.
Psychospiritual counselling offers a compassionate place to explore emotional distress without pathologising it as a symptom of a mental illness. Instead, it draws on more holistic understandings, rooted in feminist psychology, Polyvagal Theory, the Power Threat Meaning Framework, Buddhist-informed frameworks and the Biopsychosocial-spiritual model of mental health.
I believe the most powerful healing tool is the therapeutic relationship, in creating a space where you feel safe and seen. As well as this relationship, during psychospiritual counselling, we may draw on many different tools and techniques depending on what you need. Some of these may involve working with the nervous system, others may explore how experiences in the past are affecting you in the present, and sometime we may use energetic and meditative techniques to explore spiritual issues such as meaning, consciousness and finding your calling.
Psychospiritual counselling can be helpful for the following:
- Easing stress and anxiety
- Eating and body image distress
- Burnout
- Perfectionism and people-pleasing
- Personal and professional growth
- Relationship issues
- Spiritual crisis
- Grief and existential distress
Techniques offered in sessions include:
- Talk therapy
- Inner child work
- Shadow work
- Polyvagal practices
- Journalling
- Art therapy
- Chakra therapy
- Energy clearing
- Ancestral healing
- Cord cutting
- Soul retrieval
- Dream work
- Body scans
- Art therapy
- Visualisations
- Guided meditations
- Breathwork
- Ho'oponono
If you are experiencing eating and body image distress, we can also combine psychospiritual counselling with nutrition and intuitive eating counselling.
When we create the space and put in the time, we stumble upon our own healing. This is the gift of psychospiritual counselling. It gives us a space to get out own way, realise our potential, and reconnect with who we are, why we are here and what is sacred.