What can I expect from
Soul-Centred Counselling?

Deep Acceptance

We are often our own harshest critic, and it can take real courage to meet with someone new, and begin to share things that we may never have spoken about to anyone before. However we feel, or don’t feel, about ourselves and our lives, knowing that all of us is welcome, just as we are, can help to ease us into the conversation.

As we begin to release these hidden burdens we also invite a warmer, more appreciative experience of ourselves, and learn the gentle steps towards the life we long for.

A Genuine Relationship

For many of us, what we most yearn for are genuine relationships, that have honesty, integrity and gentle humour woven into their fabric. Knowing that we matter, that our concerns are valid, and that we have someone who we can trust on our side can make all the difference.

That’s not to say that any relationship is ever perfect. Sometimes being able to talk through difficulties that arise in the counselling relationship, and have them heard with openness and understanding, may be the very healing that we need.

Gentle Embodiment

Many of us spend a lot of time in our head, and for good reason. Trauma ruptures our innate relationship with our body, and we may retreat into our thoughts to protect ourselves from further pain. Although our mind may feel safe, we lose a fuller sense of ourselves and our lives in the process.

Learning to find and cultivate places of safety, comfort and ease in our bodies can be the first step towards wholeness. Using meditation, movement and gentle enquiry, we can learn to inhabit ourselves, and our lives, in ways we never thought possible.

Imaginative Perspectives

Sometimes the stories we tell ourselves no longer serve, and we need kinder ways of relating to our secret, internal struggles. The imagination offers us such points of view, imbued with compassion and understanding.

Writing, drawing and dialoging can help us to respond creativity to these hidden aspects of ourselves. Image, metaphor and dream can help us to find more robust, resilient and authentic ways of being. By letting go of who we thought we were and embracing who we can imagine ourselves to be we offer ourselves the potential for real change in our lives.

A World of Meaning

We live in an increasingly complex, polarised and conflict-ridden world, which simple slogans are unable to satisfy. Our experience of this shared suffering can leave us feeling an overwhelming mix of emotions.

Finding a place of meaning within ourselves and our lives can help us to be with these experiences, and make sense of the senselessness. As we do, we can discover our own unique, creative response to our lives and our world.