My Approach

At the heart of Psychotherapy for Soul is the personal, professional, confidential, therapeutic relationship between us, client and therapist. My role is to provide a safe environment where you can explore your life experience, the issues troubling you, and your values and goals for a fulfilling future.

Psychotherapy for Soul is about:

Evolving as a human being.

Expanding our Soul, which means our lived experience of being who we are.

Hence, living a life ever more fruitful, more abundant, with more meaning, more fulfilled, and with more zest for life.
Psychotherapy for Soul: Healing Past Traumas

A diminishing of Soul begins in childhood:

Some of us suffer trauma through acts of physical or sexual violence against us or severe neglect, resulting in complex psychological needs.

Many of us suffer from the lack of loving care and regard that we need. As a result, we may feel untouched by love.

Even the best of those who care for us have lapses: Times of sadness, grief, pain, sickness, anger, or distraction. Just being human. With an infant’s finely tuned senses, each lapse is a wound to Soul. An infant for whom the only time is now.

The impact of such traumas, the wounding and diminishing of Soul, carries over into adulthood. Then, we may suffer anxiety, panic attacks, sadness, depression, addiction, low self-confidence or self-esteem or self-worth, troubled relationships, whatever diminishes our lived experience of being who we are.

Psychotherapy for Soul is about healing such childhood traumas and restoring Soul, to help us find the path towards a more vital, fruitful, abundant, meaningful, and fulfilled life.
Psychotherapy for Soul: Healing Relationships

Partners entering into a relationship bring with them the differing wounding and diminishing of Soul which they have suffered, a potential for misunderstanding, disappointment, and turmoil.

My role as a couple counsellor is to foster a dialogue between you around the issues that brought you into couple counselling. I foster this dialogue by posing questions and raising relevant topics for you to discuss with each other. In your dialogue, I encourage both of you to take ownership of whatever you express: your thoughts, your feelings, your wants, your needs; your experience of love, aggression, and bodily life.

Sharing feelings and needs serves to strengthen and deepen your relationship—as well as expanding your individual lived experience of being who you are— regardless of what as a couple you come to decide about the future. For more details, please, see my Couple Counselling page.
For psychotherapy, the painting depicts a dancer full of vitality
Dancer, © Anne Strange, 2015
Psychotherapy for Soul: Visioning the Future

Psychotherapy for Soul is equally about the realisation of our values and goals. There are times when we begin to feel there must be more in life than we are experiencing, more joy, love, fulfilment, the realisation of whom we truly are.

Psychotherapy for Soul can be exciting, enriching and transforming. A catalyst for profound change in our experience of being alive:

By growing as a person. Finding qualities in ourselves we didn’t know were there.

By discovering and realising our potentiality more and more.

By gaining insight into our unique purpose. The meaning of our life. The values which inform and inspire it.

Our life can be a journey of self-realisation and joy. Ever more vital, fruitful, abundant, meaningful, and fulfilled.

About Me

Psychotherapy for Soul : Healing past traumas. Visioning the future.
At the heart of psychotherapy is the relationship between client and therapist. A personal, professional, confidential, therapy relationship. My role is to provide a safe environment. In which you can explore your life experience: the issues which trouble you; whatever is emerging in your life. During regular individual 50-minute sessions, we work together on whatever issues and opportunities you choose to explore.
I have practiced as a qualified counsellor and psychotherapist for 20 years. I trained at The Institute of Psychosynthesis, London. During the last eight years, I have studied the ancient healing practice of Shamanism. I trained at Eagle’s Wing College of Contemporary Shamanism.
In my published book ‘Soulfulness : The Marriage of Shamanic and Contemporary Psychology’, I describe how a present-day form of Shamanism can be integrated into a mainstream psychotherapy practice like mine. From this work, I have developed Psychotherapy for Soul, bringing in a wealth of Shamanic thought and practice. Please, visit my website for details.

I work with

• Couples
• Individuals

Types of Therapies Offered

• Psychosynthesis Psychotherapist

What I can help with

• Abuse
• Addiction
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Depression
• Employment Difficulties
• Identity Problems
• Obsessions