My Approach

Psychosynthesis is a Psycho-spiritual therapy, founded in the early 1900s by the Psychoanalyst Roberto Assagioli, a student of Sigmund Freud. Assagioli was more aligned with Carl Gustav Jung and drew inspiration from Eastern and Western mysticism, looking at the individual’s growth to realise our full potential.

Psychosynthesis integrates numerous techniques depending on the client's need and the focus of the work. Assagioli was an early adopter in that he practised yoga, so body/somatic work plays an essential part. The sessions are a mix of talking therapy and use imagination and the body as resources, through guided visualization/meditation, awareness of body sensations, and drawing with crayons. Exploring imagination, dreams and the body opens up new ways of thinking and being. I help clients to know their nervous system’s experiences of “fight, flight, freeze” and how to resource and calm themselves. The presenting issues are explored “bi-focally” through a lens of past experiences/relationships/childhood/ defences, and also a lens of what is emerging for the future, purpose and direction. Psychosynthesis helps to unravel the different, seemingly contradicting parts of ourselves, and find the “inner conductor” that is inclusive and can get all the parts to play in harmony. Psychosynthesis also explores the client with the greater whole; society, nature and cosmos. I support clients in cultivating their relationship with nature, as a place of resource and a mirror of their Soul. However, the relationship built between the therapist and the client in the here and now is the richest tool, more than any model/technique

About Me

He is a a Psychosynthesis Psychotherapeutic Counsellor. He provides a space to slow down, resource and recollect, through telling your story
and learning tools to calm, protect and care for yourself. He can help you understand how your past, present and future direction are all implicit in the symptoms, issues or longing that has led you to seek therapy. This can give you a deeper
experience of who you are, and where you really want to go in life.

Some presenting issues he has worked with are: anxiety, stress, depression, grief, relationship issues, disability, life limiting illness, childhood trauma, suicidal thoughts, self harm, sexual compulsivity and concerns about substance addictions, sexual expression and identity. Working with issues, tends to lead on to clients deeper search for purpose and direction in life.

His work as a therapist is also influenced by over twenty five years experience working as a Specialist Palliative Care Nurse supporting people living at the threshold of end of life.

He is passionate in using imagination, the body, dreams and nature as a resources and mirrors of the soul.

I work with

• Individuals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

Types of Therapies Offered

• Psychosynthesis Psychotherapeutic Counsellor

What I can help with

• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Cancer
• Chronic Illness
• Depression
• Disability
• Gender
• Health-related Issues
• Identity Problems
• Relationships
• Sexuality
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Suicide
• Terminal Illness
• Transgender