Are you a creative that just can't seem to get where you feel you should be? ...is the creative process causing far more pain then you think it should? or are you creatively rocking it but the business side of things is causing heaps of stress?
For these or any other creative crisis, I can help.
Using a therapeutic counselling approach, I can support your growth towards understanding and addressing the often complex internal struggles that prevent you from identifying the clear and coherent direction you need to move in, which in turn can unlock an energised commitment and productive flow.
MY APPROACH
Although I'm a very creative person, the counselling I offer isn't anything like Creative Coaching or Skills Development as would be the case with pure CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy).
My approach is primarily Person-Centered, which means that what works for me, or anyone else for that matter, almost certainly isn't what will be right for you... and it is only you that has the answers that can unlock your potential, and my role is to help that to emerge.
The complicated thing about creativity and just being human is that the paths that we often believe are unquestionably right, often are accompanied with negative symptoms like confusion, doubt, stuckness and procrastination. Person-centered counsellors see this as a misalignment (incongruence) between the rationalising side of us and the deeper, sub-conscious (organismic) part, and a lot of our training involves learning how to help these parts to come into congruence, and thereby facilitate the right kind of growth.
MY EXPERIENCE
I completed 3 years of counsellor training at East Riding College (Beverley) in 2024 receiving a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and becoming qualified to practise.
As part of that training we have to complete 100 hours of real client counselling at a placement of our choosing (alongside having monthly professional supervision) and I gained my hours with a self-help housing charity (Giroscope) and with an addiction service (OSHI), both of which I still volunteer with.
During my time there I've successfully supported clients who were struggling with significantly distressing life events, personal growth, trauma, addiction and grief.
I'm a member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), am insured and DBS checked.
ON THE COUNSELLING RELATIONSHIP
Research strongly suggests that the efficacy of counselling depends in the first instance on the relational connection of counsellor and client - and with a positive connection, significant personal growth is possible. Therefore (as with my clinical work) at the end of the initial session we'd discuss whether a productive counselling bond feels possible, which I've found always can be appropriately intuited at that time.
