Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy offers emotional and psychological support in the safety of a confidential, professional relationship.
We exist in relation to other human beings, to our family and friends, to different communities, the environment... Those relationships shape us and our lives. Faced with difficult childhood experiences we tend to build defences to protect ourselves. However, as we mature we can experience how these protective mechanisms stop us from fully living our lives, block our ability to give and receive love...
Psychotherapy supports you whilst you explore any challenges you may be experiencing in order to reconnect with a greater sense of wellbeing.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a practice of bringing attention to and witnessing our experience: thoughts, emotions and sensations as they arise within our body and mind, in an accepting, non-judgemental way. Jon Kabat Zinn (known for bringing mindfulness to the mainstream of medicine and society) describes mindfulness as "heartfulness". Along with paying attention to our experience as it is unfolding we practice compassion. This can create conditions for us to experience ourselves with more clarity, fluidity and kindness, allowing transformation to naturally occur.
Mindfulness based psychotherapy cultivates mindfulness in the relationship. The relationship between therapist and client is an essential part of the work. It creates safe ground for you to experience yourself in the relationship, to gently bring awareness to those parts of yourself that have been lost, silenced, locked away. It provides oportunity to identify beliefs that keep you repeating patterns from the past.
I offer Core Process Psychotherapy which is described as mindfulness based psychotherapy or depth psychotherapy.
It is a form of psychotherapy that draws upon and integrates Western psychotherapeutic theories and techniques with Buddhist psychology and mindfulness practices. It is described as 'depth psychotherapy' as it pays attention to early formative and developmental experiences and how they shape who we are today.
Core Process Psychotherapy is based on the assumption that in the core of our experience there is innate, inherent health and awareness that is clear, spacious and unclouded by even the most challenging conditions. Core Process Psychotherapy holds the intention to reconnect with this experience of innate health by paying attention to how we are at present moment (practice known as mindfulness).
"Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary, to which you can retreat at anytime and find yourself." Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
Psychotherapy is generally perceived as talking therapy, though there is often more to our experience than we are able to put into words. Core Process Psychotherapy is body oriented psychotherapy. My intention is to support you with listening to your body and processing material that you can sense in your body, finding words to convey what you are sensing.
You do not have to have any previous experience in mindfulness or meditation to begin Core Process Psychotherapy. You are welcomed as you are.
All practicing Core Process Psychotherapists are required to have an ongoing contemplative or meditative practice. This helps to sustain awareness and develop a field of presence from which to listen to and hold clients at depth.
Please contact me for more information or if you would like to arrange an introductory meeting.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy offers emotional and psychological support in the safety of a confidential, professional relationship.
We exist in relation to other human beings, to our family and friends, to different communities, the environment... Those relationships shape us and our lives. Faced with difficult childhood experiences we tend to build defences to protect ourselves. However, as we mature we can experience how these protective mechanisms stop us from fully living our lives, block our ability to give and receive love...
Psychotherapy supports you whilst you explore any challenges you may be experiencing in order to reconnect with a greater sense of wellbeing.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a practice of bringing attention to and witnessing our experience: thoughts, emotions and sensations as they arise within our body and mind, in an accepting, non-judgemental way. Jon Kabat Zinn (known for bringing mindfulness to the mainstream of medicine and society) describes mindfulness as "heartfulness". Along with paying attention to our experience as it is unfolding we practice compassion. This can create conditions for us to experience ourselves with more clarity, fluidity and kindness, allowing transformation to naturally occur.
Mindfulness based psychotherapy cultivates mindfulness in the relationship. The relationship between therapist and client is an essential part of the work. It creates safe ground for you to experience yourself in the relationship, to gently bring awareness to those parts of yourself that have been lost, silenced, locked away. It provides oportunity to identify beliefs that keep you repeating patterns from the past.
I offer Core Process Psychotherapy which is described as mindfulness based psychotherapy or depth psychotherapy.
It is a form of psychotherapy that draws upon and integrates Western psychotherapeutic theories and techniques with Buddhist psychology and mindfulness practices. It is described as 'depth psychotherapy' as it pays attention to early formative and developmental experiences and how they shape who we are today.
Core Process Psychotherapy is based on the assumption that in the core of our experience there is innate, inherent health and awareness that is clear, spacious and unclouded by even the most challenging conditions. Core Process Psychotherapy holds the intention to reconnect with this experience of innate health by paying attention to how we are at present moment (practice known as mindfulness).
"Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary, to which you can retreat at anytime and find yourself." Siddhartha, Herman Hesse
Psychotherapy is generally perceived as talking therapy, though there is often more to our experience than we are able to put into words. Core Process Psychotherapy is body oriented psychotherapy. My intention is to support you with listening to your body and processing material that you can sense in your body, finding words to convey what you are sensing.
You do not have to have any previous experience in mindfulness or meditation to begin Core Process Psychotherapy. You are welcomed as you are.
All practicing Core Process Psychotherapists are required to have an ongoing contemplative or meditative practice. This helps to sustain awareness and develop a field of presence from which to listen to and hold clients at depth.
Please contact me for more information or if you would like to arrange an introductory meeting.