I have an interest in meditation and in 2014 I spent five months living in three Buddhist monasteries/temples in South Korea, Myanmar and Thailand. I now benefit from visiting a Buddhist monastery near Newcastle.
I have a therapeutic interest in the process of complex trauma arising out of routine or prolonged and repeated abuse within a relationship(s). This led me to explore my own experience of routine abuse in childhood and attend Ritual Abuse Network Scotland’s conference on organised abuse and satanic ritual abuse in the UK.
I have worked with young people and adults suffering with anxiety, depression, trauma / complex trauma, dissociation, routine or prolonged and repeated abuse within a relationship(s), ritual abuse, self-harm, suicidal impulse, relationship difficulties and people searching for meaning or change in their lives.
The following pages provide more information about my practice and experience as a counsellor:
- Person-centred/experiential counselling
- What are or what leads to mental health/psychological problems/difficulties?
- How might person-centred/experiential counselling help?
- What change(s) or direction(s) do clients in person-centred/experiential counselling tend to move toward?
- Specifying or sharpening a focus(es)
- Framework of possible general focuses with links to some possible resources