ABOUT ME ​

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Hi, I’m Sarah and I believe that therapy is above all, about human relationship. My aim is to offer a warm, compassionate and non-judgemental space where you can feel safe enough to bring your struggles, hopes, fears and the questions that matter most to you.
Through my own therapeutic process, I discovered the transformative power of being truly heard, understood and accepted, and it was this experience that inspired me to train as a counsellor and psychotherapist to support others in finding their own path towards healing, self-discovery, personal and spiritual transformation.
As a Psychosynthesis Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, I combine traditional psychological understanding with an appreciation of spirituality, creating a supportive and holistic therapeutic space. Alongside understanding emotional wounds and patterns, I am interested in the deeper questions of who we are, what gives our lives meaning, and how we can live more authentically and in alignment with ourselves.
I have a particular interest in working with experiences of anxiety, shame, low self-worth, isolation, relationship difficulties, anger, depression and life transitions. I also welcome clients who wish to explore spirituality, spiritual identity, psychic experiences or a sense that there may be something more calling for expression in their lives.
I have always found inspiration in the natural world and in the resilience, vulnerability and extraordinary capacity for growth that exists within all of us. I believe that even our most painful experiences can become opportunities for healing, transformation and deeper connection.

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WHAT IS PSYCHOSYNTHESIS PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC COUNSELLING? 

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Psychosynthesis is a psychospiritual style of therapy meaning that it embraces a spiritual dimension of the human being as fundamental to psychic health and full human development.
It is primarily a talking therapy, sharing commonalities with person-centred and integrative styles of counselling. The focus is very much on gentle, empathic and compassionate enquiry, building up a sense of safety and trust within our relationship to facilitate the exploration of your life experience and the feelings and emotions that may arise in response. 
Psychosynthesis has its roots in psychoanalysis and pays attention to the unconscious, helping you to discover and learn about patterns, mindsets and beliefs that have developed in your life and which might be impacting on you or limiting your life experience in the now. Tools such as guided meditations and visualisations, subpersonality work, somatic work and drawing, are often incorporated into sessions to create a bridge to the unconscious and to deeper aspects of our being that may otherwise be uncontactable.
It is a psychology of hope, love and will, because it reaches towards the potential in each one of us. At the deepest level, it regards the problems and obstacles we encounter in our lives as meaningful and potentially transformative, and seeks to support the individual through their suffering whilst also guiding them on their personal journey towards uncovering what may emerge or evolve in response to their challenges. We cannot erase our history, but with the development of compassionate self-awareness, we can learn to work with it and embrace our own inherent, soulful and unique potential for transformative growth, creativity and self-expression.
Psychosynthesis is not a religion, but recognises and acknowledges a spiritual core, higher self or divinity, allowing you to explore your historical wounding as well as more existential enquiries - questions such as "Who am I in the universe?"

 

QUALIFICATIONS

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· Diploma in Psychosynthesis Psychology - Institute of Psychosynthesis, London

· Diploma in Psychosynthesis Counselling - Institute of Psychosynthesis, London

· Diploma in Psychosynthesis Psychotherapeutic Counselling and Psychotherapy (In progress) - Institute of Psychosynthesis, London

· Level 2 & 3 Certificate in Person Centred Counselling Skills