Further Questions
I do appreciate that some people, when researching or looking to work with a (new) therapist, feel at ease if they can understand some basics before making contact. Here are a few common questions that people like to know when approaching me. Again do reach out with any other questions you may have and I will be happy to help. Texting me directly on WhatsApp will be the quickest way to get a response.
What makes your approach different, would you say?
I am not that interested in what is wrong with you, I am far more fascinated in knowing what is right with you. Of course I understand you have things you need to discuss, but what I fundamentally believe in, is in helping to locate the full potential inside everyone.
What broadly happens in the therapy session?
Each client will arrive with their own set of individual issues.
The dynamic of the therapy itself is often determined by what you want to put into it. In my opinion, the therapist’s job is to contain what is brought into the space and to create a safe container that can hold your psychic material.
How is Humanistic, Person-Centered and Existential different to other forms of therapy?
Existential, Person-Centered and the rest of the Humanistic lead models of therapy are very much based in the ‘here and now’. It looks at the complete person. The Transpersonal looks at making us whole again.
What is transpersonal therapy?
The easiest way to describe the Transpersonal, is that it’s all about the ‘non-verbal’: our sense of things, our instincts, the essence of our true nature. The under current of feelings and sensations trying to speak to us – through dreams and physical embodied vibrations.
As an integrative transpersonal psychotherapist my work is to look at the complete person. The Good, The Bad
and the Ugly.
The idea is to uncover, discover, discard and recover those truer aspects of ourselves and facilitate a process of ‘bringing together’ the sum of all our authentic parts. The re-appropriation of our true selves and our authentic essence. In short, it focuses on locating our true nature vs who we ‘had to become’ and create a reunion with those abandoned or discarded parts from our early lives and re-integrate them into our adult lives if appropriate.
How can I be sure that the transpersonal therapy approach is right for me?
It might not be and that is fine. I am an INTEGRATIVE psychotherapist. Which means I will use whatever model at my disposal to help and assist the person in front me. I am not stuck on any one specific model. My experience, is that the Transpersonal work, can be deeply transformational. The best thing if you want to know more, is to first discuss what brings you to therapy, and what makes you curious about my way of working. From there we can shape together the most suitable initial approach. And you always have the right to stop or put on the brakes whenever the process feels too much.
I am totally new to therapy, and feel slightly overwhelmed by the choices available. Where would you suggest I start?
Try. We are in life to try – not to worry. I always start my work by getting to know you. What I mean by that is, I am not only interested in what your issues might be but I am genuinely fascinated in getting to know who you are. My objective isn’t to get to know you because of your issues and prognosis, but despite them.
You talk about addiction patterns, can you help me in this area and if so how?
Addiction patterns are mostly invested in recreating trapped trauma based emotions that need to be acknowledged. In therapy they should receive a compassionate enquiry and when it is safe to do so – be let go of. This what we mean by the process to discover, uncover, discard and recover.
Are there any other areas that you specialise in treating?
Inner-child work as this tool helps us to rewrite our life scripts – the inner software that needs to be either upgraded or deleted simply because, often enough, it never belonged to us in the first place.
Confidentiality
All therapists are bound by a code of ethics and are required to maintain confidentiality in sessions between the client and themselves. In order for you to feel comfortable and able to share openly you need to know your information is safe from the very beginning. It is important to note that there are some limits to confidentiality when the well-being of the client or people in the patient’s life may be at risk. This will be discussed in your first session.
Have further questions to what is covered here?
As before, if this resonates with you or this sparks more questions – please contact me, and we can set up a brief chat to go through questions you may want to ask me.