I have interest, experience and specialist training in working with emotional intensity in relationships and associated experiences such as gaslighting, power and control dynamics and domestic violence. I have accompanied individuals through their journey with grief and loss, adjustment at different stages of their lives. Also, I am able to draw on basic CBT concepts to work with worry, anxiety and panic.

I have experience of working safely with anger, fear as well as excitement and joy. I am able to work with apathy as well as depression. In my practice I work with emotions ranging from connecting to these, labelling feelings and expressing them in a choiceful way. I am also told they appreciate my ability for gentle and/or direct challenge as/when we agree this as an approach. Naturally, this happens when the right conditions are there - not dissimilar to growing plants - sunshine and water being essential.Ĭlients' inform me that I am compassionate, warm and honest. Together we might explore pressure or choice points in your life or way of living within the context that human beings have a natural tendency for balance and wholeness (i.e. I am an integrative psychotherapist - I look at how things regulate together or indeed where there is incongruence. Undoubtedly, this helped shape my approach to my work - exposing me to working with body (concepts like character armour/self-protection), Psychodynamic (attachment and relational bonds), Gestalt (foreground/background and flow) and TA approaches (drivers, dynamics). This can offer another layer to my work - it is also great for bypassing any inner critic or censor.Īs a psychotherapist, we are required to undertake a client journey ourselves - this is across many years. I am also trained to work with metaphor, images, words and other creative means in therapy. Every year I complete new training and in 2017 completed training in online counselling. This took me on a new path leading to a psychology degree and professional training in psychotherapy completed in 2008. My journey into psychotherapy happened by chance - through my work as a translator - I discovered the transformative power of psychotherapy programmes in street projects in Brazil. I have a love of culture and languages having been raised cross culturally in England and Portugal. My ethos, is that therapy needs to be accessible, flexible and tailored to each persons individual needs.

I love that therapy gifts us a helicopter perspective, a zooming out and shift in viewpoint.Īcross the years, I have been fortunate to build vast experience working with clients and patients in the NHS, at Bupa, within universities and also private practice. Psychotherapy, enables us to understand our relational ties and dynamics and step towards our relationships with fresh eyes. Importantly, it can provide holding during those difficult life experiences. It offers the potential for a metaphorical spring clean or MOT, space to process, reframe and recalibrate or rehearse the possible. Why not book an initial session to see if you think my approach suits you?įor me, therapy can benefit everyone. I really would love to help you and I provide a nourishing safe and non-judgemental holding space, so you have nothing to worry about. My work is also underpinned by my own programme of self-care and continued personal and professional development, to make sure you receive the most dedicated support possible. It draws upon my natural strengths and has been finely tuned over many years of theoretical and practical experience. The work I do is more than just a job to me. My mission is to turn my passion for change into supporting my community and a world that I want my own family to grow up in. My choice of profession has been born out of a fundamental desire to help heal people. My practice embraces diversity in all its forms and I work keenly with people of all gender identities, sexualities, abilities, ethnic backgrounds, age groups, etc. Trauma surrounding childbirth, miscarriage & post-natal depression.Ĝatastrophizing (Expect the worst will happen).Struggling to getting up in the morning.Struggling to carry out day to day activities.This is not an exhaustive list, but here are a few of the symptoms that I have helped people with over the years.

I use the key techniques of Gestalt psychotherapy: symbolic work, two chair work and dream work in a deeply empathetic way. The aim of this process is to help you explore the cause of the issues, support you while you make the necessary adjustments, and then arm you with your own inner resources to continue your recovery journey. I am a facilitator of change, and just like scaffolding, I support my client while the delicate restorative work is ongoing. Hi I am Ellie and I am a highly experienced and qualified psychotherapist who is based in Hull, East Yorkshire and over the years I have helped a wide range of clients who have experienced different issues.

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