Within each of us lie the answers to the issues we face when we seek out therapy. This is part of the basis underlying the PCA. We all have tremendous power within us to enact changes that we might want to see. Yet often solutions seem unclear, lost in a fog just out of reach.

Fundamentally my role is to offer complete dedication to you in a safe physical and mental space where I aim never to make assumptions nor will I ever judge you.

The atmosphere will be warm, supportive and you will be at the centre of everything. 

Not feeling judged but rather feeling respected in every sense of the word, for your thoughts and actions and beliefs, will give you space and hopefully some peace to pause in your life. To reflect. To talk. To think. This space within your life means that for one precious hour a week, you can start, at your own speed and direction, to look inside yourself. Perhaps go to areas of your past that you have never dared look at before.

It takes a lot of courage to come to therapy for the first time. I knew intuitively that I needed some help from outside to make sense of the pain I had held inside me most of my life yet avoided it for a long time.

Like many gay men and women, I grew up with a lot of homophobia internalised deep within me that came from society around me. I was also terrified that if my family and friends ever found out I would lose them from my life. Reflecting on this now I wish I had discovered therapy sooner.

You may have shied away from therapy because, like I had been, you were scared of what you might find and perhaps, also like me, scared that the therapist might make you become someone who was somehow no longer you. 

In fact, through successful therapy the opposite takes place. You start to become the ‘real’ you, casting off the emotional pain brought about by society’s judgemental attitudes and our own vulnerabilities. 

Pain and traumatic experiences can be ignored and suppressed. This is what we all tend to do in our childhoods and as adults. Through therapy, through talking to a therapist who has no role in your life other than to be there for you, to listen, to reflect, perhaps to help you guide yourself, you can start to experience life in a different way. My aim is that you will begin to feel less burdened, less bothered by trials and traumas. More able to learn who you are and to live as yourself.

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