Listen without judgement

Try to understand your situation and what it means to you

Use my experience, training and compassion to help you understand your feelings 

You might not know what your feelings are yet.

Help you understand what you’d like to do about issues affecting you 

Be open to any ideas you have about your therapy process

how you think it’s going 

if you think it’s time to stop.

Confidentiality

Not share what we talk about with anyone - unless I feel there is a risk involved

Flexibility

Meet face to face initially, then we can discuss other ways to meet that might work for you.

‘get things off your chest’

identify and understand your feelings

develop ideas about what you’d like to do next

I don’t offer:

Simplistic advice

To tell you what to do

To know the answers (but I will sit with you and try to understand)

Open and curious

about your feelings

to new ideas

To the idea of therapy (or try to say what you don’t like).

Respectful