My name is Anna and I am an MSc Humanistic Psychotherapist trainee.

I believe that we all have the potential for growth, whatever our experience. I am committed to facilitating that growth, collaboratively journeying alongside you. I use my training in Transactional Analysis ("TA"), Gestalt and Person-Centered Approach to help you recognise your communication patterns, improve your ability to express yourself effectively and better manage interpersonal relationships. Get to understand your internal parts that talk to you.

Understand your triggers. TA utilises the concept of three ego states: Parent, Adult and Child. Understanding these states helps you to recognise the behaviour triggers and how they interact with others. For example, my Critical part may be dominant when I am upset - with awareness, I may choose my Adult part to ensure I do not disrupt my relationships.

Explore your life scripts. Scripts are unconscious decisions taken by all of us since the time we were born - about ourselves, others and the world - which shape our behaviour and relationships throughout our lives.  Examples of life scripts are "I am not worthy", "I am not loveble", "I am a failure", "Life is difficult", "Life is not fair", "Others cannot be trusted". I can help you achieve your current needs and goals by identifying your script patterns.

Develop self-awareness by promoting reflection on one's own emotions, motivations and behaviours. I will help you explore your internal world and understand yourself better.

Perhaps, you have a specific problem or issue that wants attention, or a more general sense of unease or dissatisfaction with your life? Are you feeling overwhelmed, stuck in negative thoughts, having problems in your personal relationships, at home or at work? Sometimes painful experiences from the past can get in the way of fully responding to what happens in the present keeping us stuck in patterns of response that no longer serve. 

Psychotherapy offers you a safe and confidential space where you will be listened to carefully and without judgement. We carry within us the past as well as the potential for a different future. The therapy with me will help you build the capacity for flexibility and responsiveness to what life presents.

Starting a therapeutic relationship takes courage and commitment and can be daunting.  However, it will be life-changing.

I work holistically paying attention to the mind, body and soul.  I work creatively, use imagination and mindfulness techniques, dreamwork and sand tray to engage the mind and body in ways that are distinct from verbal articulation alone. Kinesthetic, sensory, perceptual, and symbolic opportunities invite alternative modes of receptive and expressive communication, which can bypass the limitations of language.

I believe that we are all born with innate wisdom and creativity, that sometimes gets lost in protective barriers that we have built in our past.

I work with adults face-to-face or online via Zoom from a quiet and comfortable therapy room in my home.