Core Process Psychotherapy

What is Core Process Psychotherapy?

In Core Process Psychotherapy, we acknowledge a core of inherent health and well-being in everyone. This core gets obscured by the difficulties and suffering we experience as we go through life. Our lives can become organised by running away from our pain because the idea of facing our pain might feel frightening and overwhelming. Strategies that once helped us to survive trauma or suffering earlier in our life, end up causing us suffering the present, or restricting our capacity to enjoy life. And our bodies bear the impact of our experience in patterns of tension, posture, health problems, energy levels and so on.

I offer you an atmosphere of safety, warmth and acceptance in which you can explore whatever is happening for you in the present moment, at a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual level. The simple act of bringing awareness to how things are in our body, in this moment, is in itself transformative and is the start of the healing process: we begin to notice how tense we are, how anxious, sad or confused, and also how judgemental we feel about being tense, anxious, sad and confused. With that awareness, we can begin to stop fighting ourselves; we start to accept ourselves with more compassion and to have more choice. We are less ruled by our age-old patterns and habits of relating to ourselves, other people and the world.

We would do all this at your pace, as it is important that we build trust and that you stay resourced.

Core Process Psychotherapy has evolved out of a synthesis of Western psychotherapeutic approaches, Buddhist psychology and mindfulness practice, which has profound insight into the nature of suffering and how to release ourselves from it. But you do not have to be a Buddhist or to know anything about Buddhism to benefit from it.

Practicalities

If we decided to work together, we would meet weekly, at the same time each week, for an hour. Initially we would contract to meet for 6 sessions, at which point we would review how you were feeling about the therapy, and whether you wanted to continue.

Psychotherapy is an open-ended process and might last for weeks, months or even several years. It is different for each person.

Prices

I charge £60 per session.

What to do now

If you would like to explore the possibility of working together, please ring me on 07952064702 and we can arrange an initial consultation, free of charge.

This would be an opportunity for us to meet, for you to say what you are looking for, for you to get an idea of how I work, and for us both to get a sense of whether it feels right to work together.