Integrative Transpersonal Therapy
What is it?
Therapy sessions are shaped around individual needs, preferred ways of working and therapeutic goals. Depending on what we are exploring, different approaches may be appropriate. These can draw on psychodynamic, humanistic, existential and transpersonal schools of thought.
Integrative therapy recognises that there is no single way to understand ourselves, relate to others or work through difficulties. It provides a flexible framework for exploring individual experience, developing insight and making meaningful changes.
The term “transpersonal” acknowledges that we may experience life as having a spiritual or soulful dimension. Therapy offers the possibility of exploring what this means, if anything, for each individual, irrespective of religious or agnostic beliefs.
This perspective makes room to consider the different aspects of who we are, including our minds, emotions, bodies and our sense of who we are at a more fundamental level.
Tools & Practices
My training includes a range of phenomenological and creative methods, including creative imagination, Gestalt techniques, dreamwork, sand-tray work, body-based approaches, and archetypal and alchemical perspectives.
Where appropriate, and according to your preferences, we may use these methods to explore experiences that are difficult to access or express through conversation alone.
Creative and experiential work can help us move beyond trying to “figure things out” intellectually. It allows room for intuition, imagery, bodily experience and aspects of ourselves that may be less familiar, offering different ways of understanding and responding to our difficulties.
These approaches can be particularly useful when we recognise a recurring difficulty but feel uncertain about how to move forward, or when we find ourselves caught in a dilemma that seems difficult to resolve.