Have you a sense of how these turbulent times may be an opportunity to turn inward and enquire into what's really going on in our consciousness, and in our relationship with ourselves and others?

Maybe you have a feeling of being stuck, at a crossroads, uncertain about your future? Are you getting older and constantly thinking about how your life still doesn’t feel right?

Are your ways of managing through alcohol, food or sex just creating more problems for you?

Does your sparkly, exciting career now feel like just a series of events?

If you are someone with a spiritual or religious practice, what happens when you encounter difficulties that may leave you feeling disillusioned and isolated, no longer sure of your identity or purpose?

Sometimes we all need to stop and turn our attention inward when life doesn’t turn out as expected. Many of us feel in need of help with anxiety, depression, sexual or relationship difficulties, loss and grief, feelings of emptiness, hopelessness or incapacitating fear. Individual psychotherapy can be a journey of exploration that offers a confidential, impartial and compassionate space to engage with emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual experience.

A therapeutic relationship can help in accessing the intelligent healing capacities of our own body and mind when life presents us with unexpected changes, dilemmas and transitions. The opportunities it offers for curiosity, insight, discovery and growth in turn can inform and enrich how we relate to the conditions, people and situations of everyday life. Short-term counselling can help support people through difficult times, while longer-term psychotherapy offers a context for acceptance and deep exploration into suffering and well-being.

As a UKCP Registered psychotherapist in private practice I work according to professional codes of ethics and good practice. I have a practice in Edinburgh at The Whole Works and at Tara Trust opposite Haymarket railway station.