The Psychosynthesis approach to counselling takes the view that each of us has a purpose in life and that we have challenges and obstacles to meet in order to fulfil that purpose.
We are not in fact one unified person, but various personalities and sub-personalities struggling continuously with each other; impulses, desires, principles and aspirations are often in conflict.

Our essential task is to bring clarity and mastery into this confusion, to create a more unified and 'synthesised' being.

We find when the various elements of our being are in conflict, our energy becomes blocked and this causes pain.
However, each time that a synthesis of two or more parts of our personality occurs, energy is freed and we experience a sense of profound wellbeing.

This is the essence of Psychosynthesis:
The integration of all our component parts around a unified centre.
The tendency towards synthesis is inherent within us.

Psychosynthesis, rather than being an artificial imposition of techniques, simply unblocks and stimulates a process that is more closely allied to us than any other: becoming who we are.

My role is to accept and support each person in exploring their presenting problems, while I see and reflect back to them, my sense of their whole being, including their mental, emotional, physical and spiritual selves.

Psychosynthesis offers valuable techniques to support personal growth and to find the doorways to each individual's creativity and potential, in an increasingly competitive world. It is a humanistic, transpersonal approach which can help with a wide range of of problems.

My Training and experience
I qualified as a Psychosynthesis 'Guide' in 1993, worked for 6 years in private practice as well as with a counselling service for Somerset County Council employees, as part of a team.
I continued to use my counselling skills in my work helping to run a meditation and environmental awareness centre on the Welsh borders for 6 years before returning to my roots in Dorset in 2006.