Internal Systems Therapy
Counselling and Psychotherapy
Counselling and psychotherapy are, globally speaking, interchangeable words to describe a similar process.
Often, counselling is seen to be more supportive and person-centred. Psychotherapy, on the other hand, is seen to be more analytical and methodical.
Either way, internal systems therapy is an integrative approach that pulls from both approaches, thereby offering flexible and effective methods of changing how our internal systems work.
This approach helps us adapt to your needs and to support your own inner resources.
Together, we can bring you closer to the life you want to live.
Counselling
Counselling is about helping you to hear and value yourself. Together, we nurture your sense of self and strength by working to understand and untangle the problems that you face - often coming up against the conditions and beliefs that prevent you from seeing and being yourself fully.
This happens through a relationship of trust, compassion and curiosity.
This relationship helps us to find more balance, to acknowledge ourselves, our strengths and our weaknesses, and to learn to regard ourselves in high esteem as complex and remarkable humans.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is the practice of understanding and breaking maladaptive cycles of being.
These can be rooted in a variety of places: developmental, behavioural, cognitive, emotional, neurological, and others.
Sometimes these cycles are known to us, and sometimes they aren't. Often, we see only parts of ourselves, but not the whole picture.
Psychotherapy helps provide the space, time and focus to really see more deeply into these cycles, and start loosening their hold on our lives.
To support this process, which is often difficult, we seek to understand the cycles themselves.
We then use what we've learned to find creative and effective ways of breaking free of these cycles.
These include methods from CBT, parts work, systems therapy, and other frameworks.
Each is used only as much as you find it helpful. Anything that doesn't fit is swapped out for something that might.
As with all systems however, positive change usually takes both time and effort.
Breaking free of patterns that have been ongoing for years will need motivation and work. Application outside of therapy is therefore essential to lasting growth. Learnings are gathered and capitalised on from session to session, and every day, you break free from the cycles that held you stuck, as you develop new, chosen, ways of being.
What is known, however, is that the work pays.
Energy spent on ourselves is worthwhile.
It is important.
You are worthwhile - and you deserve to be free.
