Fresh Start Mind~Matters - Online Therapy now in Bristol, Nottingham, Cambridge and abroad.



Fresh Start Mind~Matters Online Therapy now in Bristol, Nottingham, Cambridge and abroad.

How I Work And What To Expect

All are welcomed and should expect a warm and inviting nonjudgemental, safe environment.

I draw upon various therapeutic models such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Person-Centred Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Transactional Analysis, Internal Family Systems, and Gestalt.


Sessions are open-ended, short or long term and draw upon integrative therapeutic advantage, you discover your authentic self - your true identity and build up security and self-worth so that you are fully grounded.

Types of Integrative Approaches

Person-Centred Therapy

Person-centred therapy, also known as client-centred counselling, is a humanistic approach that works on believing that you have all the answers from within to thrive. The core purpose of person-centred therapy is to help you self-actualise and fulfil your potential. It is a non-directive approach, where you lead each therapy session.

I guide and support you in finding the answers while at the same time increasing your self-awareness and enhancing your self-esteem and self-confidence. This approach helps you reconnect with your values and sense of self-worth, enabling you to find your way to move forward.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Psychodynamic therapy helps you understand how past experiences, unconscious mind and impulses shape your current feelings and behaviour. Psychodynamic therapy can help with many different problems including anxiety, depression, eating disorders and addictions.

The goals of integrating this therapy are to increase the client's self-awareness and understanding of the influence of the past on present behaviour.

It helps you understand what you're feeling now, why you behave in a certain way, and how this affects your relationships. Often people who require this form of therapy say that they feel things are not quite right - they're not happy, not fulfilled or they feel isolated.

For this reason, Psychodynamic therapy can help to create fundamental change in your emotional development by focusing on unconscious processes as they are manifested in the client's present behaviour.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

CBT works on the concept that your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations and actions are interconnected; and that negative thoughts and feelings can trap you in a negative cycle of catastrophic thoughts.

CBT aims to help you deal with overwhelming problems more proactively by breaking them down into smaller parts and if necessary by challenging non-objective beliefs. CBT deals with your current problems rather than focusing on issues from your past.

Sessions focus on exploring and developing methods that deal with daily challenges and behavioural patterns. CBT is a short-term, goal-oriented therapy that teaches you how to improve your negative patterns by changing how you feel about what you think, and how you behave.

Transactional Analysis (TA)

Transactional analysis is a psychotherapeutic method used to analyse a process of transactions in communication with others. It requires us to become aware of how we feel, think, and behave during interactions with others. TA enables you to understand and analyse your personality and your relationship with others around you.

You develop insight into your thoughts, feelings and behaviours - as well as your unexplored potential. With this new insight, you can recognise your value and self-worth.

TA is helpful in its ability to improve relationships, reduce conflict, and improve individual life satisfaction and self-esteem.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

IFS is a transformative tool that conceives of every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts led by a core Self.

IFS is frequently used as an evidence-based psychotherapy, helping people heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts. IFS creates inner and outer connectedness by helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts.

IFS can enable power through self-leadership in achieving an internal balance, promote self-compassion; provide a better understanding of self and help prepare for any future emotional difficulty.

Explicit/overt Integration of Spiritual Interventions

These are person centred and client led, they are broad and might include:

  • Use of faith language, metaphors and analogies;
  • Taking a faith history of the client;
  • Use of spiritual relaxation and/or meditation as a grounding technique;
  • Assisting a client to explore their faith and beliefs and concerns;
  • Use of prayer (client led);
  • Exploring issues of guilt and/or forgiveness;
  • Exploring issues related to meaning and purpose;

Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt therapy is a form of psychotherapy that emphasises personal responsibility and focuses on the individual's experience in the present moment, the therapist–client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person's life, and the self-regulating adjustments people make as a result of their overall situation. Gestalt therapy is built upon two central ideas: firstly, the most helpful focus of psychotherapy is the experiential present moment.

Secondly, everyone is caught in webs of relationships and that it is only possible to know ourselves against the background of our relationships to others. Gestalt therapy focuses on process, which means, what is actually happening physically for the client, for example feeling angry, scared, sad or shaky over content (what is being talked about). Gestalt therapy's field perspective is that of the various organismic and field theories such as neuroscience.

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