Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy
Mindfulness Based Psychotherapy, also known as Core Process, is an integration of Buddhist psychology and Western Psychotherapy, which understands that awareness is transformative. The awareness of our own nature enables an opening into change and healing, so that suffering can be eased as we allow spacious, compassionate acceptance to emerge.
Danielle has been trained in working with the body, developmental and attachment issues, relationship difficulties, and trauma.
Mindfulness Psychotherapy helps clients to meet difficult emotions, painful feelings and traumatic experineces in a more contained way. Through the practice of dual awareness (exploring the past whilst being in the present) clients can avoid merging with, or re-living the painful memories and experiences.
She supports clients in working with embodied sensations, bringing awareness to the body's subtle reactions and feeling tones, in the moment. This exploration of self is done in relationship and Danielle provides a safe and confidential holding environment for the client to be deeply heard and seen.
Danielle believes that through becoming more intimately aware of ourselves, our patterns of attachment and our previously hidden reactions and behavioural responses, we can open into a more self accepting way of being.
This relational psychotherapy can also help to ease self-critical thoughts, feelings and judgements. As we learn to meet ourselves with gentleness and compassion change can occur, allowing a greater sense of connection in ourselves, our relationships and our experinces of being human.
An initial meeting is offered free of charge for up to 40 minutes, this is an opportunity to meet and find out if you would like to begin Psychotherapy.
Danielle see's clients on a weekly basis, for one hour sessions.
Psychotherapy Can Help With Many Issues and Difficulties Including:
- Anxiety or an inability to cope or concentrate
- Problems dealing with stress or recovering from stressful situations
- Lack of confidence or extreme shyness
- Coping with the effects of abuse
- Feelings of depression, sadness, grief or emptiness
- Extreme mood swings
- Difficulty making or sustaining relationships, or repeatedly becoming involved in unsatisfying or destructive relationships
- Difficulties coming to terms with losses such as bereavement, divorce, loss of employment or childlessness by circumstance
- Self harm
- Sexual problems
- Obsessive behaviour and/or thoughts
- Panic attacks and phobias
- Eating disorders