Hello, I'm Devi.
I’m an integrative therapist offering talking therapy for adults and young people (14+). I have been working as a therapeutic practitioner for over twelve years, both in private practice and in secondary schools as a school counsellor working with students and staff.
How can talking therapy help?
Appraising your thoughts, emotions and behaviours with a therapist can be transformative. Exploring your current challenges with someone outside of the spheres of family and friends can help you see your difficulties from a different perspective, enabling you to create new narratives. I can help you articulate and understand life patterns which might be keeping you stuck or getting in your way. Together, we can shine a light on experiences, beliefs and behaviours that could be contributing to your difficulties and impacting unhelpfully on your life. I can encourage you with developing self-awareness, within the context of your individual life history, so that you can understand yourself better and the idea of change can begin to feel possible.
Talking therapy is a unique source of support for whole range of mild-moderate psychological issues including anxiety, social anxiety, anger, and low mood. Therapy is also incredibly powerful on a deeper level for exploring and understanding your history, your relationship with yourself and any unique relational patterns you have developed which might be causing issues for you, your relationship, your friends or work. Therapy can help you to process significant life events and understand how those experiences might affect you in the here and now, or perhaps explore any unhelpful thinking habits, strategies and behaviours that are no longer effective and are in need of an update.
What is integrative therapy?
I strongly believe that establishing a strong, supportive and collaborative therapeutic relationship is the key to successful therapeutic outcomes. However, it is useful to know what kind of therapy you might be offered to help you reach your goals. As an integrative therapist my counselling work integrates a blend of psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural (CBT) modalities. Each approach works on exploring and gaining insight into your unique behaviours, beliefs and emotions which may be underpinning, and contributing to, your current life challenges.
Integrative therapy is a combined approach to therapy which flexibly blends components of different therapies. Integrative therapists work with the idea that there is not one sole therapeutic approach that fits every client in every situation. Instead, each person needs to be considered holistically in terms of their physical, mental and emotional well-being. Therapeutic interventions are therefore tailored accordingly to individual needs and personal circumstances by using specific techniques and key concepts drawn from various approaches.
Training, qualifications & experience
• Advanced Diploma in Adlerian Psychotherapy
• Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling Children and Young People (University of Northampton)
• Level 5 Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapeutic (CBT) Skills and Theory
Registered bodies
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Registered Member of BACP – No.657356 (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy)
Fees
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£65 per session (50 minutes)
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Concessions/reduced fees are available in some circumstances - please contact me to discuss