Virginie | Integrative counsellor

Counselling Aylesbury

Taking the decision to reach out and finding the right counsellor is a very important step in a person's life. I am passionate about giving people the supportive space they need to restore their equilibrium and explore what is important to them.

A safe place where you can grow and blossom - I will not offer advice, but will offer a response appropriate to the material you have shared, perhaps offering a new perspective.

Counselling can help

Are you feeling depressed, anxious and unworthy; suffering loss, bereavement, abuse, or just wanting to make sense of the world and know yourself better? Counselling can help. As a psychotherapist my main concern is to provide you with an environment where you fell feel safe and accepted. A place where you can speak freely and reflect without been judged regardless of who you are.

I value each person as a unique being who is just trying to do the best they can use the resources that they have as they respond to the world around them in the way they have learn to subsist. I enter every relationship with a deep sense of respect and compassion. I believe in the inherent potential growth in each of us.

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. “ Sigmund Freud.

My approach is integrative

What I like about integrative counselling is that it brings together different component of specific therapy, allowing me to be flexible and focus on the whole of an individual. By integrating different approaches I can adapt to meet individual needs and concerns. I have integrated some Humanistic and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy into my practice.

Humanistic

I will use the core condition to create a warm therapeutic relationship, providing in turn a safe holding environment - Everyone should be let to tell their story.

“The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.”

Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy.

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Sometime our unconscious holds onto painful feelings and memories, which can be too difficult for the conscious mind to deal with. This approach can help can give you a better understanding of your issues and gain self-knowledge of what is happening in your day to day life in addition to symptom relief.

“Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you” Donald Woods Winnicott.

Transactional Analysis
I use this  method used to analyze the process of transactions in communication with others. It requires us to be aware of how we feel, think and behave during interactions with others, in order to change and imporve interpersonal relationship. I beleive that if you can change the way you interact with somone you will be able to change and improve the realtationship with that person. 
“The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.” Eric Berne