Soul Centred Psychotherapist
"when an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as Fate" C.G. Jung
SERVICES
A four year diploma in Soul Centred Psychotherapy at the Kairos Centre in Melbourne has provided me with techniques and capacities to work with the various experiences of life which call people to therapy.
These experiences may include:
- feelings of anxiety
- engagement with a life task eg.
- leaving home
- committing to a relationship
- becoming pregnant
- parenting
- menopause
- mid life issues
- a desire to understand dreams
- sleep issues
- sexual issues
- seeking relief from traumatic memories
- relationship difficulties
- depression or other troubling emotions
- body symptoms such as pain, nausea, headaches
- distressing thoughts or feelings
- perhaps just a sense of needing to be heard and attended to in a certain kind of way.
I have trained in techniques which are used to help clients have a more conscious, creative and manageable relationship with their experiences and to alleviate the unbearable aspect that such experiences can have.
These techniques include:
- Thought Matrix Meridian Therapy
- therapeutic ritual
- engagement with dreams
- chakra work
- working with parts of the self
- trance work
- Bilateral Stimulation Processing
- creative 'putting form to experience'
- working with archetypes
Soul Centred Psychotherapy as a process
As a Soul Centred Psychotherapist I create a safe and sacred space in which to engage with clients in a way that can form a deep and genuine therapeutic relationship. This relationship is essential to the process of journeying with clients in a soulful way. It provides a sense of safety, trust and containment within which the client can have the freedom to explore and bring present whatever naturally comes. As part of this relationship, I listen to the client’s story, both with a trained ear and a curious, compassionate heart. Sometimes it can be great relief to have someone genuinely 'hear'. I will ask questions such as “how was that for you?”, “what does this mean to you?”, “if this were to happen in your life, what might that give you a sense of?” and “what do you notice as you tell me this?”. With this kind of attention, the meaning and embodied experience of a client’s story can become more available to them.
An important aspect of engaging with psyche in a Soul Centred way is the development of mindfulness or a “witness” capacity. This is a quality of experience which I practice in the hearing of a client’s story and, where appropriate, this capacity can be taught to clients. This can cultivate client’s relationship with their own lived experience and Self overall. Our modern Western society tends to value “thinking” above all else. However, as a Soul Centred Psychotherapist I believe that it is crucial to also be mindful of other aspects of being human, such as feeling, sensing, imagining, and noticing our own relationship with the world and ourselves
When the overwhelming feeling which often accompanies trauma or pain interferes with the ability to have this full experience of being human, the techniques described above are employed in a gentle, client centred way to resource the client in managing the unbearableness, both in and out of therapy sessions.
In addition to these hearing, engaging, and resourcing techniques, which are essentially the skills of a counsellor, I have been trained with a particular emphasis which allows me to engage with a client in a deeper, more soulful way. In this way, a journey can be undertaken in which the meaning, beliefs and personal mythologies which underlie everyday experience can be made more conscious and available to the client. In this context, the relationship between therapist and client entails that I am a curious and knowledgeable companion and support person as clients explore the journey available to them. I feel deep respect and care for the uniqueness of each client as their journey unfolds with its own individual sense of timing and meaning. Throughout this process I hold to the Soul Centred understanding that there is no right or wrong way for this journey to occur ... no objective sense of the time the process 'should' take ... and no one you 'should' be.
I am informed and continually inspired by the thinking of people such as Carl Jung, Thomas Moore, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Marie Louise von Franz, James Hillman, Robert Johnson, Sylvan Tomkins, Milton Erikson and Babette Rothschild.
My work is enriched by the mythologies of Ancient civilizations, fables and faerytales from around the world, and the insights of Alchemy.
About Soul Centred Psychotherapy
Soul Centred Psychotherapy is the name given to a form of therapy that focuses on relationship, mindfulness, lived experience, attention, meaning, honouring, enchantment, and the sacred. It was developed in Australia in the 80's by Dr Kaali Cargill and Andrew Cargill, and uses both personal and archetypal or mythic approaches. Soul Centred Psychotherapy attends to the human experience through the everyday stuff of life: our thoughts, emotions, body sensations and symptoms, and the relationships we have with others and the world. Value, meaning, and healing emerge from within each person's unique process of inner work rather than from any external ideal. Soul Centred psychotherapy is not about fixing something that is broken, but about attending to the rich language of soul as it manifests in our day to day lives.
In Soul Centred psychotherapy, we allow time to develop relationship with whatever is happening, to attend fully to inner experience, and to work respectfully and systematically for change. We use techniques from energy psychology to support the processing of painful memories and past traumatic experiences. This ensures that the process is not overwhelming and that change and healing occur appropriately for each person.
For more information about Soul Centred Psychotherapy please visit www.kairoscentre.com
Session Details and Fees
The time taken for sessions is 1½ hours, either weekly or fortnightly. $80 per session
*Concession fees can be discussed.
To make an appointment or to discuss my approach I invite you to call me 0413 914 011.
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
- Diploma of Soul Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy (int.)
- Associate member of the Association of Soul Centred Psychotherapists (ASCP) constituent member of the Association of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia Inc. (PACFA)
- ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis) therapist for children with autism
- B.A Psych (Hons), Australian National University.
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