What Is Life Therapy?
Life Therapy is an holistic therapeutic approach designed to help you access your natural instincts and innate creativity to heal yourself.
Life Therapy is about helping you to live well, whatever that means to you.
Life Therapy approaches healing primarily through relationship as it is how we relate to ourselves, to others, and to the world, that determines how well we adapt to life.
How Life Therapy Can Help You.
Chronic Anxiety: Anxiety is a natural response to an unresolved stressful situation. Sometimes it can be symptomatic of an unresolved trauma. It is generally centred around a fear or grief. They are not dissimilar. Grief generally relates to a broken relational connect, fear can be a broader sense of loss, or an anticipation of loss. Getting to the root of the cause can help people make sense of the why, and give them a framework for moving forward without the burden of anxiety bearing down on them.
Mental health concerns: Some people seek therapy to address conditions such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), or schizophrenia. Life Therapy offers support in the process of integrating and sometimes resolving these issues in peoples lives. This support can range across a spectrum of approaches too numerous to name here. This may include anything from being an active witness and advocate for an individuals healing journey, to questioning and making active invitations, to developing strategies for managing symptoms, to exploring the potential for integrating and resolving issues through deeper transformational processes.
Relationship issues: Difficulties in relationships, whether with a romantic partner, family members, or friends, can prompt people to seek therapy. Life Therapy can assist in improving communication, resolving conflicts, and developing healthier relationship patterns.
Life Transitions: Significant life events such as divorce, job loss, relocation, or the death of a loved one can lead to emotional distress and uncertainty. Life Therapy can provide guidance and support during these challenging times.
Self-Exploration and Personal Growth: Some people pursue therapy as a means of self-discovery, personal development, and achieving a greater sense of fulfilment. Life Therapy can provide a supportive and non-judgmental space for individuals to explore their thoughts, emotions, and goals.
Traumatic Experiences: People who have experienced traumatic events, such as physical violence or sexual abuse, or accidents, may seek therapy to process their experiences, reduce distressing symptoms, and work towards healing and recovery.
Stress management: High levels of stress, whether related to work, school, or personal life, can take a toll on mental and physical wellbeing. Life Therapy can help individuals develop effective coping strategies and stress management techniques.
Behavioural Issues: When people struggle with harmful behaviours such as addiction, self-harm, or compulsive behaviours, Life Therapy can offer support, guidance, tools for behaviour change, and recovery through the potentials of individual transformation.
Low Self-Esteem or Self-Worth: Life Therapy can help people improve their self-esteem, develop an appropriate and healthy self-image, and address underlying issues that can contribute to feelings of inadequacy or self-doubt.
Grief and Loss: The loss of a loved one can evoke intense grief and emotional pain. Life Therapy can provide a safe space to navigate the grieving process and find support during this difficult time.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy essentially means ‘Soul Healing’.
There are many different interpretations of the term soul, but in terms of how Life Therapy approaches healing, we take the term soul to mean ‘your unique way of experiencing life.’
Partly we are conscious of how we live, partly we remain unconscious. Some parts of life work better when we are unconscious of them. If I were to ask you to walk confidently for example you might first need to think about someone who walks confidently might walk. If I were to help you develop a state of confidence then you would walk confidently without thinking about the act.
We are, for the most part, designed to do things automatically, not to have to predict every twist and turn in life. The more we let the unconscious intelligence in us take charge – without surrendering our reason I might add – then we free up our conscious awareness to course correct, to take advantage of opportunities in our lives and to steer clear of threats.
Feelings of anxiety, depression, frustration, purposelessness, etc., often arise when this simple system goes out of balance.
Life Therapy is an holistic approach to healing. In part it aims to help you make sense of thoughts and feelings, sometimes by creating a space in which you can become conscious of unconscious patterns holding you back. Sometimes these unconscious patterns of behaviour can be resolved simply by correcting the balance in ones approach to life.
To draw from the example above. I can teach you to walk like a confident person by teaching you how a confident person walks, or I can help you to realise the confidence within you and when you walk you will walk confidently as a matter of course, simply because you will feel confident. You will not have to think or practice confidence or walking. Getting caught up in thinking how to live can inhibit us from just living.
Life Therapy is, in the simplest terms then, a relationship whose aim is to help you live of your life by reawakening your healthy instincts and creativity, and then embodying them.
How Will You Heal?
Life Therapy works by helping an individual make sense of their thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, in a way that helps them to remove unnecessary conflicts and complications, the sorts of states of being that can lead to confusion and anxiety.
Honesty and acceptance play a part in this process. The more honest you are with yourself, the more you learn to accept yourself where you are at, this will help you to heal going forward.
How you heal and how long it takes will depend upon a number of factors.
How Long Will Therapy Take?
Sometimes the process can be quick. Some people have experienced profound realisations from a single session and that is all they have required.
Some people I have worked with on and off over a number of years. When this occurs it is usually for separate issues though and periods of months can elapse between sessions.
My aim is to work as fast as I can whilst being as thorough as is needed for each individual case.
At the end of the day, it all depends on how well we connect, and how dedicated you are to the process of your healing.
How Will We Work Together?
Once we have identified a place to begin, which is usually that part of your life which feels like it isn’t working – or causing you pain – my first job is to better understand what is going on.
I do this by building a picture of your life in which we explore what is going on at a physical, social, and at a psychological level.
Sometimes, having someone to help build this picture with you can be enough to create a significant shift.
Sometimes it can be as simple as me asking a question you hadn’t thought to ask of yourself. Or it can be the one question you had been afraid to ask – or the one question that you already have an answer to but have been struggling to accept the truth of.
This part of the process is what is commonly referred to as talking therapy.
On those occasions where talking therapy is not enough we will make additional invitations, ones that appeal to the unconscious. This is the part that is often referred to as depth psychology or depth psychotherapy.
Approaches
What approaches we take will largely depend upon the conversations we have and your needs.
Life Therapy draws on a wide variety of practices and techniques, from clinical hypnotherapy, to art and drama therapy, to writing, to dreaming and dream interpretation, to tarot, and astrology.
Regulating and helping to balance the systems of the body can also help support mental and emotional wellbeing. Where patients and clients are willing, invitations to practice specific exercises are also offered.
Again, it is not so much about the tools themselves but how they can help you live more instinctually and creatively.
Next Step?
If you sense that the approach I offer is right for you then you can use the booking schedule below to book in your first session today.
Single session are available and last around 90 mins.
Blocks of sessions are booked out at 60mins each and are scheduled weekly, or bi-weekly as required.
In you are still unclear or would like to know how I might approach the specifics of your case, please accept this invitation to book in on a free introductory call today.
LIFE THERAPY
15 Minute Introductory Call No Charge
90 Minute Session £170
Block of 6 x 1 Hour Sessions £620
DISCLAIMER: I take every effort to ensure that I accurately represent my services and programs and their ability to lead patients and clients to experience positive change in their lives. It is my understanding that the services, programs, questions, and invitations that I provide and share have been shown to have an effect for the majority of people who have successfully engaged with them and with their own healing and personal development. While every effort is made to progress your healing, I can make no guarantee that you will experience improved physical, mental, psychological, or emotional well being, or that if you do, what timeframe it will occur in. In such cases the ceasing of treatment is invited and, where possible and helpful, alternative pathways offered.