Welcome to Motivate the Mind

I am a qualified Integrative Psychotherapist (National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists – NCIP), Hypnotherapist, and Behaviour Specialist, with many years of experience, working with children, adults, couples and families… in various settings.

How could I possibly support you or your child?

• Talking through challenges and anxieties
• Overcoming grief or loss
• Learning to manage anger and emotions
• Enable reflection to develop confidence
• Refocus on mental health and well-being
• Various support work to deal with trauma

Why use therapy?

All of us require support at various points in our lives, whether that be to reflect on our purpose within this complex world, or to deal with challenges that we endure along the way. Talking and reflecting are positive tools to process complex times, whilst considering a way forward in a safe and therapeutic manner. The therapy I offer is varied, dependent upon need, and includes the use of different modalities (therapy types) in order to meet individual requirements. I aim to offer a relaxed process in order to allow the sessions to be effective and amiable, and these sessions are available, in person, over the phone or via ZOOM.

I am experienced in working with both children and adults and obviously adapt my delivery to meet the age and need – e.g. young children may benefit from more play-based therapy if appropriate, in order to enable effective engagement.

Philosophy…

How do we review what is right and what is wrong? How do we balance harmonies of difference? We do this through reflection based on needs, those of both adults and those of children/young people…

“Our subconscious minds have no sense of humour, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives” (Robert Collier, ND).

Why am I a therapist?

I have always had a passion to support others and worked for many years in a youth work management capacity, supporting the more vulnerable and disadvantaged young people and their families in many areas. This offered me a great opportunity to fulfil a rewarding profession in supporting individuals to grow and develop both emotionally and socially.

Following this, I then worked for many years as a behaviour specialist working with children at risk of exclusion from education. Again, this role enabled me to develop more skills in supporting emotional well-being and reflecting on behaviour, which I have developed through additional training over the past ten years. Whilst, completing this role I then started to conduct more 1:1 work with children and continued further study in counselling therapy.

I now run my own business working with children, adults, families and couples and have recently decided to set up my own therapy room to enhance further my service to others. This complements my work in schools and my teaching.