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Transpersonal therapy
Some difficulties are not only psychological. A loss of direction, a crisis of faith, a powerful spiritual experience or a quiet sense that life should mean more can be hard to bring to a conventional therapy room.
Psychosynthesis is a transpersonal psychology. It takes these questions seriously, alongside the everyday work of therapy: our history, our relationships and the patterns that keep us stuck. We attend to the whole person, including the part of you that seeks meaning.
You do not need to be religious or hold any particular beliefs. Clients come from every faith, and none.
What we might explore
- Loss of direction or purpose
- Crises of faith
- Spiritual experiences that are hard to make sense of
- Meaning after loss or change
My background
For a significant period I lived in an ashram in Brazil's Atlantic rainforest, a time of silence and inner practice that runs quietly through my work. I hold an MA in Psychosynthesis Psychology with Merit and a qualification in Psychosynthesis and Integrative Counselling, and am a Registered Member of the BACP (MBACP 397837).
Assagioli’s Egg of Being
A psychosynthesis map of the psyche. Its regions are not sealed off from one another: material moves between them throughout our lives.
- Lower unconscious
Our psychological past: early experiences, repressed memories and basic drives.
- Middle unconscious
Memories, thoughts and skills just below awareness, easily brought to mind.
- Higher unconscious
Our higher potential: intuition, inspiration, creativity and altruistic love.
- Field of consciousness
What we are aware of in the present moment: sensations, feelings, thoughts and images.
- The “I”
The centre of awareness and will: the part of you that observes and chooses.
- Self
A deeper, more enduring sense of who we are, which the “I” reflects.
- Collective unconscious
What we share with others and with humanity as a whole, beyond the individual.