Adlerian Psychotherapy

Alfred Adler (one of the three founders of psychology- with Freud and Jung) saw our mental world as indivisible from our physical, emotional, and social experience of life. He recognised that early childhood, with its surrounding layers of social and collective conditioning, created a blueprint of thoughts and beliefs, with associated emotions and behaviours, which then determined the pattern of relationships with others, with self and with the world.

Collectively our blueprints of how we believe the world ‘is’ and how we need to operate in it so that we belong, determine our societies and all human experience, including our relationship with with natural world, which we have tended to see ourselvs as separate from. I offer an opportunity to examine and dismantle these blueprints where they are not serving us, enabling freedom of choice through insight, acceptance, and expansion of what is perceived as possible.

In this phase of humanity’s awakening, it is only as we individually embrace the inner workings of our minds and emotions with compassion that we will enable our world to transform. Spiritual traditions have long recognised each being as a universe, and that ‘heaven’ is within; quantum physics and biology are increasingly recognising the interconnectedness of all of life and the illusion of much that we have taken as fact. It is now more possible for us to bring science and spirituality into balance within our individual and outer epxressions of consicousness. We must also embrace what we have resisted collectively and individually (the shadows places where pain and suffering lurk) in the light of that consciousness, and the kindness of our hearts.

I have been practising Adlerian Psychotherapy and Counselling for eight years, and now focus on supporting those who are awakening to an understanding of our greater universal self and how we can gain freedom from limiting belifs and realities.

My holistic Adlerian approach remains central but collaboration involves a transpersonal approach - using visualisations to activate and integrate the right side of the brain through images, archetypes and metaphors. This spiritual/metaphysical and transcendental exploration seeks to harmonise our connection between ‘self’ and higher consciousness, which is sometimes described in terms of masculine and feminine energies. It offers profound and rapid balancing of the mental/emotional ego personality and I draw on my shamanic training here.