Personal Growth & Self-Development Therapy

When You Are Looking for Something More Than Relief

Not everyone who comes to therapy is in crisis. Many of the people I work with are functioning well, holding down jobs, maintaining relationships, getting through their days, and still quietly aware that something is not quite right. They might describe it as feeling disconnected from themselves, going through the motions, a persistent sense that they are living a life that looks right on paper but does not fully feel like theirs.

Perhaps you are at a point where the old answers no longer fit. You have done the things you were supposed to do, and the expected sense of arrival has not arrived. Or you sense that there is more to you than the way you currently live allows, and you do not quite know how to access it. Or you simply want to understand yourself better, without needing a crisis to justify the work.

How Therapy Can Help

Personal growth work in therapy is not about fixing a problem. It is about bringing curiosity and depth to questions that most of us do not make time for: who am I underneath the roles I play, what do I actually value, where am I living from fear rather than choice, what is trying to emerge that I have been too busy to notice.

I draw on psychosynthesis, a psychology developed by Roberto Assagioli that takes the whole person seriously, including the parts of us that want meaning, creativity and purpose, not only the parts that want relief from suffering. I also use Internal Family Systems-informed work, which helps you understand the different parts of yourself and how they interact, so that the inner conflicts that keep you stuck can be worked with rather than suppressed.

Who This Work Is For

• People navigating a sense of something missing that is hard to name
• Midlife reflection, questioning the path you are on, or wondering what comes next
• Creative or professional work that feels blocked in ways practical advice cannot shift
• A desire to live more authentically and less in line with inherited expectations
• Spiritual or existential questions that other therapeutic approaches have not made room for
• People who have done surface work and want to go deeper

What to Expect from Sessions

The work is exploratory rather than goal-driven. We follow what is alive in you, rather than working through a fixed programme. Some sessions will focus on understanding a current situation. Others will be quieter and more reflective. Many will involve working with parts of yourself that rarely get a voice: the critic, the people-pleaser, the one who holds it all together, the one who has been waiting for permission.

Individual counselling sessions are 50 minutes and cost £70. Sessions take place online across the UK.

Further Reading

• Why Do I Feel Like Two Different People? Understanding Your Inner Conflict
• Why Am I So Hard on Myself?
• What to Expect From Your First Counselling Session
• Does Online Therapy Actually Work?