With 25 years of experience, I offer both short-term and long-term psychotherapy and counselling for individuals including adults, teenagers and children, as well as couples and groups.
For those who wish to work creatively, as a dramatherapist I also offer the creative arts to support your process.
Below are some thoughts about coming into therapy which you may find helpful, especially if this is your first time.
Individual Therapy
No matter the life we have lived so far, no matter where we come from or where we are headed, needing help along the way is a common and healthy need. Asking for help takes courage and is a respectful commitment to yourself. Asking for help means you are willing to face something difficult – perhaps deeply painful, confusing, fearful - or to put the effort into discovering as yet unlocked creativity, to work towards some kind of positive change. It is hard to make sense of all the complexities of our lives if we remain struggling “bravely” on alone.
Whist friends, and for some, family members, can be a wonderful refuge for comfort and wisdom, there are times when we need a more focussed kind of help, alongside our usual support network.
I welcome you into a confidential space where, together we will tend to the thoughts, feelings and issues you wish to bring. Ultimately you will have your unique story, and my role is to listen and engage with you to help you understand yourself, the problems you are wanting to address, and the context in which you live, so that you might navigate your way to a more fulfilling life.
Alongside your individual therapy, I find it important to recognize how your personal story is shaped by the wider world—your cultural background and heritage, your social, political and economical environment, responses to your racial identity, your sexual and gender identity, the changing global environment—all of which influence your emotional, physical, and spiritual wellbeing.
If you would like to meet with me, I offer an initial free 20 minute online session in which we can see if we might be a good fit. After that sessions are weekly for 50 minutes either in person or online.
To get in touch: lizziecummings@outlook.com
Couples Counselling
Couples come into counselling for many reasons: communication breaks down; one or both partners are changing in some way; a life event has dis-rupted the relationship, trust has been challenged, something has got stuck, the love has got lost. My aim is to help you work out why and what is going wrong and to help you build healthy communication so that you might tend to your relationship with more understanding and agency.
Group Therapy
Group therapy can be a very supportive environment in which to work through the challenges and creativity of what it is to be a human being. With several people to give you feeback and responses, you receive a rich and varied reflection on who you are and ways to think and feel about the issues you bring. In group you get to be supported and also to offer support. It is also a cheaper option to individual counselling. I tend to use the creative arts to support this process:
The arts can help us to access our own personal and collective narratives. The wisdom and emotional intelligence of stories, imagery, film, poetry, movement and music provide us with an endless resource of understanding and reflection on who we are and our relationship to just about everything!
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