I have worked with many hundreds of clients since I started my first training as a counsellor back in 1992, both in private practice and in the NHS in East London where I worked as a clinician and manager for seven years. I now offer brief and longer term therapy to individuals and couples, and supervise the work of other counsellors and psychotherapists.  Both my counselling and psychotherapy trainings were humanistic trainings, an approach that takes an essentially optimistic view of human nature and which emphasises our capacity for growth and self-determination, our strivings for freedom and the inherent dignity of the person in all dimensions . I am interested in de-mystifying the process of counselling / therapy and aim to engage and communicate in as direct and straightforward a way as possible. For a more complete elaboration see my website https://www.aisthesis.co.uk/