Life is challenging at times. Responsibilities feel like burdens. Relationships lack connection. It is understandable to seek a place to feel safe and secure. Isolation can feel heavier, being stuck in our minds, ruminating of past experiences, questioning belonging, listening to self criticism. I offer clients a warm connection to feel seen, heard, and understood. Our therapeutic relationship is authentic, focussed on sharing your ideas and awareness, with no expectation or judgement. Voicing negative thoughts, uncomfortable emotions and difficult memories will bring a mutual understanding why you feel overwhelm, directionless, or powerless. I will be with you every step of the way to improve self-esteem, moving from coping towards self direction. 

Sharing what is troubling you can feel uncomfortable, particularly with friends and family. You disclose your issue quickly, hoping it will not be judged, nor offered a "should" solution that doesn't resonate. I listen with empathic curiosity, slowing it down, understanding context, reflecting back to establish mutual clarity that makes sense to you. Having your hopes, fears, identify, addiction, ADHD, trauma, deprression be received with unconditional positive regard builds a foundation where you can begin to see things differently.

Stress can be difficult to manage. Often stress impairs the connection with people most important to us. Surprising stress can lead us to present a false self to the outside world, or engage in harmful behaviours. Stress factors: expectations by others, crossing boundaries, need for validation, fear of exclusion all have a compounding affect on mental health and wellbeing. Regulating emotions and heightened sensitivities will facilitate an openness to new experiences.

I help individuals with a wide variety of challenges:

Relationships:  Family issues, intimacy, improved communication, promoting own needs versus pleasing others.

Mental Health: alleviating stress, depression, addiction, loneliness, self harm

Trauma & Loss: Bereavement, chronic illness, divorce, financial difficulty

Wellbeing: managing anxiety, neglect, burnout, low self-esteem, work / life balance 

Identity: sexuality, retirement, redundancy

I am an Integrative therapist, drawing on different modalities to adapt to where you are at. For example:

Person-Centred: building trust from renewed understanding of our "humanness" and fallability

Gestalt: mind body connection. The body communicates things that words cannot

Existential: exploring life's meaning, one's purpose

Internal Family Systems: complexity of our various parts that overwhelm a sense of safety

CBT: solutions focussed. Challenge beliefs to verify rational thinking

We will work towards your goals for therapy. I will listen with openness and care, reflecting back to articulate meaning, guided by shared principles of acceptance and empowerment. 

My rate for a 50-minute session is £70. I offer in-person and online therapy. My offices are Earls Ct and Chiswick. Contact me for a free initial consultation to discuss your difficulties, my approach, and answer any questions.  

Client experiences: 

"I felt totally at ease in Patrick's presence. He listened intently, repeated back what I had voiced. I found it easy to be vulnerable with him." -P

"Patrick was knowledgable enough to assess my needs and able to guide me on the right path" -B

"Patrick created a safe space, allowing me to explore parts of myself that I had suppressed for years." -M