Our Approach

Prospective clients often want to know ‘what will happen’ when they work with us, whether through the process of collaborative divorce or in other family consultancy settings. While we have no wish to be evasive or mysterious, this is an impossible question to answer in specific detail, quite simply because our practice is client-centred. This means we take the opposite of a ‘one size fits all’ approach. Our starting point in working with you is you, not any preconceptions we might have about you based on anyone else we might have worked with. We believe that all people flourish best when they are treated as individuals and shown respect for the beliefs, feelings and attitudes that make them individual. We are not interested in putting you into a mould or trying to make you into someone that you’re not. Hence the difficulty in predicting ‘what will happen.’ It so much depends on who you are and what you need.

However, if you have previous experience of counselling or psychotherapy, mediation or coaching, at different times you’re likely to be reminded of these when working with us. Our approach draws on a range of disciplines, all of which we believe are effective in different ways in raising awareness, freeing repressed emotion, creating motivation and challenging flawed or unhelpful styles of communicating. What they all have in common is a focus on empathic listening, and this alone can be a great relief for clients suffering relationship trauma, who often come to us feeling disregarded and misunderstood.

It’s very likely that you will have come to work with us because the perspective through which you’re viewing your current situation is causing conflict or distress, or just feels stuck. A measure of the success of our work together could be the extent to which you feel your perspective shift or expand such that you can enter the next phase of your life with renewed energy and vision.