Paul Henry

Understanding your life more clearly and in a more balanced way can have a powerful, healing effect.

I am experienced in short-term solution-focussed counselling and open-ended long term therapy. I work with generalised anxiety, stress and panic disorders, performance anxiety and creative block. I have extensive experience with alcohol, drug, gambling and internet addictions, and with those experiencing the everyday difficulties of life in an increasingly mad world.

I have thirty years experience working within the creative industries and twenty five years of working with addictions.

My clients range widely from teenagers suffering the burden of parental expectations to older clients finding difficulty in accepting life changes, and in search of more meaning and peace in their life.

I offer secure, non-judgemental and completely confidential support to explore your issues.

Psychosynthesis is a psycho-spiritual practice that encompasses what is happening in the mind, the emotions and the body along with the client's spiritual condition.  A part of psychosynthesis practice is to hold clients 'bifocally', that is to say being mindful of what the client is presenting alongside what positive element is trying to emerge; new or stronger boundaries, acceptance, taking action, undergoing change, moving through a grieving process or just making sense of what has happened in life.

I facilitate this using a range of techniques including observation and enquiry, meditations, visualisations and mindfulness exercises that allow the client to explore themselves at their own pace and without engaging the defences that may otherwise prevent deeper understanding.

We will usually begin with a review of presenting issues and an in-depth assessment, gathering relevant information about current circumstances, life experiences good and bad, and an appraisal of close family members, and this will often determine the direction of the work going forward.

Understanding your life more clearly and in a more balanced way can have a powerful, healing effect.

I am experienced in short-term solution-focussed counselling and open-ended long term therapy. I work with generalised anxiety, stress and panic disorders, performance anxiety and creative block. I have extensive experience with alcohol, drug, gambling and internet addictions, and with those experiencing the everyday difficulties of life in an increasingly mad world.

I have thirty years experience working within the creative industries and twenty years of working with addictions.

My clients range widely from adolescents suffering the burden of parental expectations to older clients finding difficulty in accepting life changes, and in search of more meaning and peace in their life.

My service is supportive, secure, non-judgemental and completely confidential.

In my practice, I work with the psychosynthesis, transpersonal model.  In addition to talking therapy, I include guided meditation and visualisation, transpersonal exercises, subpersonalities, inner child exploration, the internal family system, family constellation and gestalt chair work.

The initial session we will discuss your reasons for wanting therapy and complete an assessment which will provide a background for the work we do together.  We will also decide whether to have a set number of sessions or work open-ended.  You will also have the opportunity to bring any questions or concerns you have.

I am qualifies in transpersonal supervision. I trained with Alkimia Training, a UKCP-approved training organisation.

In supervision I am holding the wellbeing of the therapist as well as the client.  Field mapping forms a fundamental part of the consultative work and the role of shame as a mediating force in the work.

The Alkimia approach to supervision is to field map both the supervisee's and their client’s process, and to facilitate in a relational and dynamic way.  The aim is for the supervisee to develop a clearer understanding of the psyche and relational dynamics in a way that inspires and re-invigorates their work, with effective skills to utilise in working with clients.