Emerson Bastos

I work in Islington, close to Highbury & Islington and Caledonian Rd stations. 

Monday to Friday from starting at 10am. Monday, Tuesdays and Thursdays the last appointment starts at 6.45pm. Wednesdays last appointment is at 5.30 Wednesdays and Fridays 3pm.

I see clients on weekly basis on an agreed day and time of the week. 

Counselling sessions are there to support you in the direction you want to go in life. To help you work through aspects of your life that are not working in the way you wish they were. These may be related to the way you relate to yourself, others, work, intimate relationship or any aspect of your life’s experience.

My main orientation is Gestalt Psychotherapy approach. This is very much focused on what you bring to the session and what is important to you. The work progresses in supporting you deepening and expanding your self awareness of what and how you are doing. Supporting your experiences as you experience them. When appropriate challenging ideas, concepts, ways of seeing and relate to yourself and others that you have identified are not working as well for you as you wish they were.

Additionally, I also, when appropriate, Family/Systemic constellation approach. This approach looks at aspects that affects us even though most of it is out of our awareness. The work is in bringing the unseen to the surface and work with this view to bring this into more harmonious and supportive ways.

My approach is holistic, integrative, supportive and non-judgemental. In the counselling sessions with me the focus is the Gestalt approach. If and when, there are indications of a systemic issue I would share this with you and you can decide to look at your present issue from this perspective or not.

If you wish to have an initial session or have further question feel free to email me: info@emersonbastos.co.uk

A course of counselling can be brief. This is when you have identified a specific issue that you want changed. Once you feel you have resolved this you bring the counselling sessions to a close. This process can be between six to twelve session depending on the issue.

Counselling sessions can also be open ended. When you want to look at a wider spectrum of yourself and of your experience of life. Sessions progress according to what is important to you and you are present with at that moment in time. The phenomenology of the process is in your actual experience of the moment. This may be related to yourself, your relationships or any aspects of your life. The looking, processing and integrating, is a resourcing and growthful experience.

Our first meeting is an opportunity for you to get to know me, ask question, share with me what you want from the sessions, what you want to work with.

If, after the first session you decide to continue we both sign a counselling contract. This is a standard practice. Should there be anything in the contract you are not sure of or don't agree we can look at this. 

The course of session is about you and what is important to you. The sessions are the place for you to bring what you want and explore not only what is happening that is not quite ok but to explore forward ways that work better for you.