Linda Bush

I am currently fully booked.  please contact me to join my waiting list. Next availability: End of February 2023

When I am available, I provide face to face sessions on Thursdays in our new therapy room, Wood Green, London N22 and online therapy other weekday mornings and evenings.

I have been trained as an integrative counsellor, initially from a person-centred and existential background, and more recently informed by trauma, internal family systems and psychodynamic approaches. However, as a therapist, I keep a broad curiosity about helpful ways of working. I will work with you to clarify your concern and explore the most appropriate solutions that suit your individual needs. 

I am open to supporting you however you have come to identify yourself. I am willing to explore the painful issues of oppression including race, gender, sexuality and ability and will provide a safe space for you to attend to difficult and/or complex experiences and feelings.

I like to review our work together regularly to ensure that your needs are being met in the best way for you. This also allows for a change in focus as your thoughts about your counselling and therapy needs shift over time.

I am happy to work on a focused short-term issue with you and equally willing to work with establishing more long-term changes. Where work is longer term, I offer the option to create a staggered ending, where we reduce to bi-weekly and then monthly for a limited period. This allows space for reflection as you practice and embed any changes you have decided on.

Human experience is complex and I am curious about how our early experiences affect us and inform the way we see ourselves. I attempt to provide a space safe enough to be able to talk about any difficulty, experience or concern with genuine care and acceptance.

I will respond to your individual needs with sensitivity, listening deeply enough to understand what your experience means to you; whether you want to find a way to manage your feelings or thoughts, or resolve an internal conflict, or to explore a traumatic experience, or gain a better understanding of yourself and your life. Whatever you decide to bring I will listen and respond with compassion, also supporting you develop this for yourself. 

I believe that therapeutic change and healing can happen in different ways, by changing our understanding, developing our awareness and our relationship with ourselves and our bodies, through giving voice to unexpressed feelings, and sometimes by changing our circumstances. I also recognise that change can feel scary and alarming. This is why I respect our protective mechanisms and will work with your current reality, supporting your resilience and empowering your choices about what, how and if to make changes. 

If, during our work you realise that you need something different, I am connected with some excellent therapists from diverse communities, so I can also make onward referrals.

I offer a free 15 minute telephone consultation to enable us to check if I am a 'good fit' for your needs. 

In the first session we will discuss a therapy plan including any potential risks and develop a shared agreement to manage these where this is necessary. When you enlist my help I will email you a document outlining what we have agreed, and send you the BACP ethical standards and my digital policy if arranging online therapy.

I aim to make this a gentle and human process, exploring both your resilience and vulnerabilities.