Duncan Cameron

I would work with you, my potential client, to create a safe space in which you, knowing far more about yourself than I can ever hope to know, can come to an understanding and acceptance of yourself and move forward in life.

I am a Humanistic Counsellor.  If you are aware of therapy modalities, I integrate the Person Centred Approach, Gestalt and Transactional Analysis modalities.  If you have no knowledge of these terms, I repeat that my role is to work with you to create the conditions in which you come to know yourself more fully.  This, I believe, is the basis from which therapeutic change can occur.

 

I work principally as a volunteer counsellor with a charity service in the London Borough of Bromley but also have a small private client practice.  I am happy to work online or in person to suit your preference.  Should we decide that we can work together, I offer sufficiently long-term counselling to meet your needs.  This would normally be on the basis of one session a week.

I find the following description of therapeutic practice useful.  (They are not my original words but they express beautifully what I would want to be in my work with you should we choose to work together.)

You and I
We meet as strangers,
each carrying a mystery with us.

I cannot say who you are.
I may never know you completely.
But I trust that you are a person in your own right,
possessed of a beauty and value that are
the earth’s richest treasures.

So I make this promise to you:
I will impose no identities upon you,
but will invite you to become yourself
without shame or fear.

I will hold open a space for you in the world and
support your right to fill it with authentic vocation
and purpose.

For as long as your search takes,
you have my loyalty

I am happy to offer an initial session free of charge.