Andrew Bache

Currently I have availability Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Thursday afternoon from 1 pm.

I am a qualified Psyschosynthesis counsellor and am currently in training for Psychotherapeutic and Psychotherapy diplomas at the Institute of Psychosynthesis, London.  Psychosynthesis is a transpersonal psychology.  This means holding a spiritual context is important in developing the work.

I offer a safe space at my practice in Kingston upon Thames for you to explore issues that impact your well being and daily life.

I work in person from my practice in Kingston upon Thames.  Sessions are 1 hour long.  After an initial interview, I ask for a minimum commitment of 6 weeks to establish the relationship and understand your current issue.  I work with both short term and long term clients.  With long term clients frequent reviews are important to evaluate work and maintain focus.

Much of my work has focussed on grief.  Processing grief for lost loved ones and also grief for missed opportunities.  Giving space in a empthic and non-judgemental context is an important step in enabling clients to connect to and process their feelings of grief.  

With long term clients work often is focussed on ingrained and hard to break behaviour patterns (maintaining cycles) that are established in early life and now limit possibilities for growth and development.  Bringing consciousness to these maintaining cycles and why/how they arose is often the first step in empowering clients to step out of them and into new opportunities.

Although my work has focussed on grief and maintaining cycles, I am open to working with whatever issues clients feel they need to bring to therapy.

My first session, the initial interview, is offerred at half price.  This session is not a therapy session but rather an exploration, allowing us both to get to know each other.  During this session we will explore your background and why you think counselling or therapy might be helpful at this time.  You will have the opportunity to ask me questions and address any concerns or worries you might have.