Hello, and thanks for landing here. There's a fair amount of information that you can check out here on my site that may give you a flavour of what it might feel like to meet me for therapy. Hopefully it can start to help you decide whom to approach. If you're ready to make an appointment I'll offer you a time: I can usually see folks who enquire within a few days.
People come for therapy for all sorts of reasons, and in all sorts of states. And I meet all sorts of people in my consulting room. You don't have to be 'ill enough' or 'sane enough' or 'distressed enough' to make use of therapy: you just have to want to come and talk. Whilst it helps that I have worked with people who are bereaved, depressed, abused, directionless, stressed, divorced etc, each therapy is created afresh, tailor-made for you.
People come for therapy for all sorts of reasons, and in all sorts of states. And I meet all sorts of people in my consulting room. You don't have to be 'ill enough' or 'sane enough' or 'distressed enough' to make use of therapy: you just have to want to come and talk. Whilst it helps that I have worked with people who are bereaved, depressed, abused, directionless, stressed, divorced etc, each therapy is created afresh, tailor-made for you.
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Anger is not bad or good; it's part of being human: it just is. I need my anger, so I know someone did something that I may need to address. I need to know when I am powerless to act (so that I don't obsess about the actions of the other person or people.) Anger is not the same as violent or uncontrolled expression of rage.
If you come to have therapy or counselling, with me, even just one session, I have to balance two things: on the one hand, I have to make sure I don't clutter the space i.e. But there's another side to this coin: I will also talk! I won't just sit there nodding, saying 'uhuh.hmmm. I see what you mean'.
I have been going to 'Here and Now' groups for 27 years and continue to be enthusiastic about how the situation provides me with the opportunity to be surprised, to get to know myself, to relate instead of switching off, and to connect with myself and others in unexpected ways. Maybe you'll decide to join me in a group meeting soon.
The phone rang. I was once round at a friend's house in Leeds when the phone rang. His girlfriend, Sally, picked up the receiver (it was 1988, hence 'receiver'!), and it was one of her female friends: they proceeded to have a conversation during which they told each other how they were, how they were feeling about things.
Here's the first bit. My most memorable moment with Vanessa occurred when I was feeling particularly frustrated with this whole 'therapy' process. I had a gnawing feeling of dissatisfaction but didn't have any words to put to it. Having been brought up to be a nice well-behaved boy, I was often too polite to express any resentment about anything, but on this occasion I managed to be more expressive than usual.
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Dave H.
Dec 09, 2019
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