Kristal Clark Psychotherapy Counselling Oakwood Leeds

About Me
I have been practising as a therapist since 1994 when I started working in a Mental Health Drop-In centre in London as a volunteer. I decided to train in therapy after spending 5 years teaching in London and having done cvarious other jobs. I was training in yoga at the time which I found to be a physical-based therapy and I wanted to branch out into understanding people's behaviour, thinking and actions, including understanding myself.


My Approach
which I have developed over the years, focusses on 'relational'issues i.e. how we relate to ourselves and others and how we have developed into the adult that we are.  This came out of reflecting on and receiving therapeutic feedback about my own life experiences, how I managed certain situations, how I got on, or didn't, with people and how I related, or didn't, to family. I believe we all have our unique personal story and I believe we have the capacity to change or tweak some aspects, if we want to.

I have found personal therapy invaluable in helping me to question myself with curiosity and to be more in charge of myself.  I think that therapy or long-term counslling works on different levels of the personality and it is not always obvious how it works or why it works.

The underpinning belief that I follow is that we are moulded, inevitably, by our family relationships and experiences while we grow up.  Psychological influences can be handed down from previous generations.  As we become adults, our learning from family stays with us whether it was a good learning or disappointing or abusive. As adults we have the opportunity to turn things round forourselves. This is where talking therapy or a yoga practice can help to liberate us more.

I believe that therapy and yoga are ways of attaining a greater sense of personal freedom. Through bodywork, emotional tensions are released and through expressing yourself in therapy emotionaltensions can be released which in turn can create clearer thinking.  The therapy space is confidential and is a place where you can be as free as you are able to be.


Appointments
I set up two Initial Appointments so that we can meet and you can present your difficulties. The First session takes place for one hour followed by a second appointment to continue the discussion. After that we will mutually decide whether to continue to meet either weekly or twice-weekly. i work during most work hours, last appointment of the day is around 5pm/5.30pm.

The First session is £60 and the ensuing sessions are £45 for 50 minutes.
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