Ray Wallace

I offer a safe, secure, non-judgemental, supportive environment for you to be yourself and helping you gain greater understanding of yourself, your relationships with others and the world in general. By reflecting and gaining greater understanding of for example confusing thoughts and emotions, allows you to grow in greater awareness and understanding of yourself. It also enables you to make more insightful choices about your life and those around you.

I offer you the space to work through any issues that are causing you pain and suffering and are burdensome. For example issues such as shame, guilt, a lack of belonging and hopelessness can be very debilitating and working through such matters, will allow you to free yourself from their grip and take your life firmly, yet gently, in both your hands and live it to the full.

Difficulties in a relationship can be very confusing and helping you to see and understand the various elements and responsibilities at play can have a real and lasting benefit to you in all your relating. Discussing and discovering feelings you have about yourself and other people, particularly family and those close to you, allows you to look deeper into your problems and worries, and deal with troublesome habits and a wide range of issues. Exploring thoughts and feelings in a non-judgemental way and in discovering and becoming more self-aware and self-accepting, can help you to heal, grow and feel much less burdened.

People come to therapy for a very wide range of issues. There are as many issues as there are people and every person’s experience of issues is as unique as themselves. In some instances it is simply to clarify matters so that you may take clear decisive action in your life. Counselling or Psychotherapy usually involves talking, but sometimes I use other methods as required – for example, art, music, movement, deep relaxation, breath work and meditation.

Typically, we will meet regularly, usually once a week, for a number of weeks and at the end, review progress and what might be the next best steps.

Often people ask the difference between Psychotherapy and Counselling. Perhaps one way of describing this is that Counselling operates at a conscious level often guiding the client(s) on practical matters. Psychotherapy looks a lot deeper looking at how one is in the world and the deeper influences that have impacted one’s life and shaped who they are today. And while a Psychotherapist can counsel, not all Counsellors can work at deeper levels. Psycho is derived from the Latin word Psyche meaning “Soul” and Therapy meaning “Healing”.

The first session is an introductory one, a chance to meet and for me to find out a bit about what it is that brought you to counselling and to see whether we both feel comfortable about working together. One of the most important things in therapy is the relationship between you, the Client and me, the Therapist. Research about what makes counselling work, says that this is the most important factor. Through building a relationship of trust between us, psychotherapy can help you to discover the reasons for negative feelings and to work out ways of dealing with them. The sessions provide a space for you to express difficult emotions in a safe, supportive environment.

"May all that is unforgiven in you,
Be released.

May your fears yield
Their deepest tranquilities.

May all that is unlived in you,
Blossom into the future,
Graced with love

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