Simon Turnbull/Kuladitya
Integrative Psychosynthesis Counselling
My training is in Integrative Psychosynthesis Counselling. Psychosynthesis helps us to explore the different aspects of our personality and find ways to bring them together in a more harmonious whole.
Therapy is a chance to really be heard, to tell, or maybe re-tell, your life's experiences in a way that can gradually allow them to make more sense, and to be transformed by conscious acceptance. This will often involve re-connecting with the deeper unconscious aspects of ourselves that have been buried along the way, as we have grown up and learnt to live life.
Often our deeper experiences are communicated more fully through images - so in psychosynthesis counselling we can explore dreams, images and the myths that inform our lives, bringing deeper understanding and meaning to our experience, and helping to make sense of the events our emotional history.
Counselling can provide a safe place in which to tell our story, to explore the things that we are finding difficult at the moment, and to have the experience of really being heard by someone else.
Being heard with a compassionate understanding is one of the most healing elements in counselling and therapy, and in itself can allow us to explore the more painful aspects of our lives, and find ways of being more at peace with ourselves, living more creatively and consciously, and freeing ourselves from the unhelpful emotional patterns that hold us back in our lives.
Sometimes the unconscious expresses itself more fully through dreams, images and stories, so psychosynthesis pays great attention to these often neglected aspects of the psyche.
Through this depth exploration, this soul journey, we can not only heal our deepest wounding, but can come into contact with hidden sources of wisdom and strength that can transform all aspects of our life and relationships.
Counselling and therapy can help with a wide variety of emotional and psychological difficulties; anxiety and depression, addictive behaviour of all types, bereavement, relationship difficulties, managing changes in your life such as divorce or job loss, and issues of meaning and direction which are often faced in mid life or as we get older.
Of course what you are experiencing might not fit easily into any of these categories, so if you want to find out whether seeing me might be helpful for you, you are welcome to give me a call to have a chat about it.
Counselling and therapy can helpful in finding a way out of painful states such as depression and anxiety, transforming stuck and unhelpful patterns of behaviour, coming to terms with loss, and healing the traumas of our personal history, helping us grow and fulfil our potential as human beings, and finding an understanding of our soul's journey in this life.
One way of seeing life is as a process of individuation, of becoming more and more fully ourselves, while at the same time making deeper contact with those vast reserves of unconscious potential which lie buried within us.
Therapy can be a way of helping you o fulfil your potential as a human being, through transforming the wounding and confusion of personal history, changing the relationship you have with yourself and others, and freeing yourself from limiting self views and emotional patterning.
I believe that, given the right conditions, we can all lead creative nourishing lives, and I am committed to therapy as a transformative dialogue; a dialogue that includes our conscious and unconscious experience, and leads to a journey of self-discovery and emotional renewal.
I have a BACP Accredited Diploma in Integrative Psychosynthesis Counselling, and have been practising as a counsellor for seven years.
I’m a member of BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists), and I adhere to their code of ethics.
I am currently in the middle of a further two year training to become qualified as a psychotherapist.
I have been a practising Buddhist for over twenty years – my Buddhist name is Kuladitya (pronounced Koo-la-ditya).