At Aligned Mindset Therapy, I offer a compassionate, integrative approach to Psychotherapy and Counselling-designed to support you through anxiety, trauma, and life’s emotional challenges. Whether you're navigating a current crisis or seeking to heal long-standing patterns, I provide a safe and supportive space to help you reconnect with your inner strength, make sense of your experiences, and move forward with greater clarity and confidence.

 

Understanding the Difference: Counselling vs. Psychotherapy

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Although often used interchangeably, counselling and psychotherapy offer different levels of depth and focus.

 

Understanding these distinctions can help you choose the type of support that best meets your needs—or benefit from an integrated approach that evolves with you.

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Counselling: Support for the Here and Now

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Counselling offers short- to medium-term support focused on present-day concerns. It creates a safe, non-judgemental space where you can explore the challenges affecting your everyday life—such as stress, low mood, anxiety, relationship difficulties, or navigating life transitions.

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Through counselling, we’ll work together to help you:

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• Understand your thoughts, emotions, and behavioural patterns

• Develop healthy coping strategies to reduce distress

• Gain clarity and perspective to make empowered decisions

• Feel heard, validated, and supported in a safe space​

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Counselling is ideal if you're facing a difficult period and need immediate emotional support, practical tools, and a grounded space to process what's going on.

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Psychotherapy: Deep Exploration and Lasting Change

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Psychotherapy offers a more in-depth, longer-term process. It supports you in uncovering the roots of emotional difficulties and transforming unconscious patterns that may have been shaping your experience for years. This approach is particularly helpful for recurring issues, relational patterns, or healing from trauma and early attachment wounds.

 

Through psychotherapy, we’ll:

• Explore how past experiences may still be influencing your present

• Bring awareness to unconscious beliefs and survival strategies that no longer serve you

• Heal unresolved trauma and attachment disruptions

• Build deeper self-understanding and emotional resilience

 

This type of work is often transformational—allowing you not only to manage symptoms but to fundamentally shift how you relate to yourself, others, and life.

 

Why Combine Counselling and Psychotherapy?

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A Flexible, Evolving Approach- Tailored to You

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At Aligned Mindset Therapy, I integrate both counselling and psychotherapy to offer a flexible, responsive, and client-centred approach. Rather than fitting you into a fixed framework, I shape our work around your unique needs, goals, and emotional readiness—allowing the process to grow with you over time.

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You might start with counselling to address something specific—like anxiety, burnout, or a difficult life event—and as our work deepens and trust builds, we may naturally move into psychotherapeutic exploration of the patterns, beliefs, or past experiences that underlie those struggles.

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This integrative way of working allows us to:

• Meet you where you are: We prioritise safety and stability if you're in crisis, and shift to deeper exploration when you're ready.

• Build emotional safety: Counselling techniques can help you feel resourced enough to engage with deeper emotional work safely.

• Create lasting transformation: Counselling can ease distress, but psychotherapy supports change at the root level—reducing the chance of the same issues resurfacing.

• Work holistically and flexibly: Life isn't linear, and neither is healing. We can move between reflection, action, support, and growth—based on what you need most in the moment.

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What This Means for You

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By combining counselling and psychotherapy, you receive a deeply personalised, evolving therapeutic experience-one that honours both your immediate needs and your long-term growth. This approach offers:

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• Immediate support for the challenges you’re facing right now

• The opportunity to explore and resolve deeper-rooted issues

• A collaborative process that adapts as your needs change

• A space not just to cope—but to grow, heal, and transform

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Whether you're seeking clarity, comfort, empowerment, or emotional healing, I’m here to walk alongside you at your pace- offering support that’s grounded, respectful, and attuned to your individual journey.

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I Can Support You With:

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I work with adults experiencing a wide range of emotional and psychological challenges, including:

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• Anxiety (e.g., generalised anxiety, panic attacks, social anxiety)

• Depression and low mood

• Trauma (including PTSD, complex trauma, and developmental trauma)

• Relationship difficulties (with partners, family, friends, or colleagues)

• Attachment wounds and insecure attachment styles

• Self-esteem and confidence issues

• Grief, bereavement, and loss

• Stress and burnout (including work-related pressures)

• Self-harm and suicidal thoughts

 

If you’re curious about whether therapy might be right for you, or if you’re ready to begin, I invite you to get in touch. Together, we’ll create a safe and empowering space for your healing, growth, and self-discovery.