After completing my degree in Psychology, I had decided to seek a vocational career in psychotherapy. That was the easy part! I had considered various strains of psychotherapy and after considerable thought, I chose transpersonal psychotherapy. What is transpersonal psychotherapy? I hear you ask. The transpersonal journey of exploration is a life changing endeavour.
My counselling in Hertfordshire combines transpersonal, clinical and cognitive aspects of counselling. This integrative approach can be life changing. It certainly changed mine. For the better. It helps me to make sense of life’s challenges and my relationships with the people in it. Most importantly.
As an integrative counselling psychotherapist, the spine of my work is psychodynamics. I’m wedded to the notion that our sub conscious perspectives on life are predominately rooted in childhood experiences. Caregivers and peer groups that we have internalised. Over time, our lives become a multi layered experience filled with distractions that may take us away from who we truly are. That is, our authentic selves. The transpersonal perspective urges us to let go of everything that is keeping us back, even if it was something, we previously thought was worthwhile in its keeping. There needs to be a readiness to let go of things we don’t need in order to live a better, healthier life.
My counselling in Hertfordshire offers you the opportunity to explore areas of yourself and your life that may need a fresh perspective. It can help you to turn your impartial eye inwards onto yourself if you have been grappling with difficult life decisions that involves a fresh start or a new way of doing things. The transpersonal approach is an umbrella term for forms of therapy which empathise the importance of the spirituality of individuals. I refer to this as an existential crossroads. Many of my clients present to me as being very unhappy with their lives in general. They are unable to fathom why they have a general sense of discord in their lives and cannot easily work out the reasons why.
My transpersonal approach coupled with my psychology background and cognitive, psychodynamic and person-centred expertise offers a holistic form of therapy which addresses your whole being. Life’s challenges and society’s propensity for productivity and consumerism also acts as an added distraction that takes us away from who we truly are. I offer a safe, non-judgemental space in which you are offered the opportunity to take a break and just consider who you truly are without having to consider other people and facets of life.
Transpersonal psychology is rich and multi-layered. It offers another perspective on life. If you feel ‘stuck’ in your life and are seeking another way of approaching life’s never-ending twist and turns, please reach out today and contact me at Penny Glazebrook Counselling and Psychotherapy
