As a counsellor, my aim is to aid you in finding your way back to yourself. To do this, I offer a Person-Centred approach at the core of my practice, providing a safe and non-judgmental space where empathy and unconditional positive regard are key to fostering personal growth. My integrative style allows me to draw from a range of therapeutic models, including Jungian therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Transactional Analysis, Creative and Art therapy, and Solution-Focused therapy. This blend ensures that the support you receive is tailored to your unique needs, promoting self-awareness, healing, and empowerment on your journey.
- Person-Centred Therapy is at the heart of my approach. It emphasises creating a warm, non-judgmental, and empathetic environment where you are seen, heard, and accepted without conditions. This foundation of unconditional positive regard encourages self-exploration and fosters personal growth, allowing you to navigate life’s challenges with greater clarity and self-compassion.
- Jungian Therapy emphasises the exploration of the unconscious and personal symbols, offering deep insight into one’s inner world. It can help uncover the root causes of emotional difficulties and foster a deeper sense of self-awareness and meaning in life.
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is focused on identifying and changing thought patterns and behaviours which clients identify as needing to change. By incorporating CBT, clients can develop practical strategies to manage anxiety, depression, and other challenges by shifting their thinking and behaviours in a structured way.
- Transactional Analysis (TA) looks at the interactions between people, helping clients understand their communication styles, relationship dynamics, and patterns of behaviour. This approach can help in navigating personal and professional relationships more effectively.
- Creative and Art Therapy allows for non-verbal expression of feelings and experiences, making it particularly useful for those who find it difficult to articulate emotions. It taps into creative processes to promote healing and self-exploration through artistic forms such as drawing, writing, and movement.
- Solution-Focused Therapy is future-oriented and goal-driven, helping clients focus on their strengths and resources to create positive changes. It empowers individuals to envision their preferred future and take small, achievable steps toward it.
By integrating these approaches, the therapy process becomes both dynamic and personalised, addressing immediate concerns while also fostering long-term and in-depth personal growth and transformation.
Click here to book a free initial consultation call or ask any questions you may have about counselling, or here to find more information on how I work as a Person-centred and Creative counsellor.
As soon as something is labelled ‘self-care’, I instantly dislike it.
Maybe it’s the demand avoidance in me, the second it’s prescribed, it feels like a task instead of a choice. And suddenly, I want to do the opposite.
This weekend I dismantled free pallets I’d sourced for a plot project on my allotment. It was scrappy, hands-on, a bit exhausting, and exactly what I needed.
Way more therapeutic and self-caring than any breathing exercise I’ve ever done.
Sometimes care looks like noise, dust, and splinters, not candles and calm.
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#counselling #personcentred #gardeningtherapy
2 days ago
🌀 Noema & Noesis: A Quiet Philosophy Behind Person-Centred Therapy 🌀
In phenomenology, noema refers to what we perceive; the content of our experience.
Noesis, on the other hand, is how we perceive; the act of consciousness itself.
In person-centred counselling, we honour both.
🌿 The Noema: Your story. The feelings, memories, thoughts you bring into the room.
🌿 The Noesis: Your experience of those things; uniquely yours, deeply felt, and always valid.
Carl Rogers believed that healing happens not through interpretation, but through presence. By staying with your noesis; how you see, feel, and make meaning, we create space for true understanding and growth.
🫶 You are the expert of your inner world. Therapy is the gentle unfolding of that world, with warmth, empathy, and unconditional positive regard.
📖 Curious minds: These terms come from Husserl’s phenomenology, the same philosophical roots that influenced person-centred therapy.
#PersonCentredTherapy #Phenomenology #NoemaNoesis #CarlRogers #LeighWrightCounselling #HumanisticTherapy #TherapyWithHeart #ConsciousHealing #CounsellingUK #MentalHealthMatters #SelfAwarenessJourney
1 week ago
🌿 When the Outside No Longer Holds the Answers 🌿
As a person-centred counsellor, I often sit with people who have spent years looking outward for their worth. Either through roles, relationships, success, or approval.
And gently, together, we begin to turn inward.
Not with force.
Not with judgment.
But with presence, with warmth, empathy, and unconditional positive regard.
In this space, something remarkable happens.
The need to chase external validation begins to soften.
A quiet inner voice, often buried beneath years of “shoulds” and “not enough,” starts to speak again.
This is the heart of person-centred work.
I don’t give answers.
I don’t diagnose your truth.
I walk beside you as you remember it for yourself.
Faith doesn’t need to be placed in something ‘out there.’ It can be found in your own capacity to feel, to choose, to grow.
You were never broken.
Just waiting to be heard.
#PersonCentredCounselling #TherapyReflections #CounsellorLife #InnerWisdom #CarlRogers #HumanisticTherapy #UnconditionalPositiveRegard #TrustTheProcess #HealingFromWithin #SelfCompassion #AuthenticConnection
2 weeks ago
Compassion Fatigue & Recovery – The Lantern 🏮
As helpers, we often hold the lantern for others, yet without tending to our own flame, the light dims.
Signs of Compassion Fatigue:
🕯️ Feeling like your inner light is flickering or fading.
🔄 Losing sight of your values or questioning your purpose.
⚔️ Struggling with burnout from fighting injustice or advocating for change.
📖 A sense of emotional or spiritual exhaustion, like reading the same page over and over.
Reigniting Your Inner Light:
🔮 Pause & Reflect – Like the great thinkers, take time for deep self-inquiry and rest. Your wisdom grows in stillness.
🌀 Balance Your Energy – Feminist theory teaches us that care work is undervalued, your self-care is radical, necessary, and non-negotiable.
💬 Seek Connection – Dialogue with those who inspire you, whether through spiritual practice, supportive communities, or trusted mentors.
🔥 Rekindle Your Passion – Return to what fuels you, whether it’s activism, creativity, or moments of sacred solitude.
💡 Take time to tend to your own light, so you can continue illuminating the path for others.
#CompassionFatigue #TherapistLife #MentalHealthAwareness #BurnoutRecovery #EmotionalWellbeing #RadicalSelfCare
#HealingJourney
#HolisticHealing
2 weeks ago
🌿 Repotting for Growth: The Power of Pausing 🌿
Ever noticed how a plant thrives after being repotted? At first, it might droop, its roots adjusting to the fresh soil, the extra space. But given time, it stretches, strengthens, and grows in ways it never could in its cramped pot.
We’re not so different. Growth, whether emotional, mental, or personal, takes energy. It’s exciting but also exhausting. Just like a plant needs time to settle after being moved, we need moments of stillness, rest, and care when we’re in a period of change.
Taking a break doesn’t mean we’re failing. It means we’re making space. It means we’re allowing our roots to expand, to breathe, to find new stability before we keep reaching higher.
🌱 If you’re in a season of growth, don’t forget to pause. Rest isn’t stopping, it’s preparing.
#GrowthTakesTime #SelfCare #RepottingYourself #MentalHealthMatters #TherapyTalk
2 weeks ago
Today I'd like to know, what's on your "To Be" list?
We spend so much time thinking about all the things we need to DO within a day; whether work related tasks, seeing family and friends, activities or chores.
But how many of us take time to think about what or who we want to BE?
So, what's on your "To Be" list today?
#counselling #counsellor #therapy #supervisor #supervision #mindful
3 months ago
