My name is Vic (she/they) and I will be your person-centred counsellor at The Sanctuary.
Accessing counselling for the first time, or returning to counselling after a break, can be a huge step. You may be looking for counselling because there’s something specific that you know that you’d like to work on, because there’s something going on for you but you’re not quite sure what it is, or because others have told you that you ‘really need to go to therapy’. Whatever the reason is that you’ve found yourself here, I am here to work with you without judgement to enable you to become the version of yourself that you want to be.
What Is Person-Centred Counselling?
There are lots of different kinds of therapy, and different therapists work in different ways. I have been trained in a therapeutic approach called
person-centred therapy. Put simply, this method of therapy believes that
you are the expert in you.
I believe that you know yourself best. I do not provide advice and I cannot ‘fix’ you; you are not broken. I will work with you to find solutions by using a range of techniques to draw the answers from you, so that you can make the changes in your life that you want to make at your own pace and in a way that best serves you.
I provide both short and long-term therapy, and we can discuss the planned duration of our work together during our first session. For longer-term work, we will also review this regularly throughout your counselling journey.