Ingrid Vienings

Sharing your thoughts and feelings can feel like a relief and can help with reflection and self-awareness. I work collaboratively and am respectful of your pace and inner resources, offering a supportive and non-judgemental approach while appropriately challenging you. The aim is to help you to realise your full potential and to develop new strategies where old strategies are no longer helpful. Developing self-awareness is an important goal and can lead to spontaneity and the capacity for real and meaningful relationships.

My aim is to actively and empathically listen to what you have to say in order to help you to get in touch with, understand and express your thoughts and feelings about issues that cause you concern. I want to help you to explore probable sources of your concerns and to co-jointly develop strategies for managing these thoughts and feelings and their accompanying behavioural manifestations.

I work with teens, individuals and couples on an open-ended basis or for an agreed time period, with the aim of enabling you to enhance your life and to live it more fully. 

I spend some time finding out about you, your life up until this point and we gently look at what decisions may have been made when you were younger, as a survival technique, that leaves you in life patterns that repeat. As an adult those decisions may not be as helpful to you. Together we will aim to discover why you may have made those decisions and how may you look at making different decisions based on your own self-awareness.

Previous to seeing you I will ask you to complete an intake from that gives me some idea as to why you have chosen therapy and what you hope to achieve.