Sara Astle

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This may be the first step you have taken seeking support to resolve any difficulties you may be experiencing, but I hope coming onto this website is beginning to guide you to what help is available and what may work for you. 

I believe passionately in the power of exploring our problems through talking therapy.  I have seen first hand how it can bring about insight, healing and life changes for ourselves.  

To work effectively, I offer to build, with you, a professional, empathic and confidential relationship in order for you to process your pain, recognise what is causing it, and support you to move into new patterns of behaviour and ways of living. 

I am an Integrative therapist, which means that I use a variety of psychological approaches in my work.  It also means the work is attuned individually to each client. 

My training and practice is grounded in Psychodynamic psychology, which looks at how the impact of our history and past events can play out in our present day living. This can be completely out of our awareness, and we may have coped by suppressing feelings about these events and developing behaviours that are no longer helpful. 

I also work using training in Attachment theory, Internal Family Systems and Compassion Focussed Therapy.  This can help us see past what is in our unconscious, reframe our understanding of the different parts or personalities that we have become, and release and shift us to move forward into new patterns of behaviour. 

I work relationally, which means I put the therapeutic relationship between myself and the client at the very centre of our work together. I work to build a professional, warm, open and trusting relationship with clients.  It is the relationship we build together that is at the heart of our work.  It facilitates the confidence and trust to be able to do the work and to heal past relationship pain and deficits.

Global research, time and again, has concluded that the relationship between therapist and client is the most important part of therapy and the strongest indicator of the best outcomes of therapeutic work.  

Please contact me for a free initial consultation.  This can be online, or by telephone and we will talk through what has brought you to seek therapy.  This initial chat is aimed at working out your needs and whether you feel comfortable that my approach will suit you.  Its also an opportunity for me to gain an overview of what you are bringing to therapy, and how I feel I might be able to support you.  Please ask any questions you may have at this stage.  If you choose to proceed we will then agree details such as an times and costs of sessions.  

If you choose not to proceed, all data that you have given in this conversation will be deleted.