Ben Warden

My availability tends to be Monday to Thursday 8am-7pm, Friday 8-4 and weekend mornings 9-12.

Being honest, it's difficult to advertise myself. Technically, I'm a cognitive behavioural therapist and psychotherapist. Eight years down the line, I'm probably a combination of journalist and scientist; in the sense of unlocking what is essential within you, so you don't remain living at odds with yourself. Where the sense of safety and destination are never quite certain enough, thus elevating anxiety and depressive issues. Or where in the modern era this might moreover manifest in some kind of combination between ADHD and spiritual depression. A carousel of distraction that you might feel stuck on, perhaps.

My job isn't necessarily to help you off that carousel. Rather, it's to help open your eyes more to what's actually working and not in your life. And if that feels raw and vulnerable to acknowledge, I'll do my best to get the balance right in gathering that information.

The point being, it's not necessarily a case of whether you get on or off that carousel. But it's where you feel like you're making decisions with your eyes open. If it feels like you're paying a cost for something (and especially if that cost feels too much), you want to feel you're at least paying the right cost. The right relationship, with whom and what.

Being honest, it's difficult to advertise myself. Technically, I'm a cognitive behavioural therapist and psychotherapist. Eight years down the line, I'm probably a combination of journalist and scientist; in the sense of unlocking what is essential within you, so you don't remain living at odds with yourself. Where the sense of safety and destination are never quite certain enough, thus elevating anxiety and depressive issues. Or where in the modern era this might moreover manifest in some kind of combination between ADHD and spiritual depression. A carousel of distraction that you might feel stuck on, perhaps.

My job isn't necessarily to help you off that carousel. Rather, it's to help open your eyes more to what's actually working and not in your life. And if that feels raw and vulnerable to acknowledge, I'll do my best to get the balance right in gathering that information.

The point being, it's not necessarily a case of whether you get on or off that carousel. But it's where you feel like you're making decisions with your eyes open. If it feels like you're paying a cost for something (and especially if that cost feels too much), you want to feel you're at least paying the right cost. The right relationship, with whom and what.

From the first session we'll try to get to know the problem. Sometimes it's just a case of getting out what's on the top of your mind and the more we unravel the clearer certain themes will emerge. Often it's the case that a problem discussed well can be half the solution itself. It's not just changing your relationship with the thoughts, but moreover the emotions they give you. There's always a reason you've developed the relationship with certain emotions in the way you have. It's not necessarily a case of getting rid of them, but a realignment of your own philosophy around them, especially when you come to realise how you've been shaped by them for better and worse, can actually give you a lot of gold and greater fluidity in your life and thinking. Succinctly put, you'll worry less and have greater confidence.

It's not that things shouldn't matter to you. Yes you're gonna feel pain around certain situations still. But it's unlocking something essential within yourself when it comes to not just coping with this pain better, but actually to move with it more as a guiding light in your life, rather than finding yourself going round in circles trying to escape what only seems to feel dark about it.

Change is not transformation. It's expansion. There's no need to get rid of the old you or your old way of coping. You can't anyway and you might still need that part of you going forward. It's just that you don't want to be stuck with one way of coping, fundamentally. Because this will remain a vicious cycle. Instead, we're effectively trying to open out the other 20-30% of your own mind (the deeper part of your own unconscious which has always been recording), in order you can find confidence from living by the heart (gut) more. This will free your mind as you'll come to accept that you don't need to free yourself from your own mind. As in you'll feel easier with solving what matters to you from it, at your own pace, and the rest of the time you're able to observe emotion.

My availability tends to be Mondays to Thursdays 8am-7pm, Fridays 8am-4pm and weekend mornings 9am-12pm.

Being honest, it's difficult to advertise myself. Technically, I'm a cognitive behavioural therapist and psychotherapist. Eight years down the line, I'm probably a combination of journalist and scientist; in the sense of unlocking what is essential within you, so you don't remain living at odds with yourself. Where the sense of safety and destination are never quite certain enough, thus elevating anxiety and depressive issues. Or where in the modern era this might moreover manifest in some kind of combination between ADHD and spiritual depression. A carousel of distraction that you might feel stuck on, perhaps.

My job isn't necessarily to help you off that carousel. Rather, it's to help open your eyes more to what's actually working and not in your life. And if that feels raw and vulnerable to acknowledge, I'll do my best to get the balance right in gathering that information.

The point being, it's not necessarily a case of whether you get on or off that carousel. But it's where you feel like you're making decisions with your eyes open. If it feels like you're paying a cost for something (and especially if that cost feels too much), you want to feel you're at least paying the right cost. The right relationship, with whom and what.

Typically we'll start off with weekly sessions. This may go onto fortnightly, monthly or even quarterly. This can be a beginning to end process, but really it's something that should be seen as useful to your life, and has you feeling clearer and more confident accordingly.

Being honest, it's difficult to advertise myself. Technically, I'm a cognitive behavioural therapist and psychotherapist. Eight years down the line, I'm probably a combination of journalist and scientist; in the sense of unlocking what is essential within you, so you don't remain living at odds with yourself. Where the sense of safety and destination are never quite certain enough, thus elevating anxiety and depressive issues. Or where in the modern era this might moreover manifest in some kind of combination between ADHD and spiritual depression. A carousel of distraction that you might feel stuck on, perhaps.

My job isn't necessarily to help you off that carousel. Rather, it's to help open your eyes more to what's actually working and not in your life. And if that feels raw and vulnerable to acknowledge, I'll do my best to get the balance right in gathering that information.

The point being, it's not necessarily a case of whether you get on or off that carousel. But it's where you feel like you're making decisions with your eyes open. If it feels like you're paying a cost for something (and especially if that cost feels too much), you want to feel you're at least paying the right cost. The right relationship, with whom and what.