Stella Sparrow

My name is Stella Jane.  The approach I take to counselling is aimed at enabling you to understand how recent or long-standing conflicts and difficulties in your relationships with others have an impact on your life today.  We can work together so that you can become more self-aware and more able to understand how some patterns of behaviour, in yourself and others around you, may have a negative impact on your life.

The origins of the issues and difficulties you have today may lie in early childhood.  They may be inherited or learned patterns of behaviour that work against you rather than help.  By talking through these experiences, you will be better able to understand how they may be impacting on your life today, especially  in terms of your relationships with others, including friends, family or those you work with.  Through this process, you may start to make positive changes to the way you think and feel about things.

I am a fully qualified psychodynamic psychotherapist and base my practice on psychoanalytic principles.  This means I will seek to fully understand your present issues and how your past experiences have influenced your present situation.  

I am able to give you a confidential space to be listened to, perhaps for the first time and in an environment that is completely free of any judgement by anyone.  I am able to help build trust between us, allowing for a fruitful therapeutic relationship between us to develop.

Our initial session may take about 90 minutes, and can be completed face-to-face, by Zoom or telephone.  It is an opportunity for you to explain the issues you are facing that have prompted your interest in seeking counselling.  It will be helpful to understand something of your background, childhood experiences, family situation and other important relationships.  We can then agree whether or not further sessions will be helpful to you, or a referral to another type of service.  Online or telephone sessions may be particularly helpful to those who would prefer to discuss things from their own environment.