Will Hodgson

I currently embrace my practice space through an online capacity as well as in-person.

I also am happy to adapt to the desired communicational preferences of the client should you wish and I welcome this conversation.

My working days are between Mon-Fri and my hours facilitated during morning, afternoon and evening sessions.

At the heart of my practice is inclusivity. Inclusivity to all being something of an innate driving force at the helm of my intent behind training as a counsellor.

In other words inclusivity is something I fight and advocate for. The meaning of the word is something I care and actively embrace deeply. This is something represented throughout the DNA of my approach to not just the professional service of counselling and therapy but to my everyone in life.

With this expressed, my practice is open and inclusive to members of all societal demographics, cross-sectionalities, faith groups, religions, ethnic diversities, members of the LGBTQ+ community and to people of all disabilities, both mental and physical.

I currently specialise in a therapeutic modality called Pluralistic Person-Centered Counselling.

This means I am able to offer an extended version of Person-Centered therapy through the term Pluralism. This will enable us to explore therapy not just through the conventional method of verbal communication but through avenues focused upon creativity such as art therapy for which includes anything from clay therapy, emotion focused therapy, drawing and writing.

The term Pluralistic really brings life, option and variation to the work we can do with each other. Pluralism is fundamentally designed at tailoring the therapeutic process to you and what your needs would ultimately benefit from most. Sometimes talking might not penetrate the ground and so we are able to introduce creativity and play to the recipe as this helps to bring to life your process should you wish.

Being trained to specialise in Person-Centred counselling means purely my work is pillared by a non-judgemental empathy and unconditional positive regard blended by a soulful intention of guiding and aiding your journey to find your colour and light through verbal and creative communication.

I centre my work solely around honouring the focus and autonomy of what you ultimately desire, what you want, where you want to go, or what it is you want to make sense of and explore.

What feels essential to the facet of my role as your counsellor is ensuring that as I listen, I shall walk with, along side you, and by your every word, and felt feeling you share, a careful attentiveness in holding like a soulful Sheppard, the context of your journeys rhythm and direction. My intent is based upon encouraging and maintaining an optimal therapeutic climate for your process as so to ensure clarity through both your terrain of containment and safety.

During our first meeting we can use this space as a very warm exploratory session by way of introducing ourselves and by walking through any questions or queries you may have regarding the administrative aspects of our working relationship. I like to call this our foundational blueprint and we can use this time however long you feel necessary.

In affect, our first session will be used to really get to know each other, how I work, what I can offer and to better understand your preferences regarding how it is you like to work going forward.

We will use this time to explore how you would like to work, the things you are open to, the thereaputic approaches you connect with and may no connect with.

It will be a session in which we are able to understand how we can tailor the sessions we have together moving forward as a way to make counselling as optimal and progressive to your process as possible.