Jonah Woodley

I am available most evenings after 17:30 from Monday to Thursday. I have more availability on Fridays after 12.00 and plenty of free spaces on Saturdays.

My name is Jonah, nice to meet you!

My practice is called Shades of Rose Counselling & Psychotherapy and I was inspired to pursue a career in mental health support by my own life-changing connections with professionals across my life and my long-standing interest in emotions, experiences, and how we as humans engage (or don't engage) with them.

As someone searching for a counsellor, I hope it is useful for you to know that I have known hardship, distress, and hopelessness. However, I have also known recovery, healing, and growth. I have had extensive personal therapy over the years: many different kinds with different people and as a result I know that counselling can work one way or another. I know this beyond my training and the research; I know it through personal lived experience, and that is why I hope to become part of that journey for you.

Counselling, from my perspective, is all about us working collaboratively to show your challenges (whatever they may be) curiosity and care. 

In our sessions, you are the professional on you. I am not there to judge, label or diagnose you, rather to create a space for every part of you to be seen, acknowledged and cared for so that we can explore the roots of your current challenges and pursue long-lasting shifts in how you can see yourself, see others, see the world and live in your own body.

At a pace suitable for you, we will start with exploring what brings you to counselling in the present, what struggles you are facing and go forward from their to explore what might be informing those challenges. My hope is that through this exploration we can discover what might be reparative for you in the long run, whether it be new experiences, new perspectives, or even new life practices that could help carve a new path for you that feels softer and lighter than before. 

I think the more insight we have about ourselves, our feelings, and our experiences, the more control and choice we have in how we exist... and that insight can take a while to get... but that's why I'm here for as long as it takes! 

For more information please visit my website.

I remember getting started in therapy being the most daunting part, so let's see if I can answer some questions about what's next to put your mind at ease!

When you get in touch, however that may be, I will respond as soon as I can and hopefully we can arrange a free phone call that will last about 15 minutes. This call will be for us to get a feel for each other and figure out if we might be a good fit to work together. If we decide we are a good fit, we can arrange our first "official" session.

I will send you the meeting link and any documents you will need to look at prior to the session .

Our first session will start with going over those documents, just to ensure we are on the same page (no pun intended), and following that we will start at your pace to discuss what brings you to counselling.

And from there we will hopefully book in more sessions and be all set on our journey!

If you have any concerns or specific questions please feel free to get in touch.