Currently welcoming new clients
Hi, I’m Harriet. I’m an experienced trainee psychotherapist offering affordable, face-to-face psychotherapy from my therapy space in central Bristol.
I offer a grounded, consistent and compassionate space where you can bring your inner world, lived experiences and anything that may be troubling you. Therapy with me is a creative and collaborative process – never something that I am doing to you.
Together we can be curious about your experiences and begin to give meaning to sometimes hidden or uncomfortable feelings. This process of gentle uncovering, when held in a supportive therapeutic relationship, encourages deeper connection to ourselves, to others and the world we inhabit. I believe that when we are able to feel more deeply at home with ourselves, our potential for growth and internal safety grows too. Therapy can offer a space to feel more empowered, resilient, creative and experience more balance in your life and relationships.
The path we follow can be gentle, winding, challenging, unexpected and even joyful. I will be alongside you the whole way, following whatever pace feels right for you.
I have experience supporting individuals through a wide range of experiences, including:
Whatever your story holds, I am curious about how your experiences live in you and how we might work together to make sense of it.
I am particularly interested not only in your internal experience but in the way we heal within a wider social context, where models of systemic power and oppression operate. I am consciously committed to anti-oppressive practice within my therapy work.
My fee is currently £45 per hour. Sessions are held weekly and are 50mins long. I practice from Arches Therapy Rooms on Cheltenham Road, Bristol
I am in my fifth year of training at BCPC in Humanistic and Integrative psychotherapy. I am in regular clinical supervision with a highly experienced practitioner.
My Integrative training means I am able to draw upon the depth of many psychological theories to support our work together, rather than be limited to one approach. This reflects my commitment to meet you as you are – a complex, multifaceted individual. The Humanist grounding of my work and practice mean I hold the belief that all humans have the innate and unique capacity for self determination and growth.
Whilst theory supports my practice, I believe the therapeutic relationship to be the most important part of any healing process. It’s within an empathic, authentic connection that transformative growth can happen.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
I have worked as a trainee psychotherapist at the SWAN project, supporting clients in addiction recovery.
I draw upon nearly a decade of work as a specialist outreach worker for vulnerable adults experiencing complex trauma and facing multiple disadvantages. I have worked across a number of public and voluntary sector services including St Mungo's, Bristol Mental Health (NHS) and The Icelandic Red Cross and British Red Cross.
As a result I have extensive experience in working alongside individuals in active addiction and recovery, complex trauma (PTSD, C-PTSD), homelessness and housing insecurity, survival sex work, human trafficking and modern slavery, suicidal ideation, self harming behaviours, childhood trauma and sexual abuse, domestic abuse, chronic depression and anxiety.