Values and beliefs that I hold dear

I place empathy and compassion at the heart of my work. I constantly ask myself: 'What is it like to be you (my client) right now?'. The question keeps me in a non-judgmental space and helps me to stay fully present when I'm working with you.

Empathy builds trust. When you experience this, I believe that you will hear my challenging you as supportive of the changes you want to make.

I am open to sharing my own experiences and struggles if this helps you to relate to me as a fellow human being. It is a part of my aspiration to be authentic and honest with you. I offer my skills and experience to you as a fellow traveller, striving for connection and wanting to create a world that feeds our spirit.

I place a high value on learning. I attend workshops for my own development and am open to feedback that help me enrich what I can offer you. I read widely and have a range of approaches and strategies to draw on. I take part in a peer-mentoring group which is a form of supervision and gives me different perspectives on what I do.

I aspire to be professional in all my dealings with you. This includes responding promptly to messages from you, treating information from you as confidential, being clear about what I can offer you and doing all I can to meet your needs.

To be available to you means taking care of myself. So I eat a healthy vegetarian diet based on organic produce from my garden, take part in a highly challenging class in Pilates and related body-work approaches three times a week, go on a daily dog walk and spend many hours in the garden at weekends. To 'switch off', I immerse myself in orchestral music (neighbours are far enough away to permit me to turn up the volume) or try to recapture the fruits of my musical training (way back in the 60s) by playing the piano. And recently, I fulfilled a long-held ambition to learn the basic skills of drawing.

One of my core beliefs is that each one of us takes pleasure in contributing to each other's lives and that we have a huge capacity for caring and for forgiving. It's these qualities that I commit myself to enhancing.

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