Have you ever found yourself wondering why certain things affect you more than you expect? Or why, despite your best intentions, you keep finding yourself in situations that leave you feeling frustrated, hurt or misunderstood?
Perhaps you’re struggling with anxiety, grief or loss, difficulties in your relationships, or a change in your life that you hadn’t anticipated. Maybe things have built up over time, or something has happened that has left you unsure of where to turn.
Whatever brings you here, you don’t have to have it all figured out before seeking counselling.
Individual Counselling
Sometimes life can feel overwhelming, and it isn’t always easy to understand why. You might be struggling with your confidence, finding it difficult to manage your emotions, or dealing with experiences that continue to affect you.
Perhaps you feel stuck, or you’re finding it difficult to move forward from something that’s happened. Counselling gives you the opportunity to talk about what’s troubling you and explore what feels important to you.
Couples Counselling
Relationships can become difficult when we feel unheard, misunderstood or disconnected. Couples counselling offers an opportunity for both of you to talk about what’s happening and explore the difficulties you’re experiencing together.
Clinical Supervision
As a Clinical Supervisor, I offer a warm, supportive space for counsellors to reflect on their client work, talk through challenges and explore new perspectives. Supervision is an opportunity to pause, think together about the therapeutic relationship, notice your own responses and deepen your understanding of the work you do.
My approach is collaborative, thoughtful and non-judgemental. Whether you are newly qualified or more experienced, you are welcome to bring questions, uncertainties and successes to our sessions. Together, we can support your confidence, self-awareness and effectiveness as a practitioner, while keeping your clients’ needs at the heart of the work.
About Loren
Hello and welcome to my website.
Reaching out for help, or finding someone impartial to listen to you, is probably one of the hardest and most courageous steps in this therapeutic journey.
A journey that can be enlightening as well as daunting in your quest to find out who you really are, what makes you tick and how to accept yourself for who you are today.
It can also leave you asking more questions.
With so many counsellors out there, how do you know if I’m the right therapist for you? What do I offer that others don’t?
I am an Integrative counseller, meaning I use several ways of working and I adapt each session in relation to what is being presented by you.
There are 3 types of therapy frameworks I use;
Person Centred; allows me to enter your world from your perspective and walk alongside you. Sometimes just having a safe, non-judgemental and confidential space to air off any worries that are troubling you, helps you to feel lighter by sharing the burden with me.
Maybe you feel mis-understood or have anxiety about who you really are? Feeling lost with no purpose in life? Or your thoughts are really jumbled and you struggle to express how you are feeling?
My job is to help you, un-jumble and point out any difficulties that might be causing you to feel ‘stuck’. Looking at unhealthy patterns of relating and, together, come up with coping mechanisms to ride the waves of life and the obstacles it can entail.
Gestalt is German for ‘whole’ and is all about the ‘here and now’. What’s going on between you and I? How are we being with each other? How are we speaking to each other?
What goes on between us, can mirror how you are with others in your day to day life. My job here is to help you express yourself both verbally and through your body language.
Our body and mind can get out of sync with each other and become fragmented. Our work together can involve getting to know all these separate parts of you and becoming in tune and then, albeit figuratively, knit yourself back together again.
Then there is Transactional Analysis (TA). As children we learn how to navigate our way through society, taught by our elders, parents, teachers and any other authoritative figures that look after us.
Sometimes these are healthy, other times not so much, causing us to react conflictingly in any given situation. We can become confused about why and how we behave the way we do and also why others react in the way they do to you. Through awareness gained in the therapeutic relationship with me, I can shed light on, thoughts, feelings and behaviours, game playing and ways of expressing and relating, that can in fact be hindering and holding you back from change. Becoming spontaneous with the ability to adapt yourself to change, through new skills and knowledge that you will learn about yourself.
Truth be told, we all offer something different because we are all unique in our own experiencing. With this understanding and my own awareness about my own thoughts, feelings and behaviour, enables me to respect that you are distinct to me and how you feel, think and behave in any given situation will be unique to you.
My job is to walk alongside you and learn from you. To give you the gift of how it feels to be truly heard.
I have experience of working with;
Anxiety
Addictions
Anger management
Attachment styles
Autism/Aspergers
Bereavement and Loss
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD
Bullying
Boarding School Syndrome
Couples
Depression
Dementia
Disabilities
Divorce
Discrimination
Emotional abuse
Loneliness
Low self-confidence
Low self-esteem
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Relationship problems
Sexuality
Self harm
Stress
Suicidal thoughts
Trauma
Work related stress
Reviews
"I don’t normally write reviews but I felt on this occasion I should. I’ve been going to see Loren for roughly 18 months. I decided that I needed to go and see a therapist as I was in a dark place with my mental health and I had been feeling suicidal. When I immediately met Loren I felt that I could instantly talk to her and trust her. I felt that Loren was very understanding and would listen to all my problems. Loren had the ability to calm me down, understand and guide me through a very difficult time in my life. Loren has been amazing and helped me put things into perspective. I am now in a totally different frame of mind and I would recommend anyone to go to Loren as she has transformed my life and I now feel that I have a future."
Dave T
"I loved my sessions with Loren. I was nervous and anxious when we began but, as our meetings progressed, I felt more relaxed and open to discussing my deeper feelings. I felt Loren helped me address the issues I face and that the experience left me more able to look forward, with tools for coping, as well as with more optimism and trust in my own abilities."
Contact Loren
Location
The Counselling Room
Alexandra House
Church Passage,
Banbury,
OXON
OX16 5JZ
