Amber Poulastides

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Psychotherapists and Counsellors

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

Amber finds that each client has their own needs, their own way of looking at their lives and their individual ways of growing. Her aim is to help clients along their unique path to self-actualisation. In order to facilitate this, Amber's room is a confidential, warm and non-judgemental environment for clients to use as they like. She is experienced in working with people struggling with depression, anxiety, stress, bereavement, identity, sexual orientation, relationship issues and big life-changes.

Sexual identity:

Other

Gender identity: Female

Gender history: As assigned at birth

Non-monogamy: Yes

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: No

Personal pronouns: She/her

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Experience and approach:

Often people will find coping mechanisms that help us survive in difficult situations, especially during childhood, when we are fairly helpless. These coping mechanisms serve us well until...well, until they don't anymore. But, as creatures of habit, these coping mechanisms don't just go away. We use them over and over, despite the better reactions and more productive coping mechanisms now available to us. Having someone to explore our current needs and options with is sometimes all it takes to become more of the person you want to be.

Knowing yourself better is beneficial for you and everyone in your life. Where are your feelings coming from? Are they really in response to your current situation, or are they carrying over from a past event? Why do they seem so unbearable? Is there a way to make it stop?

With a psychotherapist, some of the work you may do will be in the unconscious. What are your unconscious expectations about your relationships? Which thoughts or feelings about yourself are actually yours and which did you learn from your parents or friends? Who would you be if you could separate from everything your family, culture, religion, and world has dictated for you? Without pressure, overt or subtle, what would make you happy? And why would it make you happy?

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