Christian McCabe

As a counsellor, who identifies as a gay male, I offer to stand alongside you, irrespective of your cultural background or whether you experience yourself for example as, binary, non-binary, queer, transgender or that you’re here reading this right now because you’re questioning your sense of identity, I’m offering you a safe and non-judgemental space in which either yourself as an individual or in a partnership, can explore the many felt experiences attached to:

• Your relationship with self and what that feels like right now.
• The fear of facing yourself, your identity - “Who am I and where do I belong?”. A curiosity too, that feels suffocated by a deep sense of shame.
• "How do I feel about my body?"
• Being in relationship, whether that’s with yourself, another or the world around you.
• The painful feelings of shame, rejection, the sadness around loss (what was or may have been) and the need to have control.
• A continual feeling of anxiousness.
• The many forms of the addictive personality – abusive relationships and co-dependency, drugs and alcohol, sex and pornography, exercise and work.
• Or the awareness that your emotions or feelings, which may have been long locked away, have now reached a point where you may feel as if being ‘eaten from the inside’ and it is now time to express, hear and feel these, find sense and resolve and set yourself free.

In a nutshell, these and other life crippling experiences that often leave you feeling you’ve no way out, have been my experience of what brings people into therapy.