Gentle Therapy – Liane Smith
About the Therapist
Hello, my name is Liane Smith and I am a qualified person-centred therapist based in North London, currently working on Upper Street between Angel and Highbury & Islington stations. I am a softly-spoken Scottish white non-disabled trans woman who has lived and worked in London for many years.
My positive and inclusive practice, called Gentle Therapy, specifically orients to the Gender, Sex/Sexuality, Relationship Diversity (GSRD) communities, which embraces the breadth of gender, sex and relationship identities and lifestyles that lie outside the predominant norm, including the LGBTQIA+ community of which I am part.
My therapy is about relating with you acceptingly and warmly, seeing and hearing you, and understanding your difficulties, which might be impacting your physical and psychological health and wellbeing. You can explore through open-ended sessions your personal issues and experiences gently and safely and non-judgementally, in the direction and at the tempo that you.
As a volunteer counsellor at London Friend, London’s longest-established LGBTQIA+ charity, I have experience of working with London’s diverse and multicultural LGBTQIA+ community
- Ace | Asexual
- Kink - BDSM
- Lesbian
- Other
- Queer
- Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP).
- Registration No. 412662
- https://www.bacp.co.uk/search/Register
- BSc (First Class Honours) in Person-Centred Pluralistic Counselling (Advanced Practitioner) from Metanoia Institute/Middlesex University London.
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Person-Centred therapy is a relational, non-judgemental opportunity to reflect on and explore your experiences, inner thoughts, feelings, and emotions and the meaning these have for you. As well as talking about your present troubles and the pressures you face, we might also talk about your past experiences and challenges, and your future hopes in life.
The Person-Centred approach sees you as the expert on your unique life and experiences. I hold no aims or objectives for you; I accept who you are unconditionally with warmth, and listen and try to accurately understand your reality and feelings from your point of view.
We share the therapy space and co-create our dialogue at your speed and direction to help deeper reflection and inner exploration of experiences, feelings and emotions. It is your story and I will trust and respect the way you want to share it.
We live with and must find our way through personal and societal pressures, conditions, and constraints, and structural power imbalances. Normative society often magnifies these for GSRD and LGBTQIA+ people, negatively impacting resilience. Therapy can help your self-awareness, creative possibilities, and choices to decide in which direction to move in your life.
I aim to ensure that multicultural sensitivity, awareness of systemic racism, gendered power imbalances and sexual abuse, and neurodiversity also inform my practice.
- Ace | Asexual
- BDSM | Kink
- Bi- | Pansexual
- Consensual non-monogamy
- Cross-dresser
- Gay
- Intersex
- Lesbian
- Non-binary | Genderqueer
- Queer
- Questioning
- Survivors of attempted conversion therapy
- Trans
- One to one
- No adaptation
- Adults
- Seniors (60+)
- Online
£75 per weekly session of 50 minutes.
Initial free telephone call of 15 minutes to explore if we could work together.
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