Jude Galloway

My practice brings together the therapeutic experience and training I have undertaken with that of my professions as an artist and gardener – all are fieldwork of a type, all require space, all require responsiveness, attentiveness, commitment and cultivation.

The person, as much as any garden, is an ecology and a landscape, and as much as any artwork, the person is created in relation to others. Practising as an artist and gardener has taught me a great deal about presence and patience. It has also taught me about the nature of transformation, of the gains and the losses that can come with it, and the deep connection between the two.

The invitation of the therapeutic relationship is that of entering into a different kind of conversation, a conversation with a quality that maps the topography of a life, a conversation that holds respect, open curiosity and non-judgment. The therapeutic relationship offers a place to notice and to help connect with the more unconscious ways in which we manage our emotional distress and anxieties. In time it may be possible to make real contact with these more distressed and hidden parts of ourselves, bring greater understanding and attunement, enable transformation to naturally unfold and a deeper resilience to occur and a more abiding sense of self to emerge.