Tess Sterland - Angel (N1) & Online

I am an integrative transpersonal therapist. Depending on your individual preferences, I draw on these different therapeutic traditions in the following ways:

• psychodynamic (exploring how your childhood and relationship with caregivers provides a blueprint to behaviours, feelings or relationships in the present)
• person-centred (I will provide a non-judgemental, empathic space for you to explore your psyche, following your lead on what you’d like to focus on) 
• Gestalt/somatic (this involves incorporating how you are feeling in the present moment in a session, including how your body is responding or what our interactions are telling us about the content of our session)
• Transpersonal (our work can include exploration of things such as dreams, spirituality, myth, symbols, nature, ancestors and poetry. My training is rooted in a soulful approach, and I’m interested in the ways that the story of your life connects with the wider web of human stories. We might explore an impactful dream you recently had or I might invite you to draw after a visualisation, creating meaning from the images and symbols that your subconscious brings to our work.)
• Parts work/IFS (this approach assumes that we all have different parts of our psyche, and sometimes these parts are in conflict or respond unhelpfully to our current circumstances. Working in this way would involve me guiding you in visualisations to get to know this part better and communicate with it, hoping to shift the ways that it might dictate your behaviour.)

I am committed to actively creating a therapy space where clients can speak about all parts of their lived experience, including the ways that they have been marginalised or othered in our society. It’s important to me that my approach is open-minded, curious and non-defensive and I welcome conversations about how our differences or similarities may impact our work together.