Oskars Grins

Only with knowing yourself as you are and the root of your distress can you make positive changes. All of us have the capacity for personal growth, and therapy can be the space to facilitate this process. As a therapist, I embody and offer such conditions where you can bring all of yourself to our sessions and develop understanding through curiosity. I am someone who listens to your story, your history, and everything you have done or gone through. I facilitate the experience of therapeutic presence. This is deep empathic listening, non-judgmental acceptance, and genuineness. Together, we explore whatever seems most important in answering this question: How will I know that therapy will have made a difference for me? Being valued as a person without the fear of judgement, in a therapeutic environment, can help you see who you are fully and boldly. This reconnection with the core of your unfiltered and authentic-self can be nurtured through your self-actualising tendency and kindle a personality change which is accurate to, and honours, your ideal-self. This is a talking therapy, not necessarily a prescriptive one in which I teach you specific techniques. I do not subscribe to the medical model of treating symptoms of distress or over-diagnosing. Such an approach is often lacking in addressing core issues. Person-centred psychotherapy is based on understanding and experiencing you as a whole person, not a collection of symptoms in need of reduction. There are many approaches to therapy and many more practitioners to endeavour this process with. There is no right way to start therapy if you’ve never gone through it before. It can also be difficult jumping back into therapy if you’ve taken a break or have had a negative experience in the past. If, however, you think that we might work well together, get in touch and we’ll go from there. How we approach therapy will be up to us and the long-term goals you bring to the sessions. Perhaps setting such goals and finding a semblance of purpose or direction is why you come to therapy in the first place. Whatever the case, I aim to facilitate as much of this process as possible. As a person-centred practitioner, my approach has always been that of providing an open yet confidential space for you to talk with an experienced professional in order to explore your thoughts, feelings, and behaviours for the purpose of understanding yourself and others. From such understanding comes the process of change.