Work with Josie
Alongside my books, reflective writing and therapeutic resources, I continue to offer Gestalt psychotherapy and reflective therapeutic support for adults who are wanting to understand themselves more deeply.
Many people who come to this work are not looking for a quick solution or a label. They may be living with anxiety, depression, emotional overwhelm, relationship difficulties, a harsh inner critic, or a long-standing sense that something has been missing.
Often, these experiences make more sense when we begin to understand the early relational environments that shaped us — including emotional neglect, complex trauma patterns, attachment injuries, and the adaptations we developed in order to manage, belong, stay safe, or keep going.
Gestalt therapy offers a relational and experiential way of working. Rather than focusing only on what has happened in the past, we also pay attention to what is happening now — in the body, in emotions, in patterns of protection, and in the ways we relate to ourselves and others.
This is gentle, reflective work. We move at a pace that supports awareness, nervous-system safety, emotional capacity and self-contact.
Individual Gestalt Psychotherapy
Individual therapy may be helpful if you are exploring emotional neglect, complex trauma patterns, anxiety, depression, relational difficulty, self-worth, life transitions, or long-standing patterns and adaptations that continue to shape your adult life.
Together, we may explore how old patterns developed, how they are still affecting you in the present, and what becomes possible when there is more awareness, compassion and choice.
This work is not about finding what is wrong with you. It is about understanding what happened, how you adjusted, and how you may begin to relate to yourself and others in ways that feel more spacious, grounded and alive.
Relationship and Relational Patterns
Many of our adult relationship patterns make more sense when we understand the emotional atmosphere we grew up in.
Early experiences of emotional absence, inconsistency, criticism, overwhelm, abandonment, intrusion or lack of repair can shape how we experience closeness, trust, boundaries, conflict and emotional safety.
In therapy, we may explore patterns such as over-functioning, withdrawal, people-pleasing, caretaking, difficulty asking for help, fear of being too much, or the sense that you have to manage everything alone.
This is not necessarily relationship counselling in the traditional sense. It is a reflective space to understand how early relational experience continues to live in present relationships — and how new possibilities for connection and repair may begin to emerge.
Consultation and Reflective Support
Some people come to this work after reading my books, receiving reflective emails, or recognising themselves in writing about emotional neglect and self-directed healing.
A consultation or period of reflective therapeutic support may help you deepen your own process, make sense of what is being stirred, and bring more awareness to the patterns you are beginning to notice.
This can be especially helpful if you are not sure whether therapy is the next step, but you know something in you is ready to pause, reflect and understand more.
