Nerissa Mauricio - Therapeutic Counsellor

About Therapy

You might find yourself here because you are experiencing a crisis, are feeling isolated or misunderstood.

Perhaps you are interested in exploring patterns you’ve noticed frustrate your efforts.

Maybe you feel lost or that you are yet to discover who you are.

Allowing yourself the gift of space and time, to take a deeper look into aspects in which you feel stuck or disempowered can bring about the real change you desire.

I offer a non-judgemental, confidential setting in which together we can give attention to the issues that are troubling you and think about what might need to be different.

My approach is to journey alongside you, making meaning out of your experiences and honouring the uniqueness that you bring.

Counselling can help with…

Stress & Anxiety

Panic Attacks
Social Anxiety
Overwhelm
Disturbed Sleep

Depression

Low-Self Esteem
Confidence
Motivation

Anger

Rage Response
Self-Harm
Self-Sabotage

Relationships

Disharmony
Separation
Lonliness
Family Issues

Fear & Phobias

Irrational Responses
Obsessions
Compulsions

Abuse & Trauma

PTSD
Accidents
Sexual Assualt
Sexual Abuse
Domestic Violence

Grief & Loss

Bereavement
Mid-Life Crisis
Miscarriage
Separation

Addiction & Food

Substance Abuse
Compulsive Behaviour
Eating Disorders

Identity

Cultural & Social Issues
Adoption
Gender
Sexuality
Body-Dyspmorphia

Work Related Issues

Assertiveness
Communication
Bullying
Conflict
Burn-out
Redundancy
Retirement

Personal Development

Feeling Stuck
Making Choices
Finding Purpose
Spiritual Crisis

Health Related Issues

Chronic Fatigue
Insomnia
IBS
Chronic Pain
Disability
Sex
Infertility
Menopause

Integrative Transpersonal Therapy

I use Developmental, Analytic and Humanistic perspectives with a Soulful approach to understand what it happening for you in the here and now.

This might be looking at your family history, childhood environment and the relationships which have informed your current experience.

Accessing the unconscious using images, metaphors, dreams, story and drawing.

Connecting to what is unspoken but held in the body, using movement and breath-work.

I trained at Re-Vision where I gained my Diploma in Integrative Transpersonal Counselling.

I also practiced at their Low Cost Counselling service for three years.

I have been influenced by Jung, Winnicott, Hillman, Gestalt, Somatic & Eco-Psychotherapy.

I am a member of BACP and a trainee member of UKCP and subscribe to their practice policies and standards.

Sessions

I offer long-term and short-term, open-ended and time-limited therapy.

At present my practice is solely online via Zoom, with a view to return to in-person work later in 2022.

Sessions are 50 minutes long and are £60.

I offer some concessionary places, these are dependent on availability.

Initial Meeting

Our first session will give us the opportunity to meet one another and see how it feels to sit and talk in person.

I will gather some back-ground information, to start to have a picture of what has brought you to therapy and what you imagine you would like to get-out of the process.

We can discuss any concerns you might have, previous experiences of therapy and what your expectations are now.

By the end of our first meeting you will have an understanding of how we can work together and what that might look like.

If you then feel you would like to work together, we will form an agreement to continue.

About Me

Before training as a therapist, I studied Landscape Architecture and worked in environmental design.

I am interested in the way in which our surroundings touch upon our human experience; how our relationship to the natural world intersects with our sense-of-self and place in the world and our beliefs.

My time within the private corporate sector provided me with insight into the parts of us that can become lost or fragmented and yearn to be be recovered and woven back into our lives.

I grew-up in rural Wales where my experience of nature as a holding environment, has led me to grow an interest in Eco-Psychotherapy and how it can offer us connection back to self.