Supporting you to heal, grow and reconnect
At Courageous Being, our approach is attachment-based, trauma-informed, and emotion-focused.
Our approach to therapy is grounded in research and designed to help individuals and couples feel safer, more supported, and more connected—in their relationships and within themselves. We work gently to shift unhelpful patterns of conflict or self-criticism into more open, honest, and compassionate conversations.
At the heart of this work is a focus on emotion. By tuning into and making sense of our feelings, we gain powerful insights into ourselves and our loved ones. This promotes self-awareness, acceptance, and emotional regulation, while opening the door to new ways of expressing ourselves. Facing difficult emotions in a safe, supportive space allows us to process and transform them—helping us heal, grow, and create lasting change.
This approach is flexible and responsive, honouring different communication styles, supporting neurodivergent needs, and fully affirming LGBTQ+ identities and relationships. With a trauma-informed lens, we move at a pace that feels safe and respectful, always mindful of how past experiences shape present challenges. Ultimately, this work helps people strengthen trust, compassion, and connection—healing old wounds and building deeper bonds.
“Being the ‘best you can be’ is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.”
— Sue Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy
What to Expect
At Courageous Being we recognise that seeking therapy takes courage. Which is why we honour your bravery by walking alongside you, every step of the way.
Our approach is attachment-based and trauma-informed, taking a client-centred and experiential path in therapy. We focus on the importance of awareness, acceptance, and understanding of emotions, working gently with the deeper experiences that often sit beneath conflict or disconnection with ourselves and those we love. By tuning into these emotional experiences in a safe and supportive way, we help clients move toward healing, growth, and lasting change in their relationships.
You can expect your psychotherapist to work with you in the following ways:
Empathetic listening: Hearing and understanding you, without judgement.
Reframing experience: Identifying perspectives of partners and family members, and understanding issues through the lens of your attachment needs and desires.
Focused redirection: Maintaining focus within the session to enable us to address the heart of the matter, together.
Supportive encouragement: Acting as a personal coach and support team, encouraging you every step on your journey toward Courageous Being.
Active reflecting: Checking in and normalising your experiences.
Experience validation: Welcoming your emotions to the room and reaffirming that your experiences are important to us and to the therapeutic process.
Emotion heightening: Undertaking courageous process of touching on deep emotions, building awareness and compassion for you and your loved ones, promoting lasting change.
Tracking problem cycles: Piecing together details to help you identify the cycle at the core of your distress, assisting you in creating new, adaptive patterns.
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