Madalina Edwards - Life coaching, Couselling and Psychotherapy

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” - Rumi

Therapy is a tool to resolve the challenges in your life, to help you feel more confident and more in control, providing insight and showing you a path through the experiences that are part of being human. Life can put you in a lonely place, maybe too hard to cope with, complicated, challenging or confusing.

Many people go through periods of times when they feel vulnerable, anxious, stressed, depressed or just unhappy. Sometimes these are triggered by obvious causes, like a breakup in a relationship, job loss or a bereavement, while at other times the underlying causes seem opaque, especially when life appears to be fulfilling and generally good. At the heart of my approach to therapy is a belief that the answer to life’s dilemmas is not “out there” but within us. When we start to love and accept ourselves as we are, we can begin to feel more empathy for others, our relationships will improve, and we will find it easier to have the sort of life we want.

Our heart can feel broken in so many ways; at work, at home, in spirit, in childhood, in relationships. It can be broken at any age, and countless times. Having a toolkit for repairs is essential. We carry around sadness, guilt, shame, pain, darkness, despair and in some cases like fertility we have a sense of desperation, all whilst working, loving, physically changing, caring and achieving. It is possible to feel relief, to let some of the pain go, to gain strength in your character and your confidence, to have the ability to heal and grow so you can live a life with less anxiety, worry and horrible thoughts. Psychotherapy can help through providing a safe and supportive non-judgmental space to look into the possible sources of feelings, behavioural patterns and core beliefs that might be the underlying causes of distress.

My earnest belief is that we each have the innate resources to meet our own needs however may need some guidance from a trained companion to realise our latent potential and make sense of our world. I am passionate about personal empowerment, self-responsibility/awareness and believe that these can be the keys to a more fulfilling and meaningful life. We will pay particular attention to your thoughts and feelings taking into account your past experiences, current circumstances, and desires for the future. The aim is to tailor therapy around your individual needs to enable you to work through whatever is causing you suffering and distress and to prepare you to make the changes you want in your life.

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