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explore, reflect, experiment, play
I'm interested in you: your experience, your world and the ways they might have made you feel stuck or feel like something's not right. I believe that the world can separate us from our deepest form of support, which lies in our relationships to ourself and others. I want to accompany you on a journey to recovering that support, by reconnecting with your self and your world.
jo dobson barker therapy
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About me
My style of therapy
Collaborative
I believe that we get stuck in life because of situations in which we are not met or responded to appropriately. I want to help create an atmosphere in which you feel responded to, and I will create that in collaboration with you.
Here and now
I believe that, in life, we do not get many opportunities to explore what's happening for us in our experience, right now. In therapy, I will support you to go deeper into your present experience. I hope that together we can expand the feeling of choicefulness you have in your life.
Contextual
I believe that difficult situations we go through lead us into suffering, pain and stuckness. I seek to illuminate the situations in your life, past, present and future. I hope that by shedding light on the contexts that have shaped you, you will experience new possibilities of shaping the future.
My background
I have worked with a wide variety of experiences and suffering, including feeling stuck, isolated, worthless, depressed and anxious. I welcome and have experience working with a diverse range of identities and characteristics, including minoritised identities, gender identities and neurodiversity.
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I am a professionally qualified Psychotherpeutic Counsellor (Diploma in Gestalt Psychotherapeutic Counselling, from Metanoia Institute Faculty of Psychotherapy and Counselling). I also hold a PhD in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University.