Holistic Counselling – Claire Welch

- Provisional Counsellor with the New Zealand Association of Counsellors (NZAC)
- Registered Clinical Counsellor with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)
- Full Member with International Institute of Complementary Therapists (IICT)

Holistic counselling looks at the whole of you, your body, your mind and your spirit, rather than treating one problem in isolation. A lot of what we carry shows up in more than one place, so the way you sleep, the way you hold tension, the thoughts that loop at night, these are often connected. My work is to sit with all of it alongside you, gently, and see what wants to be understood.

Process Work is the main approach I use. It is a client-centred way of working that was developed by Arnold Mindell, drawing on Jungian psychology, quantum physics and Taoism. The idea behind it is that the things troubling you, the symptoms, the discomfort, the stuck feeling, are not just problems to get rid of. When we slow down and unfold them, they often carry the seeds of your own healing and reconnect you with a wisdom you already hold.