Certified Focusing-Oriented Therapist
As an HCPC registered chartered counselling psychologist, I understand how the problems we encounter can often result from difficult life circumstances. With doctoral-level training in evidence-based approaches, I am committed to consider the person’s unique context. I work in the public-health service as well as private practice and having supported children, young people, adults and older adults, I can adapt my approach to be age appropriate.
I believe that we all have a natural ability to move towards healing. Together, we can develop a compassionate understanding of what is at the root of your problems and help you break free from repeating patterns. My hope is to co-create a relationship to help you find a road map and navigate life with greater ease.
Personal Statement
My work combines aspects of humanistic therapy, psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, creative therapy, biospirituality, wholebody focusing and relational wholebody focusing, transactional analysis, attachment theory, existential therapy and systems therapy. However, foundational to all of this is safety, the client’s own experience and how to safely express that experience whether it be through art, play, movement, story, music etc.
I am particularly interested in how the body expresses trauma through pain and chronic illness, how to provide a safe container for shame to be accompanied and healed and intergenerational resilience and post-traumatic growth when working with trauma.
I love what I do and the people I have the privilege to work with and strive to create a safe, supportive space for the client’s own felt experience and inner resources to be explored.
Location:
Online Sessions – UK and International
Public Contact Details
Website
email: drnicoamari@proton.me
Language: English
Professional memberships with licensing or registering bodies:
Health and Care Professions Council: Practitioner Psychologist.
British Psychological Society: Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Associate Fellow.
The International Focusing Institute: Certified Focusing Professional.
Academic and training qualifications:
Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.
Therapeutic services:
Individual psychotherapy/counselling,Online sessions
Areas of special interest or advanced training:
I have a special interest in considering the intersection of traumatic experiences and often minoritised identities, such as neurodivergence, ethnic, sexual and gender diversity. I am trained in EMDR and, in addition to Focusing, I draw from experiential and psychodynamic therapies, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.
Permission:
*I give permission for my information to be listed, and for people to contact me using this information
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