Matteo Oriani

Counselling & Image-based therapy

Approach
'The way we imagine our lives is the way we are going to go on living our lives’. James Hillman.
​​I believe that our lives are shaped by the stories that we tell ourselves about ourselves and the world. These define who we believe we are, how we feel with ourselves and others, and how we act in the world. ​
As these stories originated in your past, I will sit beside you and guide you in exploring your past experience to understand how it keeps creating your present. ​
At the same time, we will work creatively to connect with your imagination and gradually change your inner narrative to include new possibilities of thinking, feeling and being.
Whilst we will be mainly talking, I sometimes offer the use of other creative techniques like guided imaginative meditation, mindfulness exercises or drawing, if it feels right in the moment. ​
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My main therapeutic approach is Psychosynthesis. When beneficial I integrate elements from other modalities such as CBT and Person-centred.
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We will meet weekly or fortnightly depending on your needs, on the same day at an agreed time.
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The work arrangement can be short-term if you want to address a specific situation, or open-ended for deeper transformative work. I suggest to initially agree to meet for 6 weeks, to see how that works out. This may be a sufficient number of sessions or you may then decide to continue open-endedly.​​​​​​
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