Ray Bruce
Counsellor/Psychotherapist in Kensal Green
Qualifications:
- Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy, University of Wales, 2009
- Introduction to CBT, Centre for Stress Managament, 2009
- Post Graduate Certificate in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy, University of east Anglia, 2010
Governing Bodies:
- Member, BACP
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Ray Bruce
Ashburnham Road
Kensal Green
NW10 5SE
United Kingdom
07775 635568
Catchment Areas:
- Paddington
- Notting Hill
- Kilburn
- Kensal Green
- Kensal Rise
- Harrow
- Harlesden
- Ealing
- West Hampstead
- West Acton
- Willesden
- Willesden Green
- North Kensington
- Cricklewood
- Wembley
- Wembley Park
Personal Profile
I am an Integrative therapist, which means my training involved looking at a variety of theories and approaches to Psychotherapy. I completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Psychotherapy and Counselling in June 2008 and was awarded the diploma in August 2009. In April 2010 I completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy from The University of East Anglia.
My counselling experience includes work for The Terence Higgins Trust and Cruse Bereavement Care.
Areas of Interests:
-Bereavement
-Attachement and Loss
-Relationships
-Family and Childhood issues
-HIV and AIDS related issues.
One area that I am particularly interested in is the Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy approach to therapy.
What is Focusing?
Focusing is a special way of paying attention to yourself, so that you sense the whole way you are feeling about situations or issues in your life. This is different from just having emotions or just getting in touch with feelings. Focusing involves having a different kind of relationship with emotions and feelings. It’s as if you are becoming your own good listener. The result is greater calm, wiser choices, and a deeper sense of connection to your own life and being.
Typically when something is distressing us, and we feel upset and agitated, we have a tendency to want to figure out a solution. Our reasoning is, if we can figure it out intellectually, we think that means we’ll be able to solve the problem and implement the solution. And this works well… until it doesn’t. Life’s toughest problems, especially the ones involving emotions and other people, can’t be solved this way.
With Focusing you bypass the intellectual analyzing. You go directly to the place where you have a deep body knowing about the situation. There is wisdom in our body-mind which we tend to ignore, partly because our modern, fast-paced, head-oriented culture is just not set up that way.
Work Approach
As my client you are an individual and your concerns and issues that you bring are unique to you. You may wish to talk about your current situation or something of your past. There is no set pace at which we work but if you feel you need to set goals with a certain life situation that is fine too. The session is yours to use as you wish.
Sometimes it may help you to look inwardly to see where or what it is you are feeling with relation to your situation at the present moment. I can help you to access those inner feelings in a calm, gentle and non-judgemental way.
When we meet for the first time we will discuss what has brought you to seek counselling and for you to decide if I am the right person with whom to explore you problems.
I am a registered member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapist and adhere to their code of ethics. I offer short term and long term counselling and can offer consessions where applicable.
I have the required level of insurance.
I can also offer Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy
Focusing is a mode of inward bodily attention and is more than being in touch with your feelings. Focusing occurs exactly at the interface of body-mind. It consists of specific steps for getting a body sense of how you are in a particular life situation. The body sense is unclear and vague at first, but if you pay attention it will open up into words or images and you experience a felt shift in your body.
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