About

Hi, my name is Rik, and I am a fully qualified (Prof.Dip Psy C) and professionally accredited MNCPS (Acc) and registered MBACP (Reg) Psychotherapeutic Counsellor offering a safe, non-judgemental environment, from which you will have the time and freedom to safely explore and share any difficult, overwhelming, or conflicting concerns you may have. The ultimate aim here, is to provide you the opportunity and space to reach out and be listened to empathically, whilst experiencing a close and collaborative therapeutic relationship, from which to reframe and understand more about your ‘authentic self’, which can often become veiled or suppressed within us. Contributory factors will not only derive from our ‘here and now’ experiences, that maybe exacerbated or connected to the pressures of our current modern daily lives and expectations… but also emanate from our powerful internalised ‘learnt core beliefs’, that control how we perceive ourselves and others around us.

As well as the ‘Rogerian’ core conditions of Empathy, Congruence and Unconditional Positive Regard, I combine Psychodynamic, CBT, & Person-Centred modalities, to create a modern Integrative approach, which enables me to remain flexible within the working alliance and offer a more personalised and individual overall experience and therapy plan. My practice also includes operating to a strict ‘Code of Ethics’ that entails GDPR Data protection, safeguarding and confidentiality policies, all of which, will be fully discussed prior to the commencement of any therapy plan.

In addition to my own private practice, I currently work three days a week at ‘St Barnabas House hospice’ located in Worthing. I have also attained entry to a register of counsellors, who specifically work for the ‘Ben Raemer Foundation’, to support its members. This is facilitated through the ‘National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society’.

I am comfortable working face-to-face, online, or via telephone with many types of presentations and realise that much of the time the initial presenting issue, might not always truly reflect the underlying issues. This is where the therapeutic relationship can support and facilitate an individual’s journey of discovery, and enable a person to become more aware and accepting of who they are and why…

“Cogito, ergo sum” – “I think, therefore I am” (Descartes. R. 1673)