Our Approach

We integrate many theories and practices. The Humanistic belief is that given the right conditions humans are naturally healthy. Into this we incorporate the Psychoanalytic concerns with human development and the childhood patterns that still affect us. These theories are held lightly within our practice of what is often referred to as Dialogical Psychotherapy, whose central emphasis is on the relationship between therapist and client.

BCPC’S Core Values

We recognise and encourage the unfolding of human potential in therapy, education and beyond.

We encourage the potential of the individual in becoming more real, in touch with his / her core or true self, and internally connected. We respect the other’s reality and ability to choose how to be and to act. For us, acceptance is prior to judgment and discrimination. We see experience as coming before skills, theoretical understanding and wisdom. In our relating, neither theory nor technique should impede an existential meeting. Truth is uncovered, perhaps created, by the relationship in therapy, not by the practitioner’s theories. To honour these values requires the risk and struggle of wholehearted engagement. In our work we value a holistic approach that involves and links mind, body and spirit. We recognise the importance of spiritual and cultural sources and traditions as well as the teachings of counselling and psychotherapy.

We wish to work with whoever seeks our help and will not exclude people on the basis of their race, colour, nationality, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, class, age, HIV status, disability or having dependants.