You are the expert in your own life, and that you can discover your own answers through guided self-exploration. The role of Person Centred Counselling is to be curious but non-mechanistic, ensuring autonomy, withholding judgement, and demonstrating unconditional acceptance.

Validating your experiences, in your words and finding parallel storylines with new insight as a path to healing. (Narrative Therapy ).

Support your inherent capacity to adapt to difficult circumstances & events, and find new ways to evolve that maintains your values. (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy )

Realistic choices & self-empowerment arising from what is possible, and what you would like to change or retain. (Solutions Focussed Therapy)

Being Neurodivergent is not something to be “fixed”. Neurodivergent Affirming therapy steers away from social expectations to think and act to what may be presented as neurotypical, especially where doing so causes distress & harm. It aims for the person to explore their neurodivergent identity and find their own unique strengths. As a development within the social disability movement, it is also a doorway for a client to understand they are part of a community and a culture.

The personal cost of caring for someone who is undergoing their own personal struggle with chronic psychological, physical or serious life limiting illness is often not adequately acknowledged by the health system. As well as being able to provide support to such clients, we have collated resources to assist those needing support in between scheduled appointments.

The therapeutic journey should give considerable room for Personal Expression. Whether that be through art, music, writing, diverse spiritual practices or finding resonance in multi-media, gaming or sub/culture affiliation. The Geek Therapy Affinity-Based Approach acknowledges these as part of your identity. These can be incorporated in ways that provide validation, a sense of safety and a familiar language for expressing difficult emotions.

Refined from over 30 years of direct experience in meditation and mindfulness techniques from across Western Evidence-informed models, Martial Arts and lineage-based Kriya Yoga. The Receptive Meditation entry point is accessible, flexible, visualisation-free, involves no chanting/intonation, does not require adopting unfamiliar metaphysical views about the Self, any beliefs or spiritual dogma. Presented over a series of lessons, this is provided free and open access to all Hive Minds Therapy clients.