Meet ANgie
Angie is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist, partner and mum of 3 with 20 years experience in a variety of mental health contexts from research and evaluation to large scale program development and her passion - working face to face supporting people. She has worked in community organisations, the voluntary sector, churches and private practice in Canada, South Africa and the United Kingdom. Her approach to her therapeutic practice is integrative drawing on Attachment Science, Emotionally Focussed Therapy, Person Centered, Relational Psychodynamics, CBT schools, mindfulness, Compassion and Acceptance, and the neurobiology of trauma.
She believes passionately in seeing people restored to emotional and relational health walking alongside them in their healing journey, and empowering others to do the same through training, workshops and pastoral care.
Angie works with both adults and adolescents with most psychological presentations, and has had particular experience working with the effects of anxiety and trauma, life transitions, bereavement and loss. She has a special interest in working with new parents to develop stronger emotionally and relationally connected foundations just as they are getting started.
“I often see how confused we are about where we get our sense of significance, and in our search can often do so at the cost of what brings true significance. We seem to swop our primary needs of love and belonging for individuality and success. We live in a world where our value and belonging come from achievement, importance, wealth and power (in whatever way we define it). I face up to this daily in my own life and in the lives of many others.”
“We can often put our individual success above our need for each other. Loving connectedness and real relationships are the cornerstone of our human happiness, wellbeing, and sense of significance. We know through attachment science, neuroscience and multiple psychologies that we are primarily “a social, relational and bonding species”*. Love and belonging are our most fundamental needs to experience value and significance, and we are wired to seek out emotionally connected relationships where love and reassurance can be reliably obtained. ”
“So I am passionate about helping us find our way back. From false refuge (where rather than getting in touch with our pain, we are caught up in ways of avoiding it) to courage, vulnerability, kindness and compassion, safety in love and connection again.”