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Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy at Avenue Practice in Central & North London with Simone Lee, UKCP MBACP ECP, a registered, experienced existential and integrative psychotherapist, counsellor, supervisor and groupworker, who offers individual psychotherapy & counselling, couple counselling, marriage counselling, supervision and other consultancy services. Simone Lee is informed by humanistic & existential thinking, as has training in CBT & psychodynamic approaches. Her work is underpinned by existential phenomenological philosophy. We work with a range of issues including depression, anxiety, relationship, sexuality and sexual problems, health problems and bereavement. simone lee ukcp ecp Mbacp
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Avenue practice offers confidential psychotherapy and counselling for individuals and couples. Simone Lee and the practitioners on the avenue practice referral network are all professionally registered which means they have achieved a high level of training and achieved good competencies in their work. Being registered also means that they are bound by their registering body's code of ethics and practice.   

individual therapy  (one-to-one work)

I see each individual as unique and having his or her own personal value systems. I believe people always express something of their personal philosophy in the way they live their lives and this is evident not only in times of major decision and crisis, but also in the ordinary choices and details of everyday living. This means how you understand yourself, your relationships with others and the world at large are absolute central to our work together.

As a therapist, I consider you to be the expert about your life, and I act as an assistant or co-explorer. I do not aim to find answers to “problems”, but I do encourage you to deepen your understanding of your way of living and to reflect on and consider the impact your values and meanings have in your life.  In doing this, we are likely to think about past, present and future perspectives of your life, but do not prize any one of those above the other, but wait to see what emerges as important for you in our dialogues. And together we examine how we can open up your possibilities for living even when you are experiencing difficulties.  While, it is likely you will make changes in your life or shift your attitudes, I do not set these as goals for our work.

You can see that my way of working with you is not informed by elaborate theories of the human mind or of human behaviour and you will therefore not be categorised and fitted into a theoretical model.

My therapeutic way of working is often experienced as having enduring benefit and value; the best way to understand it is through experiencing it. I have a very strong belief in the value of therapy.

You may be interested to take the link to my existential philosophy page which underpins my working and living philosophy.

Face to face, skype and online work
 

couple work, marriage and relationship counselling

Every couple's circumstances and needs are unique and so it follows that the aims of the work can be very varied from couple to couple. I will collaborate with you both to find a way of working that takes these factors into account. There is no side-taking in this work, our common aim will be to promote greater mutual understanding between you and an ability to acknowledge the other’s position: this will increase opportunities for real dialogue.

In this work, the relational aspect of your values is brought into focus. Your relationship is co-constituted, created by both of you, and since it is inevitable that people and their circumstances change, we shall look at what has changed for you and what now matters to you, as a couple and as individuals. Aspects of your relationship can be expressed in day-to-day activities and in more intimate contexts. Focusing on what it is you seek from our work, we shall try to understand how these values are expressed within your relationship and explore the challenges that these present. 

I shall encourage you to face and own the difficulties that you are currently experiencing in the relationship and to look at how you respond. We might do this by various methods and this will depend on how we decide to work. Sometimes we will do exercises and sometimes you might have tasks to think about outside of our sessions - this very much depends on you both and what we think might work best.

If the intimate side of your relationship concerns one or other or both of you, I can discuss this with you in a way which I hope will feel safe and supportive and cut through any embarrassment or shame you might be feeling.  

In whichever way we choose to address the issues, we shall always attempt to open out your dialogue to look at more creative and effective ways of managing aspects of your relationship that challenge you most. The aim is for the relationship, no matter what the situation, to be more vital and co-operative and less stuck..

 You may be interested to take the link to my existential philosophy page which underpins my working and living philosophy.

Face to face, skype and online work. 
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Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy at Avenue Practice in Central and North London with Simone Lee, UKCP MBACP ECP who is a registered and experienced existential and integrative psychotherapist, counsellor, supervisor and groupworker, offering individual psychotherapy and counselling, couple counselling and marriage counselling as well as supervision and other consultancy services. Simone Lee is informed by humanistic & existential thinking, as well as  CBT, psychodynamic ideas, however a phenomenological existential attitude is her mode of engaging. Avenue Practice has a network of existential, humanistic, psychodynamic, CBT registered psychotherapists and counsellors. We offer existential psychotherapy and counselling, existential, integrative, cross-theory and humanistic individual and group supervision, consultancy services, group work as well as assessment and referral services.  Our work is short term, medium term and long term. We have some low cost therapy for students and those on lower incomes. We work with a range of problems such as depression, anxiety, relationship, sexuality and sexual problems, health problems and bereavement. We will soon be offering  online counselling, psychotherapy, therapy and supervision too.
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