Stuart Griffin
Member Status: Senior Accredited
Member No: NCS16-03816
Location: Swansea
I am a senior accredited counsellor working in Swansea, South Wales. I am accredited by the National Counselling Society and I am currently working towards full accreditation as a psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), the UK’s professional body for accrediting psychotherapists.
I offer a space in which a client feels safe enough to share whatever they need to, I listen, deeply and attentively, with compassion and without judgement and I work collaboratively to help the client to gain greater awareness of the issues that have brought them to therapy and to start to understand how change is possible. I believe that change needs a lot of support and a bit of of healthy challenge, it needs old experiences to be reworked in the light of new insights and it needs to unfold within relationship.
The therapeutic relationship is the most important feature of the therapy that I provide. Humans are social beings, and we depend on one another for survival and happiness. Relationships are always complicated and sometimes harmful. As children, we learn everything we know, feel and do through relationships with our caregivers. We also need relationships to create meaning and work out answers to our most fundamental existential questions; who am I, who are these others and what are we supposed to be doing in the world?