Welcome.
I'm Helen King. I am now training in Pastoral Care and no longer work as a psychotherapist.
Previously, I worked for 14 years as an in-depth psychotherapist, general counsellor and qualified life coach. Prior to that I was in general management and marketing management in high-profile companies and sectors.
In addition, I worked voluntarily for around three years as an Associate Director of a NHS mental health trust (reviewing patients Sectioned under the Mental Health Act) and also held a similar role for The Priory group for about a year. I also founded three 12-Step groups, focusing on codependency.
A NEW APPROACH
Psychotherapy, counselling and coaching, in the main, focus on what is inside of you - and you may keep digging over the garden, so to speak, but never plant any strong seeds and see them grow. When people feel down, society's response is "you need therapy" - hence my original working name, Take2Therapy! Yet, over the years, with a full client list, I became concerned about how the psychotherapeutic sector a) can develop an individual's reliance on it, and b) how the psychotherapeutic governing bodies create power and status at the expense of therapists.
My belief is that 90% of people do not need to spend money on therapy - sometimes a lot of money.
Pastoral Care is, indeed, focused on God/Creator/something bigger-than-me-out-there. I'll walk alongside you and help shift that focus outwards, towards others, towards the creator of all life, from which you can receive peace. Its available to all. Its free.
PASTORAL CARE Teddington, the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and in the Isle of Wight. Pastoral Care is offered over the Internet/face-to-face and in-person - and welcomes everyone.
Photo credits
Main photo across all pages: Colourful, handmade salt and pepper pots, from the Jewish Museum, South Beach, Miami - engaged in the complex dance of being in-relationship.
