SIMON HINCH
COUNSELLING, SUPERVISION & TRAINING
Services Avaliable
Counselling and Psychotherapy
Individual, Couple & Group Therapy
Counselling can be provided on an individual, couple or family basis. This often begins with an intial session where we can meet and discuss your needs, hopes and desires for change. Additionally this is your opportunity to make your assessment of what it is I provide and develop a sense for whether I am the right therapist for you. I am the first to say that making the choice to meet with a therapist is often a difficult and important step and it is vital that you feel comfortable, respected and safe.
From this starting point we can negotiate the approach that might be most suitable for you and/or your relationships and develop some ideas of how we are to measure our success and review our progress. Following this, the process is open ended, with some clients recieving what they need from the first session and others returning for deeper work over much longer periods of time. In the words of Jack Kornfield renound meditation teacher and author:
'In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.
I look forward to meeting with you and your family, and deeply value the opportunity to wittness and facilitate the movement of change in your life.
Trance-work
Hypnosis & meditation
Both Hypnosis & various meditation practices can be understood as existing within the shared realm of Trance-work. Trance which is notoriously difficult to define, can be understood as an experience of inner or outer focus and absorption which can provide a state of learning and increased access to unconscious resources and skills. While there are many types of Trance, the founder of much modern psychotherapy Milton Erikson MD. once said:
“Trance is a natural everyday experience.”
It is the experience of becoming absorbed in reading a book to the point where you forget about your surroundings, where you just realise that you have driven the past twenty kilometers and can't remember any of it, the inner reverie and creative daydreams of the artist or philosopher, or the focused meditation of the Zen practitioner. This is the common everyday trance, and it can act as a powerful resource for healing.
Both meditation and Hypnosis while not therapies in themselves are approaches or ways of application in therapy which allow the possibility of rapid change, insight, and the development and learning of attentional skills and resources which can be utlised in all aspects of ones life. My Role as facilitator is to provide an invitation into the world of trance which can allow you to connect to inner resources and develop the ability to access these in the times and places when you need them the most. Again in the words of Milton Erikson MD:
“You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.”
Coaching, Supervision & Training
Coaching & Supervision for human service practitioners, health workers, Counselors and other professionals is available. This is primarily about providing a reflective, collaborative & goal focused space to address professional and personal concerns with the aim of increased performance, skill development and improved professional and personal competence. This can consist of individual or group supervision and skill development workshops focused around various areas of expertise including Solution Oriented, Narrative and other Systemic approaches to change in various professional contexts. Additionally Monthly workshops & seminars are held on various topics ranging from personal development, spirituality, systemic theory and different approaches to change on the Individual, relational and more global level. for more information please check out www.relationalmind.net or contact me directly.