About the Service
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It's natural that when life feels overwhelming, we sometimes need someone to support us. The journey that is psychotherapy can be enriching, and we can end up gaining more than what we sought to gain initially. Exploring the difficulties in a depth way can offer insights that help us grow and reconnect to our wellbeing.
It's common to feel a little bit nervous when attending a first therapy session. This is completely normal. I offer a low cost initial meeting so we can simply meet and discuss what psychotherapy is, and your needs, in a confidential, safe and gentle way. It is important to explore what is the right therapy and right therapist for you. Core Process Psychotherapy is a mindfulness based psychotherapy with an evidence base for its effectiveness in helping to understand and alleviate suffering. Here is a good article explaining Core Process Psychotherapy, the modality that foremost informs the style of psychotherapy offered, although she has training in other modalities which also contribute. The service is offered at Wharf Street in St Helier, close to the central bus station, several car parks, the harbour area and cafes. |
Why Do People Come for Psychotherapy?
You might chose to come for a variety of reasons such as:
*Wish to explore yourself and your experience of life.
*Wish for more freedom in the way you live.
*To deepen self-knowledge and self-understanding.
*Increase creativity.
*Wishing for a sense of ease, peace and trust.
*Spiritual crisis and the search for deeper inner meaning and purpose.
*Alleviation of suffering such as:
*Wish to explore yourself and your experience of life.
*Wish for more freedom in the way you live.
*To deepen self-knowledge and self-understanding.
*Increase creativity.
*Wishing for a sense of ease, peace and trust.
*Spiritual crisis and the search for deeper inner meaning and purpose.
*Alleviation of suffering such as:
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Panic attacks
- Eating disorders
- Trauma
- Stress
- Relationship difficulties
- Abuse
- Loss of Direction
- Life transition
- Confusing Feelings
- Redundancy
Member of Professional Bodies
Accredited Psychotherapist with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy and Association of Core Process Psychotherapists.
Qualifications
(those more than a year of training in bold)
*Diploma in Supervision (2023)
*Post-Qualification MA in Mindfulness Based Psychotherapeutic Practise. (2015)
*Graduate Diploma in Core Process Psychotherapy. (2014)
*Family Therapy module and supervised systemic family therapy practice (2014).
*Qualified STEPS effective thinking skills facilitator (CBT underpinning). (2012)
*City and Guild Work with Parents Qualification (2012)
*Post-Graduate Diploma in the Therapeutic and Educational Application of the Arts (2009).
*Basic Counselling Skills training, Beacon of Hope Hospice Care Aberystwyth (2007)
*Jungian Archetypal Psychology study modules (Boulder, Colorado 2002).
I have six years of postgraduate training, and have run a clinical practice since 2012 firstly from at Castle Quay Doctor's surgery, then The Bridge Child and Family Centre, The Lido Medical Centre, and now at 4 Wharf Street. I graduated with an MA in in Mindfulness Based Psychotherapeutic Practise in 2015 and am fully accredited.
I have also been run therapeutic arts groups, retreats and taught mindfulness to groups since 2012.
I worked as a Wellbeing Facilitator for six years with families undergoing adversities for Brighter Futures Charity from 2008-2014.
I have been a health care consultant for AXAPPP international insurance since 2017 as well as receiving referrals from States of Jersey HR departments.
I offer an emotionally warm, non-judgmental confidential space. The intention is that this allows trust to develop, and a safe place to explore and deepen what is happening for you. We inquire and let go of what may be at the root of your suffering.
Sessions are typically once weekly for 1 hour per session. Research has shown that this is the best frequency and duration for effective change and healing.
The Karuna Institute's Code of Ethics is followed (please find this available on 'contact' page).
You can read more about Core Process Psychotherapy here.
Sessions are typically once weekly for 1 hour per session. Research has shown that this is the best frequency and duration for effective change and healing.
The Karuna Institute's Code of Ethics is followed (please find this available on 'contact' page).
You can read more about Core Process Psychotherapy here.
My History
The foundations of my training were at the Karuna Institute. Core Process Psychotherapy is a mindfulness based psychotherapy that draws on both contemporary western personality theory, psychodynamics and research, and mindfulness practice. Both offer an understanding of suffering and its alleviation that work together to support the client.
In 2008 I came to work with Brighter Futures Charity where I set up a number of services and run, managed and supervised a number of group and one-to-one client support. I offered clinical supervision to the staff alongside the head of Parenting Support Services, and practiced Family Therapy as supervised therapist and as part of the reflective team. I completed my work with the charity in 2015 to accommodate an expanding psychotherapy practice.
As for my earlier life I was brought up in an environment with plenty of arts through my family. I understood that these arts are a means of exploring the world around us and within us. This was through fine art and music in my family, and later included dance and theatre. I volunteered facilitating therapeutic dance to children from the then war-torn Kosovo in 1999. The arts continually open up my experience of life, knowledge of myself and I enjoy facilitating this for others. The arts can give accurate and broader expression to thoughts, feelings, experiences; what's known and unknown; and experience difficult to put words to. I also offer therapy without use of the arts. It is unique for each person whether the arts are used at all, and if used in what way and to what frequency.
A daily meditation/contemplative practice supports my own being and provides a strong foundation from which to create a gentle broad and strong space for the possibility for people to feel held, supported and seen. This supports my own deeper self-knowledge which helps me to be a 'clean palette' as possible in my presence and offering to those who come to work with me.
I offer you a low cost (£30 to cover overheads) 40min initial meeting either in person or through Skype. If you decide to continue to book sessions, there is then a commitment to six sessions which gives a chance for real change, and to have a good taste of how the work with me is. On the sixth session we review how it is going. Each session is between 1 hour, and costs £90 per session and is usually weekly, at least in the initial stages.
The initial consultation is a chance for both you and I to find out more about each other, and more specifically about the journey you wish to undertake. It is non-judgmental and confidential.
Welcome!
In 2008 I came to work with Brighter Futures Charity where I set up a number of services and run, managed and supervised a number of group and one-to-one client support. I offered clinical supervision to the staff alongside the head of Parenting Support Services, and practiced Family Therapy as supervised therapist and as part of the reflective team. I completed my work with the charity in 2015 to accommodate an expanding psychotherapy practice.
As for my earlier life I was brought up in an environment with plenty of arts through my family. I understood that these arts are a means of exploring the world around us and within us. This was through fine art and music in my family, and later included dance and theatre. I volunteered facilitating therapeutic dance to children from the then war-torn Kosovo in 1999. The arts continually open up my experience of life, knowledge of myself and I enjoy facilitating this for others. The arts can give accurate and broader expression to thoughts, feelings, experiences; what's known and unknown; and experience difficult to put words to. I also offer therapy without use of the arts. It is unique for each person whether the arts are used at all, and if used in what way and to what frequency.
A daily meditation/contemplative practice supports my own being and provides a strong foundation from which to create a gentle broad and strong space for the possibility for people to feel held, supported and seen. This supports my own deeper self-knowledge which helps me to be a 'clean palette' as possible in my presence and offering to those who come to work with me.
I offer you a low cost (£30 to cover overheads) 40min initial meeting either in person or through Skype. If you decide to continue to book sessions, there is then a commitment to six sessions which gives a chance for real change, and to have a good taste of how the work with me is. On the sixth session we review how it is going. Each session is between 1 hour, and costs £90 per session and is usually weekly, at least in the initial stages.
The initial consultation is a chance for both you and I to find out more about each other, and more specifically about the journey you wish to undertake. It is non-judgmental and confidential.
Welcome!
The Karuna Institute
07797 77 99 49
hello@naomi-west.com
