Brennan Holt - Person-centred counsellor

My approach

I work as a Person-centred counsellor. This means that for me, therapy is about the person you are today and how you feel about the relationships you have to those around you and to yourself. The way I work centres on the idea of creating an environment free from judgement where you can both be yourself and learn to change in ways that feel safe and lasting without the danger of rejection.

This extends explicitly to those who feel they are not free to express aspects of their identity openly in the world without meeting with discrimination. My hope is that by representing myself honestly, we may come to a place of mutual trust in which you feel able to share yourself freely without fear of judgement or encountering my white male fragility.

My approach centres on an openness to you and your experience. This means that it will always be in your power to determine the pace and the direction of what we talk about. My belief is that each of us have the right and the capacity for living a joyful and fulfilling life and that connecting more deeply with our experience is what ultimately helps to make our way forward seem clearer.

I believe that the body can often be a helpful source of understanding and I include mindfulness practices when appropriate and desired.

I am climate aware and acknowledge the spectrum of emotions the degradation of our environment may bring with it. 

I am twelve step friendly and familiar with Anonymous and Al-Anon programmes. I believe in an empowerment approach to working with disordered eating and trauma.

I am Registered with the BACP. I have worked within an NHS service as well as in an addiction rehabilitation centre as a psychotherapist helping people in their recovery. I currently work as a lecturer on a Person-Centred Counselling course as well as in private practice.