Daisy Duval - Humanistic psychotherapeutic counselling

About Daisy

Each of us lives out our unique story, constantly shaped by our experience of the relationships and world around us, in which suffering is an inevitable part of being human. The aim of therapy is not to provide a solution to our distress, instead it can help us to tolerate it, to shift our perception and gain strength from our wounds.

As a humanistic psychotherapeutic counsellor, I will offer to be with you as we collaboratively explore what it is like and what it means to be you. With warmth and compassion, I hope to build a therapeutic relationship based on trust, safety and an openness to the possibility of being vulnerable. Being curious about whatever we notice about the here-and-now experience of being human together can help to develop a greater awareness, understanding and acceptance of how and who you are. In accompanying you through this counselling chapter, we can discover the resources and choices available to you to develop a more authentic readiness for the challenges and uncertainty of the next part of your story. You are the expert and author in being you.

I hold a postgraduate diploma in humanistic psychotherapeutic counselling from the University of Brighton. My training involved Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, person-centred and existential approaches. I have provided counselling to women at the trauma-informed Brighton Women’s Centre and at the counselling service for students at the Greater Brighton Metropolitan College. I have supported clients who have experienced relationship difficulties, life transitions, anxiety, depression, domestic abuse, loss and grief. I am a member of the BACP and I can work face-to-face or online.