Nathan Claxton UKCP Reg - BSc, MSc, MSc, Dip
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Integrative Psychotherapist
Psychodynamic Counsellor
Relational Supervisor
As a relationally orientated therapist, I help clients integrate past and present psychological difficulties through the use of the therapeutic relationship. Since we are unable to stop feelings, the therapeutic work with me is about allowing, accepting, and understanding feelings. Through this creative, immersive, and reflective, co-created process, healthier ways of being and relating is achieved.
With many years’ experience supporting a widely diverse range of clients and colleagues, it has been my experience that if a safe and authentic relationship can be established, the foundation of change is achieved. This aligns with the, now well know common factor, across therapeutic modalities:
IT IS THE QUALITY OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP THAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PREDICTOR OF OUTCOME
I am particularly interested in supporting individuals affected by developmental trauma. This includes helping individuals who have been exposed to severe childhood abuse, through to supporting those impacted by the challenges inherent in all experiences of navigating our earliest relationships.
With an interest and professional background in physical health as a squash coach, a career in mental health and other influences, I am guided by scientific and philosophical principles underlined by non-dualism. This supports my holistic approach to therapy. This approach emphasises the centrality of compassion toward self and others, often damaged and requiring help to rebuild, as laying at the core of authentic and successful living and central to the healing process.
Trauma informed therapy
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Presence
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Process orientated
As a lone pilgrim walking the French way of the Camino De Santiago, I came to appreciate what process orientated meant.
It was easy to drift off, maybe into the woes that were plaguing me or wishing I had arrived at the next resting place, to my stomach rumbling and unhappy it had not been fed or perhaps just point blank wishing I was back home with my family having a ‘normal’ Christmas vacation. However, as the minutes, hours, and days passed I came to realise something: one leg went in front of the other, then the other in front of that, and then the first one again in front of the other, and so on.
Why was noticing the simple mechanics of walking important? To a large degree, being honest, I do not know. I do know though it was important. Whatever else was or was not happening in each moment, in my life, in the lives of all others, for good or bad, for better or worse, I was being propelled to move forward, to take one step at a time. It was all I could do, it was painful, it was joyful, it was life.
We are all part of a process that cannot be stopped, that cannot be tamed. We can be present to it or distracted from it. Sometimes we have some say in where it takes us; most of the time we do not. Where it takes us is a mystery.
Not paying attention to our process often leads to unnecessary harm, paying attention to our process offers us gifts.
As Jung noted:
“ Nowhere are we closer to the sublime secret of all origination than in the recognition of our own selves….even though we do not understand it - we can listen directly to the throb of creation itself”
I will often bring myself and my clients back to the observing of our intrapsychic processes, the interpersonal process between us, and the link between these three components of the therapeutic dyad. The act of illumination brings forth new possibilities for clients as each engage in the unfolding of lived experience.
Psychospiritual
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