Mansion House Counselling Practice

Free Initial Consultation

Therapy is an effective way of dealing with personal problems. It provides a safe environment in which to talk things over and explore your feelings in a non-judgmental setting, often impossible to find elsewhere.

Therapy works by helping you understand how your life experiences are affecting you in the present, influencing the way that you think, and the way that you relate to yourself and others.

It's not easy. We do not tell you what to do. We aim to give you choices. To explore options that you may not have considered.

Our approach is called psychodynamic, which simply means that we work together. Two psyches (minds) interacting dynamically. We are not limited by any one theory or technique. Instead we work with any and every technique that is relevant to the situation.

We are professionally qualified and experienced therapists offering help for a wide range of problems and issues. Our consulting room is conveniently situated 100 yards from Mansion House tube station.

Everything discussed with your therapist is confidential. If you are willing to be honest with yourself and prepared to work, you can change your life.

Reasons for coming to therapy:

What next?

To arrange a consultation call us on 020 7760 7541 or email us at [email protected]. The Initial Consultation is free. Ongoing sessions are charged at £70 per session. Payment is by either cash or cheque at the end of each session. Concessions are available and can be discussed with your therapist.

All enquiries are treated in confidence. You will find further information on counselling, psychotherapy and our practice in the following pages which we hope you will find useful.

Points to ponder before the first meeting

Points to ponder after the first meeting

Location

Mansion House Counselling Practice is located near Mansion House tube station on Queen Victoria Street in The City, providing Counselling and Psychotherapy in Central London within easy reach of Westminster (Buckingham Palace, Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey), Whitechapel (Royal London Hospital), Embankment (The South Bank Centre, The Royal National Theatre, The Hayward Gallery), Victoria, Sloane Square and Chelsea.

About Us

Mansion House Counselling Practice is part of a collective of experienced and qualified Counsellors and Psychotherapists in The City and Central London. We all share a common sacred respect for the human spirit in all it's forms.

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Latest Article: Quotations

Author: Michael Meade
“A false sense of security is the only kind there is.”

“When faced with great danger and when people panic and seek a false sense of safety, run towards the roaring and go where you fear to go. For only in facing your fears can you find some safety and a way through. When the world rattles and the end seems near, go towards the roar.”

“In the end, what we fear will not go away, for it indicates what we must go through in order to awaken, become more genuine, and live more fully. The problem is that we tend to be most afraid of what our own souls require of us. Often our deepest fear is that we might become who we are intended to be, who we already are at our core. For becoming who we truly are requires the greatest amount of change.”



Author: Joseph Campbell
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.”

“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”

“All religions are true but none are literal.”

“We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalises.”

“All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”

“Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”

“A bit of advice
Given to a young Native American
At the time of his initiation:
As you go the way of life,
You will see a great chasm. Jump.
It is not as wide as you think.”



Author: Carl Gustav Jung
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.”

“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”

“As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.”

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”

“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.”

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”

“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ”

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

“Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event.”

“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”

“We cannot change anything unless we accept it.”

“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”

“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”



Author: Sigmund Freud
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful”

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility”

“We are never so defenceless against suffering as when we love”

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways”

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength”

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”

“Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me”

“Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy”


“A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror”