Description: Steve Silverton is a psychotherapist and supervisor in North London with over 20 years experience. Based in Stoke Newington near Stamford Hill N6 he offers online or face to face counselling and Psychotherapy.
n6 (10) psychotherapy and supervision in stoke newington (1) north london. psychotherapist steve silverton near stamford hill (1)
CALL 07791519844 CONTACT ME BY EMAIL HOME PSYCHOTHERAPY SUPERVISION ABOUT ME FEES & LOCATION CONTACT BLOG HOME PSYCHOTHERAPY SUPERVISION ABOUT ME FEES & LOCATION CONTACT BLOG Welcome Reaching out for help isn’t always easy. It sometimes takes courage to be vulnerable. Perhaps your suffering is one you can easily name and define – depression, anxiety, relationship problems – or something less tangible? Whatever it is, my experience tells me that speaking about it, feeling into it and finding words for it, in
If suffering is to a certain extent an inevitable component of every human life- hopefully amongst and alongside some joy, some contentment – then what makes the difference is how we are with it. Can we bring acceptance and self-compassion to what cannot be changed? Can we support ourselves to be the best versions of ourselves? I believe that a therapeutic relationship, in combination with the practices we adopt and the steps of change we make to integrate into the fabric of our lives the insights and shift
The image of the bowl here is an example of the Japanese art of Kintsugi – repairing broken pottery with lacquer mixed with powdered gold. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as possessing their own beauty rather than something to disguise. In this it is a kind of pottery equivalent of the famous lines by Leonard Cohen : ‘There is a crack in everything/ That’s how the light gets in’.