MA Psych (Counselling) (NMU) PS0146021,
Practice Number 0898996
COMMUNICATION THROUGH
HONESTY AND SAFETY
Creating a warm and safe environment that encourages self exploration
Luke Bands Counselling Psychologist —
I HELP YOU
UNDERSTAND
YOURSELF
DEEPLY.
I am here to help you understand yourself and the challenges you face, and grow and overcome them. Luke Bands is a Counselling Psychologist who's focus is on creating a safe relationship that encourages self exploration, and really getting to know you. Therapy should be specifically tailored to your unique psychology.
I offer individual psychotherapy for adults and teenagers, as well as play therapy with younger children. The range of my work is broad, from coping with trauma or life adjustments, to long term psychotherapy for complex issues.
I am primarily psychodynamic in my approach to therapy. Psychodynamic therapy focuses on improving functioning in different personal domains, such as relationships, impulses and emotions. Deep insight and emotional development are examples of important goals of this kind of therapy. Deeply knowing oneself leads to agency and a sense of mastery over various areas of one’s life.
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
- Anna Freud
"To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.."
- Karen Horney
"Empathy is the capacity to think and feel oneself into the inner life of another person."
- Heinz Kohut
"Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself."
- Alfred Adler
"There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live."
- Karen Horney
"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength."
- Sigmund Freud