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My Approach

Therapy and life coaching share a strong foundation in supporting personal growth, fostering self-awareness, and empowering individuals to create meaningful change in their lives. Both use reflective questioning, active listening, and goal-setting to help clients move forward. While therapy may delve deeper into emotional patterns and healing, and coaching often emphasizes practical strategies and future goals, these approaches are highly complementary.


Training in both allows me to offer a seamless, adaptable experience—drawing on therapeutic tools when clients need to process emotions or past experiences, and coaching techniques when they are ready to take action and build new habits. This synergy ensures that each client at Bubbling Brook Counselling and Coaching receives a personalized blend of insight and momentum, tailored to their unique journey and needs.

Aspect

  • ​​​​Who are you?​

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  • What are you going through?

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  • Therapist’s intent

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  • Support

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  • Methodology

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  • Therapy relationship

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  • Journey in therapy​

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  • Mind-body connect​

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  • Life in society

Conventional therapy

  • ​​​​​Focus on the individual and their history alone

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  • Thoughts, emotions and behaviour analysed in isolation​

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  • Focus on identifying problems, symptomatic relief and structured prescriptive coping mechanisms​

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  • Healing as mostly a solo journey – the burden of reaching a new normal is entirely on the individual

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  • Relies entirely on talk therapy and medication

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  • Therapist as an emotionally distant blank screen only reflecting the client’s thoughts, feelings and expressions

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  • Investigative and analytical approach

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  • Analyse and explore emotions in isolation from the body

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  • The social environment is not ascribed any responsibility; therapist is diplomatic, apolitical and otherwise neutral

The Bubbling Brook approach

  • Focus on the whole person, how they identify (gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion etc.), their environment, relationships, cultural norms, personal politics etc.

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  • Belief systems and emotional expression considered as a product of and a response to life events, evolving circumstances, internal and external expectations, and inevitable realities like race, class, caste, mortality and existentialism

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  • Holistic well-being as a function of connection and synergy with mind, body, environment and people

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  • Building and using support systems – empowerment, belonging, collective healing, giving and receiving positive energy

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  • Uses non-verbal expression, tools, rituals, movement, breathwork, art, nature immersion, nurturing your inner child

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  • Therapist as a relatable caring human “fellow traveller”, guide, facilitator and coach; investing in the therapist-client relationship

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  • Curoisity-led personalised approach for gradual, intentional and sustainable change

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  • Receive emotions as well as psychosomatic sensations as messages from the body; The Body Keep the Score

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  • Addresses social norms, privilege, toxic culture, discrimination and power dynamics; centres lived experiences and impact over intent

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