At times we experience things in our lives that can cause harm, damage us, crack us, or break us in some way. That might be emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, physically, in our relationships, in how we feel about ourselves, other people, or the world we live in. It might affect our day to day functioning, our ability to work, or do things we would normally enjoy. We might get to a place where we feel stuck, and can't see a way forwards to where we want to be.

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In Japan, broken dishes and bowls are pieced back together and repaired with a lacquer mixed with gold. Once mended, the breaks have not gone away, it is not that the events that caused them did not happen, but the dish/bowl is able to function as it did before it was broken, except now it is considered to be more valuable because of the scars it holds.

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The goal of counselling is to see restoration and wholeness, being able to live a life where past events no longer leave us broken in some way, but instead being able to live life whole, and functioning as we wish, and where old scars can offer an unexpected value in our lives. Counselling cannot take away the experiences you have had, but through the therapy process we can make sense of what you have experienced, what those experiences have meant for you, and put back together the 'broken pieces' these experiences have caused.