It feels fitting that our first post begins outside.
At Contemporary Psychology Clinic, we offer nature-based and walking therapy alongside more traditional ways of meeting. Being outdoors can create a different kind of therapeutic space — movement, changing surroundings and contact with the natural world can help us slow down, notice what is happening within us, and sometimes allow thoughts and feelings to emerge differently.
This photograph also captures something about how we would like to use this page.
Nature rarely unfolds according to a precise plan. Things emerge, interact and change direction. There are spontaneous chains of events, yet over time patterns and pathways become visible. Human lives — and therapy — can be much the same.
Therapy holds an interesting balance between what we already know and what is still emerging. We bring knowledge, experience and psychological understanding, but we also remain curious about what appears unexpectedly. We notice, reflect, try to make sense of what is happening, and gradually become more able to choose the direction in which we want to move.
We would like this page to work in a similar way. Rather than being a perfectly planned series of psychology posts, it will be something closer to a weekly reflective diary — thoughts arising from our clinical work, nature, relationships, psychological ideas and the ordinary experiences of being human.
Spontaneous, but with a direction.
A little like therapy. And perhaps a little like life.
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