Our Values
Compassion– We treat every individual with compassion. We know that profound change is difficult and resisted, and we understand how hard it can be to take the first step towards what you want. We are committed to helping you in this process and supporting you through your journey towards the life you want.
Integrity – We act with utter integrity. Protecting the privacy and security of your information and client confidentiality is very important to us. We adhere to the principles of ethical practice provided by the British Psychological Society guidelines.
Connection – We believe the need for connection to be a fundamental need of human beings. We highly value and promote connection and relatedness in all aspects of our clinical work.
Competence – Our qualified and experienced psychologists and psychotherapists provide tailored interventions grounded on evidence-based practice.
Resilience – We trust, promote and value the inner resilience of each client. We believe that meaningful change can be eventually achieved for every individual. We respect and value the uniqueness of each client.
Our Goals
1 - Empower the individual and the community
At Resilient Wellbeing Clinic, we believe that you shouldn’t live pretending everything is fine if you are in distress or unhappy with your life. You deserve to feel connected and satisfied with yourself, your loved ones, the people in your life, and your work and values. We can help you develop these connections.
With our work, we also want to contribute to making a difference in our community, developing new creative ways to empower individuals. We want to promote diversity, inclusion and social change through our work with clients that can positively affect the wider community. We are committed to sensitising individuals to mental health and individual wellbeing and demystifying the role of counselling and psychotherapy.
2 - Reducing Stigma
We want to contribute to helping individuals consider seeking help for mental health difficulties as important and usual as it is for physical problems.
We believe that therapy can help anyone to change and improve their lives. However, some barriers prevent people from seeking help. The most significant obstacle is associated with stigma, embarrassment and discrimination.
Although attitudes towards mental health difficulties are changing and improving, at least on more common mental health problems, many myths still need to be challenged. It is important to challenge these myths so that we can promote a more realistic understanding of mental illness. This is central to being able to provide tangible support to people who experience mental health difficulties.
With our work, we want to contribute to promoting a realistic, balanced, reflexive and normalised way of talking about mental health difficulties. We believe that talking about mental health can make a huge difference in many people’s life. Raising awareness of mental health difficulties will significantly contribute to providing support within our community.
3 - Help people connect with their emotional experience
More often than not, our emotions are perceived as illnesses rather than normal and appropriate responses to our individual life circumstances.
At the Resilient Wellbeing Clinic, we want to help people develop an awareness of how they feel and be comfortable with whatever that might be. It is ok to feel sad, angry, scared, anxious or whatever they might feel. There is not such a thing as a bad emotion.
Emotions are an intrinsic part of being human, and it's central for our wellbeing to be able to recognise and express them without being judged or criticised by ourselves or others. Not acknowledging or expressing our emotions won’t make them go away, but it might actually lead to the development of physical symptoms, insomnia and a general sense of unhappiness and discomfort.
Further, in our work, we emphasise the importance of recognising and observing bodily felt emotions and states that might have never been consciously acknowledged by the person but viscerally experienced.
Everything we experience is felt through and responded to by the body. We want to help people be comfortable in expressing and embracing their individuality and emotions and become who they truly are.
4 - Work with the link between mind & body
Our mind and body are connected through the same nervous system.
There is significant and increasing evidence on the benefits of integrating mind and body for the purpose of living life more fully, as well as on how emotional trauma is stored in the body and can be healed through it. Despite the importance of this, mental health and psychological services tend to focus only on the mind and underestimate the impact and value of using the body in psychological therapy. At Resilient Wellbeing Clinic, we are very keen on helping people develop a deeper awareness and connection, not only to their minds but also to their bodies.