Nerissa Mauricio - Therapeutic Counsellor

About Therapy

Experiencing a crisis, feeling isolated or misunderstood?

Interested in exploring patterns you’ve noticed block your efforts?

Feeling lost or that you are yet to discover who you are?

Allowing yourself the gift of space and time to take a deeper look into the aspects in which you feel stuck or disempowered, can stimulate the real change you desire.

I offer a non-judgemental, confidential setting in which together we can bring attention to all that troubles you and explore new possibilities.

This is an inclusive, sex positive, queer and kink friendly therapeutic space; where issues of belonging, purpose, relationship, gender, sexuality, diversity and intersectionality are welcome.

My approach is to journey alongside you here and make meaning of your experiences, honouring the uniqueness that you bring.

Therapy sessions can help with…

Stress & Anxiety

Panic Attacks
Social Anxiety
Overwhelm
Disturbed Sleep

Depression

Low-Self Esteem
Confidence
Motivation

Anger

Rage Response
Self-Harm
Self-Sabotage

Relationships

Disharmony
Separation
Lonliness
Family Issues

Fear & Phobias

Irrational Responses
Obsessions
Compulsions

Abuse & Trauma

PTSD
Accidents
Sexual Assualt
Sexual Abuse
Domestic Violence

Grief & Loss

Bereavement
Mid-Life Crisis
Miscarriage
Separation

Addiction & Food

Substance Abuse
Compulsive Behaviour
Eating Disorders

Identity

Cultural & Social Issues
Adoption
Gender
Sexuality
Body-Dyspmorphia

Work Related Issues

Assertiveness
Communication
Bullying
Conflict
Burn-out
Redundancy
Retirement

Personal Development

Feeling Stuck
Making Choices
Finding Purpose
Spiritual Crisis

Health Related Issues

Chronic Fatigue
Insomnia
IBS
Chronic Pain
Disability
Sex
Infertility
Menopause

Integrative Transpersonal Therapy

I use Developmental, Analytic and Humanistic perspectives with a soulful approach to help us to understand what is happening for you in the here and now.

This will involve looking at your childhood, family history, your environment and the relationships which have informed your current experience.

You will be invited to access your unconscious using images, metaphors, dreams… and by any creative means that resonate with you, be it written word, poetry, art, music…

We will bring attention to what is unspoken but held in the body, using movement and breath-work.

I trained at Re-Vision and initially practiced at their Low Cost Counselling service for three years. I have now been in private practice for four years, in Forest Gate, East London.

Influences include; Jung, Winnicott, Hillman, Gestalt and Somatic practices.

I’m a member of the BACP and UKCP and subscribe to their practice policies and standards.

Sessions

I offer long-term and short-term, open-ended and time-limited therapy

In person sessions are available; Tuesday - Thursday in Forest Gate E7, 10am-5pm

Online sessions are accessible via Zoom; Monday - Friday 10am -6pm

Sessions are 50 minutes long and are £70

Initial Meeting

If you are interested in sessions, I invite you have a brief introductory chat over the phone. This is will last around 20 minutes and will give you the opportunity to ask any questions around sessions and speak a bit about what brings you here.

Please get in touch and let me know your availability so we can schedule a time for a chat.

Our first session will give us the opportunity to meet one another and see how it feels to sit and talk in person.

I will gather some back-ground information, to start to have a picture of what has brought you to therapy and what you imagine you would like to get-out of the process.

We can discuss any concerns you might have, previous experiences of therapy and what your expectations are now.

By the end of our first meeting you will have an understanding of how we can work together and what that might look like.

If you then feel you would like to work together, we will form an agreement to continue.

About Me

I am active in the sex positive, queer community in London. Dance, movement, music and community are vital to me as a path of self-expression and healing.

Before training as a therapist, I studied Landscape Architecture and worked in an environmental design consultancy.

I’m interested in the way in which our surroundings and community touch upon our human experience; how our relationship to our environment intersects with our sense-of-self and place in the world and our beliefs.

My time in the private corporate sector provided me with insight into how the soulful and creative parts of us that can become lost or fragmented and yearn to be be recovered and re-woven back into our lives.

I grew-up in rural Wales where my experience of nature as a holding environment, has led me to grow an interest in Eco-Psychotherapy and how it can offer us connection back to self.