Hi there, I’m Anika.
Welcome to Lifeward Counselling. Perhaps you found your way here because things are really hard right now for you or someone you care about. Often our day to day reality can feel a long way from ‘life in all its fullness,’ as the world’s brokenness comes at us and from us, and it can be a courageous step to consider counselling support.
Walking Together Towards Hope
Counselling is about meeting together wherever you are, confidentially and safely, sharing in your sorrows and struggles and walking together towards hope and life. I offer pastoral care grounded in the reality that Christ the Life-giver is present in our struggles and at work through them. Our losses, trauma, confusion, pain and sorrow all matter to God and are part of what he is transforming as he makes all things new.
Holistic Care Rooted in Faith
During counselling I aim to come alongside you, helping you to feel understood and to untangle experiences, thoughts, feelings, reactions and desires as you relate to others and to God. If you feel comfortable we can bring the Bible to bear on life, knowing that God is present as we meet and at work by his Spirit in the process. I have a holistic, relational and integrative approach, paying attention to the physical body as well as our emotional, cognitive and spiritual capacities.
Growing Through Relationship and Creativity
Counselling happens in the relationship we build through conversation, art and play. We may use tools from psychotherapeutic counselling and creative exercises as well as listening to the Bible, to pursue a greater self-understanding and growth in intimacy with God and with others.