I am Marcos Frangos, the Counsellor at The Natural Practice. As we approach the end of the calendar year, I’d like to share here some themes that people have worked on in counselling over the last three years, and ways in which we work to help patients see the landscape of their lives.
My intention is to empower my clients.
To look at health in mind, body and spirit, to better understand how patients’ emotional lives impact their general health. I integrate several approaches including person-centred counselling with family constellations to help understand relationship patterns, values and overall wellbeing.
Patients bring emotional and relationship issues, chronic health issues, for example ME, Fibromyalgia, depression, Krohns, IBS, anxiety and panic attacks. They bring other concerns too: relationship concerns, life transitions, separation or divorce, elderhood, trauma, sexual and psychological abuse.
Innate in all of us is the ability to heal ourselves.
My role is to work alongside my clients to bring new perspectives and tools. I describe the work as holistic counselling as I’m interested in exploring what a person brings from their wider life: their family of origin patterns, relationships and belief systems, sometimes even patterns from wider ancestral traumas.
Ultimately, whatever it is that someone brings at the start of counselling, the purpose is often one of integrating the many parts of who we are to increase choices available. I often use metaphor, for example “Who’s driving the bus?” to better understand the parts of ourselves at play at any one time. “Healing the fragments of ourselves”, uses the practice of Kintsugi, as a way of understanding how we can integrate different life experiences.
Here's how a previous client experienced counselling “Flowering from within”:
”This type of counselling encouraged me to listen to parts of myself I had silenced, ignored, rejected or buried for a long time. It helped me accept the different parts and experiences that shape the person I am today.”
If you’d like to explore how counselling can help, call reception at The Natural Practice, and book a free 20-minute consultation call to explore how I can help.