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Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling for the Whole Self.
Where the body remembers, the psyche speaks, the mind embodies — & the self integrates.
We weave talk therapy with somatic intelligence and unconscious exploration to unveil your story at the intersection of body, mind, and Self—always at your own pace.
Honoring your unique context:
Embracing the complex mosaic of your experience, culture, conditioning, identities, and neurodivergence.
Welcoming your full emotional range:
Making space for sadness, shame, anger, and grief—where nothing is too much or too little.
I provide a compassionate, robust space to gently hold what is. Together, we navigate past and present, noticing patterns and challenging where appropriate—helping you claim authorship of your story and cultivate grounded resilience, authenticity, and true psychological freedom.
We make space to express the wholeness of your being, what is alive within you. We may use writing, metaphor, image making, sand tray, constelations, somatics, as vital tools to bypass the rational mind — when it feels right. By bringing awareness and integrating fragment parts of Self —once suppressed — we expand the capacity to be present and the vivacity of experience in the here and now.
Three Pathways to Reclaim Your Story
1:1 Therapy
Together we’ll gently explore the parts of you that long to be seen and heard.
Somatic creative methods (images, word, visualizations embodiment) are available when words feel too small. You are welcome here, just as you are.
You may be experiencing:
❋ Anxiety, depression, overwhelm, feeling "stuck" ❋ Loss of meaning, pleasure, or direction ❋ Healing trauma ❋ An Abusive Relationship
❋ Life changes ❋ Self-esteem
Creative Groupwork
Starting: 30th October
Limited to 8 participants
A 3-month creative journey to explore your depths, build a self-therapeutic practice, sovereignty and connect with like-hearted community.
Live workshops and guided self-paced practices rooted in felt-body awareness, creative experiments and self-enquiry through the Jungian lens. We cultivate a sacred space of collective, side-by-side inner exploration—where safety deepens, expression flows, and you navigate your inner world held by the circle.
Therapeutic Coaching
I help you align thinking, feeling and doing — clearing blockages, developing self-compassion, challenging
outdated patterns through a blend of creative therapy, structure and direct coaching to take space in the world unapologetically.
If you want: Relationships & Communication ❋ Stress reduction ❋ Taking action ❋ Balance & Structure ❋ Digital Detoxing ❋ Alternative lifestyles ❋ Individuation journey ❋ Entheogenic Integration and Self-development ❋ Creative mindful daily rituals
Our values
Whether we are working through trauma, anxiety, depression, or a sense of disconnection, my goal is to facilitate a return to your True Self, honoring the multitudes within your being. In this intersectional and neurodiverse space, we work at your own pace to root your life in sovereignty, centered presence, and authentic expression.
Sovereign Freedom
The Deep Self
Navigating trauma and psychological challenges at your own pace. Intertwining somatic wisdom, unconscious exploration, and relational depth according to the client’s choice.
Intertwining talking therapy with somatic creative processes to move beyond the constrains of the rational mind as a bridge to the true self and unity of being.
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Belonging
Respecting an intersectional mosaic of diverse identities and lived experiences, where every history is seen within its context and intergenerational patterns.
A BACP-accredited trauma informed practice of clinical integrity, providing a safe boundaried container necessary for deep transformation.
My practice is built on the belief that while we often navigate life through our thoughts, true transformation lives at the intersection of body, mind, and soul—honouring the uniqueness of your shared history, neurospiciness, and culture.
As a BACP-accredited practitioner, my work is safely grounded in my background in Clinical Psychology (ISPA) and my MA in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy, granting me the title of Integrative Counsellor using the Arts, awarded by the distinguished Institute of Arts and Education in London. This in-depth training demanded rigour from its graduates, preparing us to work safely with trauma while integrating several models—Gestalt, Psychodynamic, TA, and Jungian—so we can flexibly adapt to the unique mosaic of your lived experiences: your differences, environment & inherent power dynamics, identity intersectionalities, and intergenerational trauma.
Working with all dimensions of being human, I hold a particular passion for the unconscious (Jung), nature, and mindfulness, and I'm currently training in Hypnosis as another tool for change.
Rita Cotrim PGDip, MBACP
Integrative Art Counsellor & Psychotherapist
Therapy doesn’t just help:
❋ Anxiety / Panic Attacks
❋ Depression
❋ Healing Shame
❋ Grief
❋ Confidence, self-esteem
❋ Healing Bullying & Abuse
❋ Coping with Life Changes
❋ Neurodivergence
But it also explores…
❋ Journey of individuation (JUngian)
❋ Integration & Coherence of Self (Parts work & Gestalt)
❋ The Shadow Self (Jungian) & Boundaries
❋ Emotional Inteligence and Relationships
❋ Inner Child Work
❋ Mindful Practices for self-regulation
❋ Healing attachment wounds
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I change.”
CARL ROGERS
What clients are saying
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"I felt finally in touch with my shame and I couldn't go back anymore..."
Combines traditional talk therapy with mind-body-feeling expression through art-making. Gentle, projective, creative techniques, starting from an image, music, gesture, clay, writing, puppetry, movement or other creative activities to explore your internal world and parts dialogue with the support of the therapist empathic listening and witnessing.
Please email to join the waiting list.
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"This is the first relationship ending that doesn't hurt."
Combines therapy and coaching approaches to help you expand self-awareness, inner resourcing and freedom of choice — transcending outdated or externally given self-constructs and limiting beliefs. Outcomes include enhanced emotional communication, self-acceptance and resilience which leads to greater clarity, renewed meanings and purpose in life.
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"How art-therapy has helped me"
Helps uncover and process hidden emotions using creativity as a vehicle and safe container. Words, play, sand, drama, sound, or allow feelings to be expressed and access what words cannot, providing relief. Sessions may include both talking and creative activities, with the choice to engage in creative tools always left to the individual. No artistic skill is needed to benefit from this.
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“It’s strange to say but I’m happy. It felt like I found a missing piece of the puzzle. And I finally felt I feel into place.“
In the Creative Connection process participants explore a sequence of art experiences expressing their feelings non-verbally from the felt-body experience, that leads them into their inner realms.
