Training, Qualifications and Experience:

I am a psychotherapist in the final stages of my training, therefore, I offer lower-cost sessions. I have been working In-person with adults as a volunteer counsellor for The Listening Centre charity, and privately as Eleanor Minney Resource. My pronouns are she/her.

I have experience supporting people with challenges including (not limited to):

• anxiety
• communication, expressing yourself
• confidence, self-esteem and self-worth
• depression
• grief and loss
• past trauma, traumatic experiences
• relationship issues 
• showing up as you are – particularly if you don’t conform to ‘norms’, expectations or assumptions
• stress
• spiritual emergence 
• uncertainty 

Mindfulness Based Core Process Psychotherapy (CPP for short) intends to help you to rediscover your inherent health and wisdom – your inner nature – that can get so obscured by the challenges and conditions of life. This perspective on experience comes from Buddhist Psychology and is informed by spiritual awareness practice. The approach of CPP is very much a ‘joint process’ – it relies on a commitment from both of us while we make sense of your experience, the particular challenges you are coping with, and what may be needed. I work in an organic and creative way, so each person’s therapeutic journey will be unique to them.

I am registered with the UKCP (UK council for Psychotherapy) and the Association of Core Process Psychotherapists as a psychotherapist in training, studying Mindfulness Based Core Process Psychotherapy for accreditation at the Karuna Institute.

While I am completing my training, I am offering lower-cost therapy. All my work is supervised according to professional and ethical requirements. These standards of care are of great importance to me, and are grounded in a Buddhist informed ethic of non-harm. 

I initially trained in Fine Art, before realising a therapeutic training was right for me. Personal and professional experience led to a Graduate Certificate in Humanistic and Psychodynamic Counselling, at Goldsmiths University of London (2018), followed by Professional Training in Contemplative Psychology (2018-2020). I’ve worked and volunteered in adult mental health settings, including charities in the community and in-patient wards.

What is ‘Resource’?

The word ‘Resource’ (in the name of my practice), is significant. I’m informed that Resource has origins in the Latin ‘to rise again’ and the Old French ‘a source, a spring’, to ‘relieve’ and ‘to recover’. As centuries passed, the word came to mean ‘aid’ and ‘help’ – in times of difficulty, a means of relaxation, or a source of strength, assistance or information. In Core Process Psychotherapy we consider ’Resources’ as internal or external sources of wellbeing. I have named my practice as such because I intend to embody and facilitate the true meaning of Resource in my work. The journey to discover ‘Resources’ is mirrored in Buddhist practice, and my own experience, such that without the mud there grows no lotus, and it is the shadows, difficulties and suffering that allow us to have the fullest experience of clarity, joy and beauty.

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