Ariadnes Thread counselling

Ariadne’s Thread ethos   Stories are important, who and how we have become the people we are. The journey of our life is important. Along our way we pick up things and bring them along, a bit like loading up our backpack or case when we go on holiday. We choose paths and alleyways, sometimes finding ourselves lost or in a dead end. Ariadne’s Thread counselling is a chance to enter the pathway of the labyrinth of our lives and with the knowledge that like Theseus going to confront the minotaur, someone is holding the thread to help us find the way out again. (If you don’t know the Greek Myth of Theseus and the Labyrinth a version can be found here). I am Gestalt trained counsellor/ therapist who works in a creative way to offer help working with individuals looking for a counsellor or mentor. Much of my work has been around people who have identified as neurodiverse (Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD, ASD). Gestalt therapy is a very flexible way of working and is open to many of today’s dif...

Outside the city   There is an interesting theological relationship between The City and Outside of the City in many forms of spirituality.   Certainly, in the Judeo-Christian tradition in the Old Testament the distinction is inside the city is the place of structure, order and in this biblical case, the Pharisee (the Lawyers and Scribes). Perhaps historically the Pharisee’s have received a bad press, but the people in general wanting to stick within the biblical law (of Mosses) and needed some form of interpreted meaning of those laws into something that could be a lived practicality. In the case of the arrival of the prophet Jesus the challenge was what was the imperative for this interpretation?   For Him it was that Love trumped all.   Outside the City was the place of the Prophets and the Charismatics. It’s the wild place that Mosses finds the burning bush, the Israelites freed from Egypt enslavement spend 40 years with God, Jesus is driven out into to be tempte...