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 difficulties. Perhaps if we are not able to say what we want, we can create a piece of art, writing or some other representation of what we need to express.


The Greek myth of the Labyrinth (Maze) containing the minotaur is set on the island of Minos where a monster, half-man half-bull, is kept in a labyrinth outside of the city. Every seven years several of the young people are sent to the monster never to be seen again. The devious twists and turns of the labyrinth keep the monster at bay and the city safe. Theseus, a young hero, decides to confront and defeat the monster by entering the labyrinth alone. Ariadne, who is in love with him, gives him the end of a red thread and keeps the other end. She has no doubt he will defeat the monster within but is worried he may not be able to find his way back out of the labyrinth. The thread is the cord that connects him to the entrance and allows him to return.

You can read more here:
https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/myth-of-theseus-and-minotaur/

The story in this instance is a metaphor suggesting that therapy can be like entering the labyrinth of our complex lives to confront the minotaur’s we hold within. The therapist ‘holds’ the thread to make sure that we can find our way out.

Labyrinths are very old symbols and can have many meanings, both religious and pagan. A maze is a series of pathways developed to lead the explorer astray. A labyrinth is a winding journey to the centre and back. You may like to ‘walk’ one of the many grass or drawn labyrinths around the rural parts of the West Country.



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Counselling:                               £40 / hour
Academic Mentoring:               £35/ hour
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Email: chris@arianesthread.uk
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