02/09/2025
Meet The Team!!
We would like to welcome Cherry 🥰
Cherry is a counsellor, we asked her some questions and this is what she had to say...
What do you do?
I am an integrative therapist and EMDR therapist in training. I specialise in working with adults who have experienced trauma and loss. I tend to attract people who have been the strong ones in their families for too long, coping with lots of difficulties and finding that they can’t hold it together anymore. It is at this point that often people reach out, and precisely it is also at this point where we can explore in therapy what hasn’t worked, and how we can rebuild in a way that feels healthier.
My approach can be described as integrative, which means I choose from a range of theories and tailor my approach to each client’s unique situation. Having said that, I find the Internal Family Systems (IFS) approach really effective for trauma, and I often blend this in where appropriate.
Why do you do, what you do?
My pull to therapy training largely came from my own experience of having therapy in my 20s (and ongoing!). There was a lightbulb moment after a session where I went ‘I really want to be able to offer this to other people who are going through the same thing’. This was 15 years ago and it was the best decision I have made.
I truly believe in the power of therapy. Not only do I have first hand experience of how much it has helped me with my lived experience of grief and trauma, but I have seen this in my work with clients time and time again. I describe my work as not so much a job but more like a calling, to offer this therapeutic space to others.
When you don’t do, what you do. What would we find you doing?
I’m most likely having a cup of tea, lost in a good book! I have gotten into gardening recently, so in the summer you’ll find me checking on my tomatoes and beans, or looking up the next thing to grow. I also enjoy learning languages, and my inner child definitely likes to indulge in some Cantonese TV dramas from time to time!
What was the last great tv show, movie or book you watched/read and why did you like it?
‘When Breath Becomes Air’ by Paul Kalanithi- I am late to the party with this one, but I liked its candid look at death in the first person - as the author chronicles his journey from being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer in his thirties, to his final moments. The searching questions he asked, as someone faced with limited time, are ones that I think we should all answer. ‘What makes life worth living?’, ‘What does it mean to be fully alive?’. As a society we are not very good at talking about death, so I found this book an impactful read.
Learn more about Cherry via our website -
https://www.thecounsellingspace.info/cherry
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