Iskra Lindner
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About me
As I witness my clients transform, I am reminded of kintsugi - the ancient Japanese art of mending pottery with gold. To survive emotional pain, loss, and trauma, we fragment parts of ourselves, that we can disown, or see as flawed, broken or wrong. The process of therapy is reclaiming these parts, seeing their pain, acknowledging their wisdom. We cultivate self-compassion and understanding, which results in more harmonious and satisfying relationships, helps us get unstuck, opens up space to be creative in how we see the world and achieve our goals.
I am a relational, integrative therapist and have been trained to work with most major psychotherapeutic modalities - neuroscience informed relational psychoanalysis, psychodynamic, humanistic, body psychotherapy, Gestalt, existential and trauma informed therapy. I have received additional training in supporting clients through infertility, IVF and pregnancy loss. This allows me the flexibility to tailor my approach to each client and their specific presenting issue. However, what's most important for me as a therapist is to connect with my clients on a human level, to really see the world from their perspective. This includes understanding and honouring neurodiversity.
How will that translate in the therapy room? We will be paying attention to your moment-to-moment experience on a somatic, emotional, relational and cognitive level. We will be listening to what your body is trying to tell us while using mindfulness and meditation techniques. We will explore the past, while focussing on how it may manifest in the present. And as humans are, by nature, social we will be looking at the larger societal context, while keeping in mind the unique matrix of diversity that makes you, you. I will often work with emerging images and metaphors, tapping into right-brain to right-brain communication.
Training, qualifications & experience
I trained at the Minster Centre in London, one of the most respected integrative psychotherapy courses in the UK and in Europe. The depth of my training allows me to work with a variety of presenting issues - anxiety, depression, childhood trauma, suicidal thoughts, loss and bereavement, relationship problems, pregnancy loss, birth trauma, infertility, trauma related to neurodiversity, issues with difference and belonging.
In my previous life, I was an advertising creative and a creative director and lived and worked all over the world. This helps me understand the demands of busy, fast-paced careers and multicultural environments and the particular challenges of balancing all that with our personal lives and mental health.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£80.00 per session
Additional information
My fees vary between £70 and £80 depending on the time and location.
The initial consultation lasts 50 minutes. This would give us both a chance to experience working together and is charged at my regular fee.
Some clients prefer to have a brief Zoom call first. Please make a request, if that is your preference.
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