Kamal Kirk Lock
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About me
I offer confidential, compassionate, and nonjudgmental psychotherapy or counselling to help you explore your difficulties and better understand your situation.
I am trained in the Re-Vision approach to soulful psychotherapy, a style that is also integrative transpersonal. This means I draw upon various models, including Jungian, Gestalt, body, archetypal psychologies, psychodynamic theory, developmental theory, and neuroscience. The transpersonal aspect involves working with myth and story, imagination, dream imagery, and spiritual dimensions.
A soulful approach to psychotherapy honours your difficult experiences, viewing them as essential for understanding what needs attention and incorporating them into the healing process.
Using these approaches improves my ability to address the unique needs of those who seek my help. I work with compassion, providing a balance of support and challenge to encourage self-exploration and assist you in understanding your experiences.
Getting Started
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To begin with, please feel free to call or email me to arrange our first meeting. This will allow us to discuss your experiences and how psychotherapy might help you.
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It will also give you a sense of what it's like to work with me and allow you to ask any questions you may have about psychotherapy and my approach.
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Once you’ve decided whether you’d like to continue, we can set up regular session times.
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Psychotherapy can be beneficial in a short timeframe, such as 12 weeks, allowing us to focus on specific issues for support or explore potential solutions. However, it can also be long-term and open-ended for a deeper therapeutic engagement.
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We can create a schedule that works best for you. For instance, we might start with 12 sessions and then determine whether that has been sufficient or if you would like to explore more complex issues.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified Integrative Transpersonal Counsellor and Psychotherapist. I trained at the Re-Vision Centre for Counselling and Psychotherapy - Psychotherapy with a soulful perspective. I am a registered MBACP counsellor and a UKCP-registered psychotherapist.
I began working with psychotherapeutic interventions in 2010 as a therapeutic group facilitator supporting individuals on their journey of recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.
In 2016, I worked as an integrative transpersonal psychotherapeutic counsellor and group facilitator in a drug and alcohol rehab rehabilitation Centre in London and ran a small private counselling practice.
In 2018, I began working exclusively in private practice as a therapist.
I also have a background in spiritual healing, meditation, consciousness, exploration, lucid dreaming, and martial arts.
I have experience of working in the following areas.
Beginnings
- Early wounding and childhood trauma
- Family of origin and early relational wounding
- Childhood sexual trauma
Transitions
- Bereavement and loss
- Loss, grief and relationship endings
- Existential issues
- Loss of meaning
- Blocks to growth and achievement
Working soulfully within diversity
- Working with a Neurodiversity of affirming perspective
- Working with the intersection of racial heritage and neurodiversity
- Re-viewing the Neurodiverse experience; mapping the journey from other to different
- Re-viewing the experience of a mixed ethnicity heritage
- Working with a mixed heritage wounding and racial trauma
- Racial wounding and marginalisation
- Identity and issues of belonging
- Race, ethnicity, and colourism
Working soulfully with:
- Major life change
- Addiction and substance
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Suicide ideation
- Low self
- Sexual trauma
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
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
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£80.00 - £150.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Fees are £80 for a therapeutic hour (50 minutes). Organisations £150.
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I have sessions available mainly in the day time and some in the evening
Further information
Life Struggles Loss of Meaning
There are times in our lives when we encounter difficult and challenging experiences. You might be struggling with difficult feelings such as fear, sadness, anxiety and depression. You might have experienced a challenging life upheaval, such as a relationship coming to an end, loss and bereavement, mid-life and growing older, or feeling uncertain as to what the future may hold for you. You may be experiencing a loss of meaning in your life. These can be difficult thresholds to pass through, which can feel isolating, frightening, and difficult to make sense of.
Identity Race Sexuality and Bi-racial Identity
You might be encountering problems relating to your self-identity and place within your family, community, or the wider society. These difficulties might be related to racial identity, sexual identity or difficulties with family relationships. You might be struggling with issues related to being of a bi-racial or culturally mixed identity. You might be concerned with the perception others have of you and so struggle with finding a sense of self-expression that is more true to yourself.
Addictions and Compulsive Behaviours
Are you having difficulty with compulsive and addictive behaviours and need a space to talk about this? You might want to experience what counseling and therapeutic work might offer you as support for your recovery from drugs or alcohol.
Compassionate Counselling
If any of the above describes what you are experiencing, you may need a confidential space to talk about these difficulties, some of which you might have been holding for a long time. I offer confidential, compassionate and non-judgemental counselling for you to explore your experience and to make sense of what you are going through. I can work with people wanting short-term sessions (12 sessions) on specifically identified issues or longer-term (open-ended) for deeper therapeutic work.
Integrative Transpersonal Approach
My integrative approach means I draw upon various approaches, including Jungian, Gestalt, body, and archetypal psychologies, psychodynamic theory, developmental theory, and neuroscience.
The transpersonal approach includes working with myth and story, imagination, dreams and imagery, and spiritual dimensions.
This way of working enhances what I can offer in a way that meets the particular needs of those who come to see me. I work compassionately, offering a balance of support and challenge to aid self-exploration and deepen self-knowledge.
Relational
Much of the difficulties that people experience are relational, meaning that they arise out of our contact with others. Sometimes, these difficulties stem from the background of our early life, where significant relationships may not have given us the kind of support we needed, or perhaps they exist within the current relationships of our personal or professional lives. Working with the relationship between myself and those who come to see me allows us to explore the feelings that arise between us. This can be the basis for insight and the changing of old patterns of behaviour that prevent a more fulfilling experience in our relationship with ourselves and others.
Soulful Counselling
Central to my approach is working with a soulful perspective. This means that I include a person's difficulties as a valuable experience rather than attempting to remove them. In this way, we can begin to explore what the difficulties want us to pay attention to at a deeper level. We may then find a voice for something that needs expression, contributing to a fuller and more authentic experience of oneself. This offers an opportunity for greater integration and a deeper understanding of our personal soul journey.
Psychotherapeutic Counselling in Nature
The therapeutic process can be enhanced by being in a natural setting or by physical movement through walking. This is particularly useful to those drawn to the outdoors or who find physical movement enhancing. Movement can also be an excellent way to regulate challenging feelings such as anxiety and depression. Being in nature can be an effective way of coming into greater relationship with the environment, as we connect with it, we also help the process of being more connected to our self. If this is something that would appeal to you, I can offer counselling in the nearby woods and parks close to my practice in North London.
