Kamal Kirk Lock
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About me
I offer confidential, compassionate and non-judgemental psychotherapeutic counselling to help you to explore the difficulties you are experiencing and to have a clearer understanding of what you are going through.
My approach is Integrative Transpersonal which means I draw upon various models including Jungian, Gestalt, body and archetypal psychologies and psychodynamic theory, developmental theory, and neuroscience. The transpersonal includes working with myth and story, imagination, dream imagery and spiritual dimensions.
I give a place for the difficulties you might be experiencing, including them as a valuable part of understanding what might need attention. This can be described as a soulful approach, working with the expressions of your difficulty as a healer might work with symptoms to find insight for potential transformation.
Employing these approaches 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 facilitate self-exploration and to make sense of your experiences.
Getting Started
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As a first step you can call or email me to arrange the first meeting, this will give us an opportunity to discuss what is going on for you and how counselling might help you.
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It will also give you an opportunity to get a sense of what it's like to be with me and ask me questions that you may have about therapeutic counselling and my approach.
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Once you have decided if you would like to work with me we can arrange regular session times.
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Therapeutic counselling can be useful over a short term period for example 6 to 12 weeks where we might look at specific issues either for support or to explore potential resolutions or long term / open-ended for deeper therapeutic work.
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We can arrange what would work for you for example we could start with an initial 6 sessions and later explore whether this has been enough or if you would like to continue to work on deeper issues.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am a qualified Integrative Transpersonal Counsellor and I am about to qualify as an Integrative Transpersonal Psychotherapist, (November 2024)' 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 in training.
My professional work as a therapist began in 2010 where I facilitated therapeutic groups for people in recovery from drug addiction. In 2016 I extended this work to include individual face-to-face therapy working with childhood trauma and issues relating o identity and relational attachment.
In 2018 I moved into full-time private practice working one-to-one both online and in person and working more broadly with the issues and material that people who come to see me bring.
I have a background in martial arts both as a competitor and trainer. I have practiced Tai Chi, meditation and spiritual healing for over 30 years and in the last 7 years I have included mindfulness into my own practice and with the people, I work with. Where appropriate I bring some of these skills into the counselling and therapeutic work to assist with self-exploration and with being more grounded and connected. For example, using some simple techniques from Tai Chi can help with feeling more embodied and mindfulness can help us to pay attention to what is going on for us and what might want our attention.
I have experience of working in the following areas
- Stress and anxiety
- Working from a neurodiverse affirming perspective.
- Finding meaning in the problems experienced
- Relationship issues with self and others
- Loss of life meaning
- Bereavement and loss
- Family relationships
- Identity - Mixed ethnicity and culturally mixed identity difficulties
- Sexual Identity and sexuality
- Childhood related issues
- Guilt, shame and envy
- Addiction and compulsive behaviours
- Alcohol and substance misuse
- Major life changes and life threshold difficulties
- Depression, sadness and grief
- Suicidal thoughts
- Low self-esteem
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
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Fees
£80.00 - £100.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Fees are £80 for a therapeutic hour (50 minutes).
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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 life where 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 your 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 counselling and therapeutic work might offer you as a 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 (6 or 12 sessions) on specifically identified issues or longer term (open ended) for deeper therapeutic work.
Integrative Transpersonal Approach
I work interactively which means I draw upon various approaches including Jungian, Gestalt, body and archetypal psychologies as well as psychodynamic theory, developmental theory and neuroscience.
The transpersonal aspect of my approach includes working with myth and story, the imagination, dreams and imagery and spiritual dimensions.
Employing these approaches 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 in the aid of self-exploration and a deepening of 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 the kind of support we needed or perhaps they exist within the currant relationships of our personal or professional life. 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 relationship to our self and to others.
Soulful Counselling
Central to my approach is working with a soulful perspective. What this means is that we try to include a person's difficulties as a valuable experience, rather than attempting to simply 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 is in need of 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 the mere function of physical movement through walking. This is particularly useful to those who are drawn to the outdoors or who find physical movement personally 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.
