Counselling and Coaching in the Algarve

I offer English speaking Coaching in the Algarve and in person, on-site or on-line therapy, as well as short term solution focused therapy to help you quickly become re-centred again.  Coaching and counselling in English in the Algarve or online and is best for people who don't want to travel. On-line healing work is very effective and has proved its self during the recent pandemic.  Treatment of addictions and support and recovery coaching  based in the Algarve.  Home visits available as well as therapeutic solution focused support, help with different trauma related issues as well as grief and loss support.  I integrate alternative therapies and healing modalities to bring about healthy change and focus in your life. ​

Three Pillars of Healing

Coaching

Coaching

 My hope is to permit a loving transformational change that empowers people to be their highest self. This is done by  holding the space for them to be themselves and for me to witness and be there for them in this process. Love and inner peace are found by progressively removing the blocks and limiting beliefs we hold about ourselves and in doing so we connect with the treasure each of us holds within. I use Quantum Energy Coaching as a rapid way to bring about personal change and healing.
​The inward journey via a safely held space  identifies the behaviours in the outer layer (see illustration below) that are triggered from  the deeper  wounds (shame, shock, trauma, abandonment ...)  thereby allowing us the space to move towards a centred and happier life. This reconnects us with our Essence and the possibility to look and experience life differently. See illustration "Inner and outer layers of protection"

Inner and outer layers of protection

Essential Movement Practice

Essential Movement Practice

Learn to develop your inner resources  through  movement and embrace the simplicity of being Open... Loose... Natural... and Flowing. Incredible deep awareness can be reached when combining movement with a mind and body inquiry. If you are familiar with conscious movement then Essential Awareness classes, workshops or individual sessions could be prefect for you. For some people it is easier to move an express emotions through dance. I facilitate Open Floor Movement practice which requires a long intense supervised  training to become a teacher.  Classes are as much about facilitator to how to up regulate as well develop  resilience and confidence in our ability to cope and self regulate in a safe a therapeutic space.
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Body and soul a story of movement

Retreats and Programs

Programs & Retreats

Come to stay on a 27 hector farm in the hills of Southern Alentejo Portugal for one of many kinds of retreats we offer. We grow our own food organically and provide a back to nature environment. Our belief is that caring for ourselves ultimately extends to caring for the planet as well. So simply come here to decompress  or to have a therapeutic based transformation program provided by  qualified professionals in the field of healing and recovery. Find out more about the Turning Point program to help bring your life back to centre.

Retreats and deepening recovery

Working with co-dependency

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WHAT I OFFER YOU

Is a basic practice to live an  Open…Loose…Natural…Flowing…way of  life where you are fully conscious and connected to your inner wisdom and power.

I offer you these simple tools through individual sessions , workshops or classes. The work may combine meditation, conscious dance (Open Floor) for embodiment, Wild Heart Academy Tantra to help with trust, safety and intimacy, Learning Love® Institute coaching (for healing relationships) and Quantum Energy Coaching (QEC) to change limiting beliefs and create new empowering lives free from trauma and addictions.

ABOUT MY WORK

The reasons people seek out someone to help them work through their issues are as numerous as the therapies available today!  So if  you have got to this part of the site then you may be curious about what is "Awareness and Transformational Therapy"  is all about.

It is  about a relational engagement between you and me as equals.  In simple terms this is about how you can feel at ease and receive understanding and support to share anything you want and to risk knowing that this is OK and safe for you to do so.  To move on and get over a difficulty so that real healing and recovery happens is when some kind of awareness begins and perhaps a choice can then be made that was not possible before. This happens when both you and I are in the present moment  with no desire to really fix anything but to allow a greater awareness to come into the  space. It is found by being and not by doing!  This might sound strange but this way of being is very natural and in every day terms can be experienced just by been creative and forgetting "what, why, when and when".

There are some other simple ideas I feel are important and I wish to share them with anyone who honours me with their time.  We all need to be heard and given space to share what is real. That an environment of  connection, trust, safety and empathy can be created when we meet and that through the work of becoming aware of the barriers to peace a new energy and meaning can be applied to whatever old ideas and behaviours are persisting. I offer  you this and more when  you come to see me. It is only what I would want from someone else. I offer this therapy in the Algarve as an objective aimed at local and expat communities. 

All aspects of my  work are spontaneous, creative and designed to give people a deeper sense of awareness, love and connection towards themselves and others.  In the case of classes and workshops they are enjoyable and healing, with the aim of developing a profound love and consciousness that can extend fully into all aspects of your life.  I suggest "Skills for Life" that help ease the journey from the wounded emotional child state of immaturity to a state of loving  adult maturity, free from old patterns of protective behaviour. Some of these  protections may take the from of addiction, reaction and control, expectation and entitlement or compromise.

ADDICTIONS & TRAUMA

 Quantum Energy Coaching (QEC) provides a successful way to find relief and healing from past traumas. As a certified advanced practitioner and supervisor I use QEC to work on childhood traumas, addictions and abandonment issues. Within a short period of time clients can begin to feel significant release and freedom from their past issues and can cultivate a positive and balanced life with the capacity and space to intuitively handle situations that would have once triggered them or brought on a major anxiety attack or destructive way of coping. Many clients come to me because they have some kind of dependancy problem and are aware that there is an issue like a broken relationship that is triggering the need to reach out for someone or something else to ease the pain. These times often seem really hard to live through but if they are used as a path to healing then the risk of becoming seriously dependent or addicted as a comfort to the pain can then be released and a fresh new approach found to the situation. 

Finding resources to cope with addiction

​PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT 

To ensure I can provide the highest quality of  support to my clients I attend a professional supervision  lead by Dr. Salmon founder of  QEC. She is a qualified GP and gestalt psychotherapist.  I am in a supervision group for  Gestalt therapists working in the trauma and addiction field. My studies include a two year training as a Learning Love Facilitator. Two years training as a Tantric Live Coach specialising in one to one counselling. Two years of Open Floor Teacher training which is rooted in  Gestalt based client work. I am currently training to be a Family Constellations facilitator.

Professional supervision

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Check Out What People Say

"Its like  I have had a reset button pressed and a new software installed to replace all the out of date programs in my mind and free me from my gambling addiction"

​"I felt very safe and listened to in a way I had not experienced before" - childhood trauma
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"What Simon does in his dance workshops is very beautiful. For me it’s like magic”. - inner child workshop

"I found  that the teaching puts you  in touch with your soul and the real beauty of life" - ongoing group

"He listens and understands more than anyone I've ever met in therapy" - gambling addiction

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