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Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counselling for the Whole Self.
Where the body remembers, the psyche speaks, the mind embodies — & the self integrates.
We weave talk therapy with somatic intelligence and unconscious exploration to unveil your story at the intersection of body, mind, and Self—always at your own pace.
Honoring your unique context:
Embracing the complex mosaic of your experience, culture, conditioning, identities, and neurodivergence.
Welcoming your full emotional range:
Making space for sadness, shame, anger, and grief—where nothing is too much or too little.
I provide a compassionate, robust space to gently hold what is. Together, we navigate past and present, noticing patterns and challenging where appropriate—helping you claim authorship of your story and cultivate grounded resilience, authenticity, and true psychological freedom.
We make space to express the wholeness of your being, what is alive within you. We may use writing, metaphor, image making, sand tray, constelations, somatics, as vital tools to bypass the rational mind — when it feels right. By bringing awareness and integrating fragment parts of Self —once suppressed — we expand the capacity to be present and the vivacity of experience in the here and now.
Three Pathways to Reclaim Your Story
1:1 Therapy
Together we’ll gently explore the parts of you that long to be seen and heard. Somatic creative methods (images, word, visualizations embodiment) are available when words feel too small. You are welcome here, just as you are.
You may be experiencing:
❋ Anxiety, depression, overwhelm, or feeling "stuck" ❋ Loss of meaning, pleasure, or direction ❋ Healing trauma ❋ abusive relationships
❋ Big life changes ❋ Neurodivergence / Identity crisis ❋ Self-esteem issues
Creative Groupwork
Starting: 24th September
Limited to 8 participants
A 3-month creative journey to explore your depths, build a self-therapeutic practice, and connect with others.
Live workshops + self-paced practices rooted in felt-body awareness, creative experiments and self-inquiry. We cultivate a sacred space of collective, side-by-side inner exploration—where safety deepens, authentic expression flows freely, and you learn to navigate your inner world.
Therapeutic Coaching
Combines therapy and coaching approaches to help expand self-awareness, expression, inner resourcing and freedom of choice — transcending outdated or externally given self-constructs and limiting beliefs.
Aims: ❋ Shadow work ❋ Confidence / Assertivity / Boundaries ❋ Inner child reparenting ❋ Life Choices ❋ Creativity ❋ Relationships ❋ Empathic Communication ❋ Emotional Intelligence
Our values
Whether we are working through trauma, anxiety, depression, or a sense of disconnection, my goal is to facilitate a return to your True Self, honoring the multitudes within your being. In this intersectional and neurodiverse space, we work at your own pace to root your life in sovereignty, centered presence, and authentic expression.
Sovereign Freedom
The Deep Self
Navigating trauma and psychological challenges at your own pace. Intertwining somatic wisdom, unconscious exploration, and relational depth according to the client’s choice.
Intertwining talking therapy with somatic creative processes to move beyond the constrains of the rational mind as a bridge to the true self and unity of being.
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Belonging
Respecting an intersectional mosaic of diverse identities and lived experiences, where every history is seen within its context and intergenerational patterns.
A BACP-accredited trauma informed practice of clinical integrity, providing a safe boundaried container necessary for deep transformation.
I support individuals in moving from psychological distress and nervous system overwhelm toward a balanced inner life enriched by greater choice, resilience, and meaning. My practice is built on the belief that while we often navigate life through our thoughts, true transformation resides at the intersection of body, mind, and soul—bridging the conscious and unconscious while honoring your unique context, intersectionality, and intergenerational patterns. Grounded in a five-year Master’s in Clinical Psychology (ISPA, Lisbon) and a Level 7 Diploma in Integrative Counselling Using the Arts (IATE, London), as a BACP-accredited practitioner I offer a secure, robust container of integrity and safety for deep healing.
Hi, I’m Rita Cotrim PGDip, MBACP
Integrative Counsellor & Psychotherapist using the Arts
Therapy doesn’t just help:
❋ Anxiety / Panic Attacks
❋ Depression
❋ Healing Shame
❋ Grief
❋ Confidence, self-esteem
❋ Healing Bullying & Abuse
❋ Coping with Life Changes
❋ Neurodivergence
But it also explores
❋ Journey of individuation (JUngian)
❋ Integration & Coherence of Self (Parts work & Gestalt)
❋ The Shadow Self (Jungian) & Boundaries
❋ Emotional Inteligence and Relationships
❋ Inner Child Work
❋ Mindful Practices for self-regulation
❋ Healing attachment wounds
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I change.”
CARL ROGERS
What clients are saying
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"I felt finally in touch with my shame and I couldn't go back anymore..."
Combines traditional talk therapy with mind-body-feeling expression through art-making. Gentle, projective, creative techniques, starting from an image, music, gesture, clay, writing, puppetry, movement or other creative activities to explore your internal world and parts dialogue with the support of the therapist empathic listening and witnessing.
Please email to join the waiting list.
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"This is the first relationship ending that doesn't hurt."
Combines therapy and coaching approaches to help you expand self-awareness, inner resourcing and freedom of choice — transcending outdated or externally given self-constructs and limiting beliefs. Outcomes include enhanced emotional communication, self-acceptance and resilience which leads to greater clarity, renewed meanings and purpose in life.
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"How art-therapy has helped me"
Helps uncover and process hidden emotions using creativity as a vehicle and safe container. Words, play, sand, drama, sound, or allow feelings to be expressed and access what words cannot, providing relief. Sessions may include both talking and creative activities, with the choice to engage in creative tools always left to the individual. No artistic skill is needed to benefit from this.
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“It’s strange to say but I’m happy. It felt like I found a missing piece of the puzzle. And I finally felt I feel into place.“
In the Creative Connection process participants explore a sequence of art experiences expressing their feelings non-verbally from the felt-body experience, that leads them into their inner realms.
