Louise Bartel, highly experienced UKCP accredited Child & Adolescent Psychotherapist, based in Whiteparish, Wiltshire.
Providing Integrative Arts Psychotherapy to children and adolescents.
Specialising in supporting young people with feelings of anger and aggression; anxiety; poor self-image; low self-esteem, identity anxieties; low-mood and depression; grief and bereavement; bullying issues.
Highly experienced in working with more complex issues relating to interpersonal trauma and abuse; Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and attachment difficulties.
Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy
The salamander is a mythological fire spirit. It is a small wingless lizard or dragon, which represents the element of fire.
As I consider the elements of earth, air, fire and water, I am continually drawn to that of fire.
Fire can represent qualities within us; strength, passion and radiance. However, sometimes the fire within can become distorted; resulting in anger, aggression and impulsivity.
In my therapeutic practice with children and adolescents I am often faced with distortions of fire; those of anger and aggression. Conversely, I equally find that many adolescents are needing to embrace their fire. Therapy provides the space and empowerment to connect with their inner fire, which will support them in building their self-esteem and a more positive self-image.
Therapy seeks to empower a young person to make changes that may bring a more comfortable way of being.
Symbolism of the salamander
““Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorise, traumatise and heal each other”
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