Will Eckersley
About me
I worked for nearly two decades in the creative industries – and for a good amount of that while struggling with my own challenges. In 2013, I finally entered therapy and my life began to change. It was this profound journey that inspired me to become a counsellor and help others make similar changes.
During this transition, I worked with a number of different therapists and modalities, including: CBT, NLP, psychoanalysis, humanistic, couples therapy, art therapy, and IFS – before finding my home with transpersonal psychotherapy. I also explored other healing practices like: mindfulness, circling, groupwork, dreamwork, breathwork, yoga, tai chi, bioenergetics, acupuncture, all kinds of dancing, improv, anger release, voice coaching, men’s groups, consent, tantra, Taoism, Buddhism, shamanism, plant medicine, nutritional psychiatry, neurofeedback, light therapy…
As such, I took a holistic approach to physical, mental and spiritual health – encouraging different practices, and crucially learning when to persevere and when to surrender. Whether it’s medieval alchemy finding gold in the shadows, Proust being “healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full”, or Gestalt’s paradoxical theory of change – I slowly discovered that what’s in the way is the way... Let me walk with you into the shadows towards healing, as others have done for me.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are – Joseph Campbell
I'm a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy
(MBACP 404008). I trained at Re-Vision in Queens Park. Outside of private practice, I worked for several years as a volunteer counsellor at the Psychosynthesis Trust in London Bridge.
