Rate Miguel Echeverria

Most of the people I work with are managing well enough on the outside and feel hollow, stuck, or at a distance from themselves on the inside. Often they have already tried a good deal, and something still hasn’t landed.

Rather than mainly interpreting your history, I’m interested in how it lives in you now: in your body, in the way your breathing changes when a certain subject comes up, in what happens between us while we talk. The patterns that get in your way — withdrawing, over-giving, pre-empting rejection, keeping yourself small or busy — were once intelligent solutions to an environment that required them. We look at them with curiosity rather than correction, and we go to the shame underneath them directly, in small enough doses that it can be felt rather than endured.

My foundation is depth psychology (Jung, Hillman), which holds that a symptom is rarely only a symptom; it is often a door. I also work with imagination, dreams and images, because the rational mind alone rarely reaches the place where change happens. Nothing you bring is treated as a defect to be corrected.

I tend to work well with people carrying long-standing shame, or the quiet conviction that something is fundamentally wrong with them; with those whose early life taught them not to need anything from anyone; with people in grief, or caring for ageing parents, or facing a midlife reckoning with who they have been. And often with people who want to integrate what they have already lived rather than collect another experience.

I am a British/Spanish psychotherapeutic counsellor registered with the BACP, working online in English and Spanish. Born in the Basque Country, raised partly in the US, then twenty years in London — enough moving to learn early what it costs not to belong. I came to this work through my own: years of depression and addiction in my twenties and thirties, a long search through retreats and ceremonies, and finally my own therapy, which let me understand myself rather than keep seeking the next experience. I trained for three years at Re-Vision in London in integrative transpersonal counselling. I am also a Somatic Experiencing practitioner, and a NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model) trainee.

Above any method, what I offer is a steady, attuned presence that listens to what you say and to what you can’t yet say. My work is insured and regularly supervised.