Renate Ridings
Understanding Ourselves and Others Through Psychotherapy & Counselling

"Understanding ourselves and others is rarely as straightforward as it seems."
Many of the ways people think, feel, relate, and respond to life’s challenges develop over time and often outside conscious awareness.
As a result, people may find themselves repeating familiar patterns in relationships, reacting in ways they do not fully understand, or struggling with difficulties that seem to persist despite their best efforts to change them.
Psychotherapy and counselling offer opportunities to develop greater awareness of ourselves, our relationships, and the experiences that shape us.
This website explores the patterns and ways of relating that develop throughout life, and how greater awareness can help us understand them more clearly.

“Many of the patterns we struggle with today began as intelligent ways of surviving — though they may no longer serve the life we want to live.”