What I can help with

Trauma

Bereavement

Depression

Anxiety

Stress

Anger management

Sexuality

Relationships

Addiction

Low self-esteem

Loss and grief

Life transitions and life changes

Personal growth

Identity issues

Work-related issues

Type of therapy

Bibliotherapy counselling

I became a therapist because I didn't really have a choice. Life sucked. It all seemed so pointless. Everyone else seemed to be doing just fine.

I heard therapists help. Do they? Muttering to myself that this is one expensive waste of time I decided to give it a try.

Nothing changed. I'm still myself. The same fears, the same scars. It feels different though. I'm less ashamed of the scars. Some of them I even like now. My fears have faded, a bit. That feeling of being heard, understood – of being able to be myself – something of that slips out, from the clinic into life.

Everything changed.

After a few years of therapy, with life getting better. I retrained as a therapist. I scaled back my career as a product manager in a software company and started out.

My experience began in a student placement in a residential care home working with children and young adults who had been removed from their homes by social services. I learned the depth and darkness of the pain we carry with us and how connecting to that pain brings growth that's beautiful, strange and powerful.

What I offer

Bibliotherapy is a creative arts practice that weaves stories and texts into therapy. It connects to the understanding that creativity is central to self-actualisation and growth, where stories function like dreams: expressions of unconscious material that can be explored safely.

I chose bibliotherapy because life is a story. Will I give you a poem for homework? Heaven forbid. Will we find echoes of your struggles in a tale? Will you look at your story in a new light? I hope so.

I may share a poem or passage that reflects what you're experiencing. Sometimes you'll bring something that speaks to you. Sometimes we'll explore the stories you tell about your own life. The bibliotherapy happens through our conversations, a way of using narrative and metaphor to access ourselves.

It's hard to explain without vagueness. Confidentiality. I can't tell another person's tale; I'll never tell yours.

Sessions cost £60 and last for 50 minutes.

Contact me

Yaron White

Professional accreditation & qualification