About
Background and history
The former Gaia Therapy Project started in 2018. This project was initially founded by Rebecca Esho Greenslade to provide affordable therapeutic services to the local community.
The project was discontinued in 2020 with remaining therapists becoming a collective in order to continue delivering low cost therapy to the community.
In 2021 Gaia Therapy Collective CIC was formed and has continued to help and support members of the community by providing therapeutic services on a free or low-cost basis.
Values
We are committed to community-based work which is informed by anti-racist, feminist, queer-affirmative, ecological and spiritual principles, and where everyone is welcomed and treated respectfully.
We aspire to cultivate a community and culture which challenges an increasingly neoliberal, capitalistic, transactional, and individualistic trend in psychotherapy.
We do this by foregrounding values of care, interdependency, equity, sustainability and community, recognising the intrinsic value of human connection and the environment.
We wish to support those aligned with us by creating intentional spaces for growth and healing.
Psychotherapy and counselling
Psychotherapy and counselling are an opportunity to reflect upon your life in a way that enables you to examine its difficulties, be challenged by different perspectives and gain understandings which may help you to engage with life more fully, with greater ease and with less struggle.
Gaia Therapy Collective CIC does not favour a particular therapeutic modality, however all our therapists foreground the importance of a trusting, compassionate and non-discriminatory therapeutic relationship from which to explore your life and generate your own meanings and understandings.
All of our therapists also align with Gaia’s values which see mental health as inherently entangled with the ecological, social and political environment in which we are situated.
This means that we may work with you to explore what is happening for you individually, but we do not stop there. We look at how systems affect us and the need for collective support and processing.