Gwyn Williams

I work weekly in a spacious therapy room at the Buddhist Centre, Canton, Cardiff.  I am also available for online sessions on Zoom.  

I have day time and early evening availability.

Life is inherently challenging and involves suffering. This pain is rooted in our attachments and craving. We can alleviate this suffering through bringing awareness to body, mind and speech.  

'Like a snake, my heart has shed its skin. I hold it here in my hand, full of honey and wounds.' - Garcia Lora

Core Process psychotherapy invites us to practice deep listening to self, other and to the relational field through adapting ancient Buddhist meditation practices in a therapeutic relationship.

• Finding a place of rest, resource and wellbeing from which to be in relationship

Clients develop the ability to deepen into a state of presence, a state of awareness, and bring this into relational mindfulness. This becomes the ground of enquiry into self and interpersonal process.

Mindfulness practices are integrated with western psychodynamic skills and counselling skills, resulting in a fully integrated approach.

• The power of present moment enquiry in relational work

The main focus is a cultivation of qualities of presence, compassionate awareness, and enquiry that we can bring to self and other within relationship, and the natural impact that this has on our relationship with others in the world.

'May we transform what hinders us, so it becomes a support' - Buddhist Prayer

• Practices for tuning into more subtle and non-verbal aspects of communication

The inherent spaciousness and openness of being can become a fundamental resource in our lives and an orientation within both meditation and how we are in relationship. It is through this spacious awareness intrinsic within our human condition, that we can work through emotional pain and suffering, and can find relief and release.

The heart of the therapeutic process is not to re-work or change our self-nature, but to perceive it as it is, and appreciate our inherent health.

• The value of mindfulness and how it can help create a safe therapeutic relationship and facilitate recovery from relational wounds

Psychotherapeutic enquiry takes place within the context of a relational field within which the state of consciousness of both therapist and client are not separate. Both therapist and client are on an inter-subjective journey of exploration in which their processes are interdependent. The psychotherapist learns to perceive the information that is communicated within this wider field, and to respond appropriately.

Core Process psychotherapy helps us to become aligned to the model of Self, Being and Source and to culvitate this within a being-to-being holding field.

"Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. We don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness, with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments."

- Charlotte Joko Beck

If you'd like to see if we might work together, I would suggest we have a 10/15 minute phone call so that we can say hi, and introduce each other.  In this way, you'd get a sense of how comfortable you might feel having sessions with me, and I'd learn a little about your processes.  

Then if we decide that we will work together, I'd suggest meeting once a week for 6 weeks initially, with a review on the 6th session to see if we continue and deepen into the work. 

The first session is around exploring who you are, your needs in therapy, and also for me to talk about a relational mindfulness modality in more detail.  We will also work in the first session on your embodied or somatic experience of yourself, so that you directly connect to your inner relationship with yourself.  

Working both in our emotions, feelings, thoughts and sensations and also disidentifying somewhat from them is a central part of this approach, as it helps you to gain a wider perspective of your difficulties, and helps you to work through painful experiences effectively.