My name is Emma Starck and I am a qualified psychotherapist and counsellor based in Littlehampton, West Sussex. I can read Astrological Birth Charts and am trained in Family (Systemic) Constellations.
I am a qualified attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist. This type of therapy focuses on the attachments between people. The first attachments that anyone makes has a profound effect on future relationships.
I use family constellations to help awareness of one’s neural pathways that get laid down before birth . These pathways are plastic so can be changed with help. Family constellations help one to visualise a different neural pattern to work with in our day-to-day lives.
Background
My father was a medical doctor and my mother and 2 older sister were nurses, so I grew up with talks of different ways to help and heal the body. Being younger and not in the medical profession, I was able to observe and ponder some of what I heard.
I ended up teaching physics for 10 years as I was drawn to understanding the world. Guess I thought they had the body question figured out!
But then when I realised that teaching was of course dependent on the actual teacher (me) and the students being taught, I also realised that the physics’ theory that when observing an experiment this always changes it, I started being more interested in human dynamics than just pure Physics.
Fast forward another 20 years and 17 years as a practising psychotherapist, 9 years as a mother, as well as all the other many relationships that have taught me so much, I have discovered many methods of helping us navigate this strange world. I trained for 4 years at The Bowlby Centre studying attachment theory and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. I still use this as my foundation, but now also use astrology as well as Family constellations to help myself and all those I come into contact with as much as I possibly can.
I have over 17 years experience as a psychotherapist and over ten years experience as a teacher. I love helping people to untangle some of their unconscious processes that get stuck inside ourselves. Once we become aware of and acknowledge our hidden patterns we become more free to navigate through the realities of life and choose different ways to be in relationship with oneself and others.
My goal is for people to learn to be their own therapist or counsellor, to learn that their own inner being can guide them so that they can reach the springboard to finding the joy, freedom and growth everyone deserves in life.