Areas Of Work

I work with individuals, couples and organisations - If you feel that any of the below interests you, I would be happy to meet with you or talk on the phone (my preferred form of communication).
You can either ring me on (from abroad, on T: 0044 -7968 113075) or from the U.K., on M: 07968 113075 .
You can also email me on info@sergebb.com  . Please don’t text me.

As I have already stressed, while much traditional psychotherapy sees the fixing of personalities as an end in itself, I recognise that many people need healing at a deeper level and that this cannot occur unless we learn to grow closer to our soul life and begin to tap into our capacity for feeling awe and inspiration, beauty, depth and meaning.  From this place, many problems may begin clearing up on their own and it becomes much easier to work with our dark side and confront our emotional difficulties and negative beliefs. So while I work with all the issues that ordinarily beset  any client who comes into psychotherapy - that is, with anxiety, depression, stress, trauma, abuse, Narcissistic and Borderline issues,  with people fearing life and death and having difficulty with relationships, etc - I tend to do so always out of a place of heart and soul.

In a word,  I  see the importance, as I said earlier, of clients opening their hearts and coming to recognise themselves as a soul. A soul with a material body; a soul with a personality. Yes, we all  have our neurotic problems and disorders of one form or another, but it is not who we are and I refuse ever to put a person into a box  solely marked by their symptoms. The core of each of us, I believe, is blessed. And clients appreciate being seen in this way. They find it gives them space  to view their  own wounds from a more enlightened perspective, not  so much as  an enemy but  more as a friend. Indeed, many  clients grow to regard their problems as being  very catalytic in helping them come closer to their own authenticity.

I work with people from different ethnic groups, classes and religions, some of whom are young adults just setting out on the adventure of life and who need  plenty of mentoring and coaching. I also work with people who are more deeply disturbed. I also specialize in seeing people who are consciously on a spiritual path and who may require spiritual guidance as well as psychotherapy. With some people, I may do deep regression work which may at times lead them beyond their personal 'biographical reality' and into human collective memories. There are times when very profound healings  can occur if some ancient  pre-this-life traumatic memory is accessed, re-experienced and its contents gradually integrated.

Because, for some clients, spiritual approaches such as meditation, prayer and general awareness training, serve to enhance  their recovery and speed up their capacity to work through their psychological issues, many clients attend my workshops, seminars and retreats where such processes are explored. While my core psychological training has been in Psychosynthesis, a transpersonally-oriented psychotherapy, I have also been influenced by other psychological and spiritual approaches, both Eastern and Western. These include  Carl Jung, the Gurdjieff work, the teachings work of A.H. Almaas; Buddhism, Shamanism and Creation Spirituality.

COUPLES PSYCHOTHERAPY

Couples work, to be effective,  needs to be  very subtle, for extremely deep and painful wounds can  often become activated by the onset of intimacy.  Many of us are secretly afraid of giving or receiving love. Also, it is easy for certain couples to become stuck in negative patterns and not know how to move on. So there may be occasions  where I may need to work at depth with one or both partners as well as seeing them as a couple. Also,  given that we are living at a time where many of our old ways of ‘doing’ relationships no longer work, couples often come for me for assistance in how they might ‘do’ their relationships in a new way! Such people may simply need relationship coaching.

Many relationships fail because people hold naïve expectations about them or  feel they should be easy and that one shouldn’t need to ‘work’ at them.  I do my best to remind people that these  notions are myths and so try and help them work at their relationships together. My long, three-hour CD on ‘Bringing Soul into Relationships’ (which is all about what makes relationships work and what makes them fail ), is recommended to many of the couples I work with.

CONSULTING WITH ORGANISATIONS

Here, my concerns are not so much with the ‘business objectives’ of organisations,  but rather  with their human face and the many different kinds of challenges posed by people working together and which, if unresolved,   may block or distort those objectives. Among the many inter-personal difficulties that I am called to look at, include those resulting from people:

  • having insufficient awareness of the effect they have on others (e.g., someone not knowing they are 'dumping' or being bullying).
  • being bad communicators
  • having difficulties working together with others as a team
  • living too much in their heads and not enough in their heart. (Hence relationship with others may be cold and decisions overly narrow and devoid of sufficient intuition)
  • being stressed because work brings up deep-rooted childhood fears
  • being stressed as a result of imbalanced lifestyles.(e.g., bad diet, no exercise, excess alcohol)
  • projecting their shadow (e.g. critical parent) onto their employees)

Here, my work consists of meeting with the team as a whole, asking them to fill in a questionnaire, meeting with each individual (once, or a few times as the case may be), and then designing a weekend or two-weekend seminar for everyone,  based on the nature of the organisation’s overall challenges, and designed specifically to bring greater harmony and resolution into  the group.