Individual Therapy with Giselle Monbiot

Begin Your Personal Healing Journey in a Supportive, Confidential Space.

Begin Your Personal Healing Journey in a Supportive, Confidential Space

I help people gently explore what’s going on beneath the surface of their lives: emotionally, physically, and mentally. This helps them start to feel more connected, calm, and in charge of how they live.

Often, the way we react to life, whether it’s anxiety, overwhelm, people-pleasing, shutting down, or feeling stuck, comes from old patterns we developed to protect ourselves. These patterns usually stem from past experiences, sometimes going all the way back to childhood. They’re not your fault. But they might be holding you back now.

In our work together, we look at both what’s happening in your mind (your thoughts, beliefs, and inner stories), and what’s happening in your body (the tension, sensations, and emotional energy stored there). I use a blended approach where I flow between breathwork, somatic awareness, Advanced EMDR for deeper trauma work, and gentle therapeutic inquiry. You can begin to process what hasn’t yet been processed, release what’s no longer needed, and respond to life in a new, more empowered way.

This is about reclaiming your power, not through blame or force, but through understanding, presence, and choice. It is about moving from reaction to response, from survival to aliveness, and from disconnection to deep, inner clarity.

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Transformative Therapy

Are you feeling overwhelming emotions but cannot work yourself through them? You feel so fed up with trying to avoid the uncomfortable sensations that leave you feeling so tired. You would love to feel more confident and to live more authentically. You are looking for compassionate support to get you through this, to regain your inner strength again.

Work with me to stop the endless cycle of stress, regain control of your emotions, and start feeling excited about life again. My clients often report having more energy and a deeper connection within. This means they feel more able to cope with the challenges of life. I have a compassionate and gentle approach, with the desire to empower you to start enjoying your life again. As a Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner, I bring deep presence and compassion to the sessions you will experience with me. To learn more about this powerful approach created by Dr Gabor Mate please read here.

Understand the Origin Behind Behaviour and Emotions

Work with a therapist with solid training, 26 years of experience and a proven track record of enabling her clients transform their lives and reach their full potential.

What My Therapy Offers:

  • An opportunity for you to gain insight to the overwhelming sensations you hold within yourself and to connect to the other possibilities ready for you to express.
  • An interactive and compassionate approach which promotes healing from unresolved emotional wounds which reconnects you to yourself so you can feel you belong in your own skin.
  • Empowering tasks to be completed between sessions with email support for guidance if needed.
  • Learn powerful calming tools that you can use anytime, anywhere which means you can take control of any challenge that life throws towards you.
  • Learn powerful mind calming meditation and mindfulness techniques. I will create your own bespoke audio meditation for you to listen to anytime you need it.
  • Transforming sessions with me, either at my practice in Kingston Upon Thames face-to-face, online or at a convenient venue.

The Four Pillars of Wholeness

My therapeutic approach is guided by four essential pillars that support complete wellbeing:

Self

The journey begins with understanding yourself. Through our sessions, you'll develop deeper self-awareness, recognize patterns that no longer serve you, and cultivate self-compassion. This foundation allows you to build authentic confidence and make choices aligned with your true needs.

Nature

Reconnecting with the natural world is profoundly healing. I incorporate nature-based practices that ground you in the present moment and remind you of your place within the greater ecosystem. This connection reduces stress, improves mood, and enhances your sense of belonging.

Spirit

Whether through mindfulness, meditation, or exploring what gives your life meaning, nurturing your spiritual dimension brings clarity and purpose. Our work together honors your unique spiritual path while helping you access inner wisdom and resilience.

Community

Humans thrive in healthy connection. We'll explore your relationships and how to cultivate supportive bonds that allow you to be authentically yourself. Learning to communicate effectively and set boundaries helps create a community that nourishes rather than depletes.

Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner

Compassionate Inquiry® is a psychotherapeutic approach created by Dr. Gabor Maté over several decades while working with both patients and retreat participants. It was further developed into a training program by Sat Dharam Kaur ND. This approach gently uncovers and releases the layers of childhood trauma, constriction and suppressed emotion embedded in the body, that are at the root of mental and physical illness and addiction.

When clients perceive the therapeutic relationship as a safe container, compassion and curiosity allow them to acknowledge and examine the traumatic events that happened to them as children, recognize the beliefs they internalized, and feel the emotions they suppressed. This contributes to the healing process.

Using Compassionate Inquiry®, both the individual and therapist unveil the level of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and body states that form the real message that words both express and conceal.

When we can release ourselves from the hold of these stories, a new way of being emerges, leading to spontaneity, choice, expansion and freedom.

Giselle is a certified Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner

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  • "Giselle is a wonderful facilitator with great energy and enthusiasm. Her knowledge and delivery of workshops in the area of stress management in the workplace has been invaluable."

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    Change Manager, King's College London

  • "Having work with Giselle on several occasions I can't recommend her approach and style enough! Every business would benefit greatly from working with her."

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    Holly Sorce, Change Management Consultant

  • "Giselle introduced us to concepts that are very useful on a daily basis and help us to deal with the challenges that life might throw at us. Giselle is also a caring, positive and inspiring practitioner and through her approach was able to guide me to create positive changes in my life. I am so grateful and I would highly recommend her sessions."

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    Veronique, Accountant

  • "I found the session very useful indeed. I believe that a lot of staff are in an almost permanent state of stress and we don't always recognise it nor do we treat it seriously enough."

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    Manager, Kingston upon Thames Council

  • "Giselle helped me to get to the root of my anxieties and to deal with the causes. Her support had an immediate impact - I came out of our very first session feeling much more positive..."

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    Senior Management, Public Sector

  • "Working with Giselle over the last few weeks has been life changing and incredibly transformational. It really has been a wonderful experience working with Giselle and I would highly recommend her."

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    Matt, Software Engineer

  • "Over the past few years, Giselle has supported our school in our mental well-being project. The parent workshop on helping a worried child and the staff INSET on mental well-being were full of great advice and techniques for parents and school staff. The children really enjoyed learning tips and strategies for mindfulness and relaxation, which they use at home and school. Giselle has a wealth of knowledge and a lovely way with both children and adults."

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    Deputy Head Teacher, St Paul's Primary School, Kingston Hill

  • "Giselle helped me to get to the root of my anxieties and to deal with the causes. Her support had an immediate impact - I came out of our very first session feeling much more positive - and that feeling very quickly helped me to perform much better in situations I would previously have found highly stressful."

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    Senior Management, Public Sector

  • "I found the mindfulness session which Giselle ran really helpful and insightful. It was interesting to hear the physiological reasons behind stress and gain greater understanding of the cumulative effect stress can have on an individual."

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    Management, Kingston upon Thames Council

  • "Giselle helped me face the stress blocks that were preventing me eating; thinking and talking out my stress and ultimately prevented me from being well. It's been an incredible and empowering journey. It's helped me nurture myself and be strong for my children. Time is a healer and the time I spent with Giselle was the best investment of my time."

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    Paramedic

  • "I have had the opportunity to attend Giselle's mindfulness and wellbeing sessions, some in group, some on a 121 basis. The classes and the documentation were very interesting, uplifting and so enjoyable. Giselle made us feel welcome and was able to adapt to all our needs."

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    Accountant

  • "Mindfulness session provided me with some useful tips on how to get a little bit of time for myself away from the pressure's that we face at work."

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    Manager, Kingston upon Thames Council

  • "Change is hard and people find it stressful, having someone to help alleviate that stress and give staff strategies to support themselves is invaluable and makes a tremendous difference not just in the moment but on an ongoing basis."

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    Consultancy

  • "The way you combine teaching and counselling, using your own intuition and tailoring the content of what you want to teach to the very real needs of each individual person, is really quite unique."

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