Blue Skies Philosophy

Quality

Blue Skies was formed to promote and provide access to quality psychotherapy, training workshops, life coaching and personal development in the Midlands. Blue Skies aims to enhance personal and spiritual well-being for individuals and communities.

Quality, safety and responsibility are a priority to Blue Skies. All work undertaken by Blue Skies will meet with and aim to exceed the standards set out by the BACP and UKCP codes of ethics. The director and her associates will not merely have sufficient qualifications and experience but have in excess of the requirements laid out by the accrediting bodies.

Blue Skies is based on a humanistic holistic philosophy and sees people as wholes rather than parts. We work from an non-exploitative, non-oppressive basis, with Person-Centred values and incorporating therapy and practice from Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Psychodynamic therapy and Cognitive Behavioural and Integrative disciplines.

Collaboration

Blue Skies believes that both people and their circumstances are unique. Whether for an individual or organisation this uniqueness is valued and an approach that works for them is developed around this.

Therapy is always a collaborative piece of work and a broad discipline which can cover individual counselling or working with a team to improve communication. The effectiveness of the work is directly related to the participation of the client.

Contact

We aim to help the client gain contact with themselves, their creativity, their dreams, talents, their feelings and their knowing of their experience whatever that is. Out of this arises a truth and a clarity.

Clarity

To reach satisfaction in our life it is important to have the awareness of self in order to know what we want. Blues Skies has a philosophy of raising awareness to empower the client in making choices: If we don't know what it is we want it is unlikely we will get it.

Clarity and awareness are essential to know in what direction we want to take action. We gain that awareness by contact with ourselves and often by clear communication with others.

Connection

Clients can expect that we will work openly and authentically in relationship with them. This in turn increases the client's ability to be in contact with themselves. Blue Skies is here to facilitate the client's connection with the material.

Communication

Communicating effectively first with ourselves and then with each other can bring about lasting positive change for ourselves and our communities.

Communication involves awareness and observation of what is. Before we can take action we need to observe and become aware of what is. Blue Skies aims to model a process of clear communication in the way it works.

Clear communication is something that can be learned. It is part of Gestalt philosophy to experiment, to try out different behaviours and find out from the results. If we do what we've always done we will get what we've always got.

Experimentation, looking at options, and regular evaluation and review of results are all ways that Blue Skies uses to ensure the quality of their service.