Processwork UK Practitioner

Carol Hardy

My style of working is warm and direct. I care about your life story and supporting you to unfold your experience, giving you time to explore how your life has been shaped and what this means for you, inviting you to go more deeply into your sense of who you are and living more fully from a place of curiosity, understanding and awareness.

 I live in the Forest of Bowland in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, surrounded by countryside. The land around my house is where I walk with my dog. It is more than somewhere to place my feet, it also offers me a chance to be absorbed into and by nature. 

I first heard of processwork in my mid 30’s, a while ago now! I had just finished studying for a postgraduate diploma in counselling and was looking for some answers about who I was. I started my formal journey with Processwork UK in 2016, attending a one year foundation course and went on to complete the diploma program.

 My sense of processwork is that it is a way of going beyond everyday experiences and belief systems, offering the possibility of getting to know what is underneath the qualities that disturb us and finding ways to transform this disturbance into information for change. Finding the qualities behind our everyday, lifelong and world experiences are both personal and collective and it can help not to do this alone. I am a collaborative therapist and am passionate about the ecology of being human.

 My early career was in the public sector. Firstly, as a youth worker, then community worker. I went on to work with older people for a decade. The thread of being a carer has been a constant since my childhood.

 I identify as she/her, I am bisexual. I work with individuals, couples and groups. I work in person locally. We can work in a room or go outside. I work both locally and internationally on zoom or the phone.

 You are welcome as you are.