Welcome to the web-site of Penny Kennington



Coaching, Counselling & Psychotherapy in Harpenden & St Albans

Life & Career Coaching

Presence-Centred Counselling

Integrative Body Psychotherapy

Personal Development

I offer a safe and confidential space for exploring your questions, difficulties or concerns, or your approach to life or work. Some people come with problems or difficult feelings, and others with a desire for personal growth or discovery, or to find their purpose in life, or with a desire to live to their full potential.

My Approach

I work with people both short and long-term. Sometimes there is something focussed and specific, maybe a crisis, or a particular issue at work, which resolves itself quite quickly. At other times, there are long-standing, difficult or deep-seated issues, entrenched patterns, behaviours or beliefs, often stemming from childhood, which will need more time and sensitive understanding before the person feels satisfied and ready to move on.

The approaches I draw on include embodied-relational, presence-centred, psychodynamic, process work, gestalt, bioenergetics and various forms of body psychotherapy and bodywork, such a paying attention to breathing and physical or energetic sensations, or tuning into a felt sense, or to images.  

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.  Thomas Merton

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