Dr. Jason Holmes

I have been working as a psychotherapist in clinical practice since 2013. I feel privileged to help people find positive change and happiness in their personal and professional lives. I believe everyone is unique and has within them resources for growth, development and change. I work to facilitate this process of change by allowing the client to experience, from me, the quality of psychological contact and the core conditions of empathy, unconditional positive regard and congruence. Experiencing these core conditions can encourage a focus on feelings, senses, personal meanings and connection, so that the individual’s personal resources for change and development can be realised. I believe it is through understanding our internal world that we can more fully understand our outer reality, where the past is alive and dynamically active in the present. Our inner world is often full of meaningful relationships that are consciously known, unconsciously experienced and frequently defended against. In therapy, these current and past relationships can be experienced and understood through the prism of transference and counter-transference relationships. In my practice, I make use of both the real person-to-person relationship and the transference relationship to help clients understand themselves and facilitate positive changes, leading to more authentic and happier ways of being with themselves and others.