Create your light

“A responded to person is already a more positively alive one..its not that the interaction affects the individual and then makes him different its in the very ongoing of that interaction that he is already different”- Gendlin

A Warm Welcome to Ontic Psychology

You’ve arrived at a safe place where you can access to highly responsive, experienced, and professional psychological support for you and your individual life experiences.

I am Candice, the Director of Ontic Psychology. I am a qualified and experienced Counsellor and Psychotherapist, Researcher and Counselling Psychologist in training. I am currently completing the final stage of my doctoral study. I have over 12 years’ experience of working in the NHS and have experience of working in the private sector Care in Forensic settings in the Midlands. I have experience of disseminating my professional knowledge in UK media and television and have contributed to national campaigns relating to safeguarding the emotional health of vulnerable groups in the UK population. My personal ethos matches my professional one; I have a firm belief that kindness and compassion, warmth and openness are fundamental to any relationship, and I believe in the strength of the human potential. While your therapy will be tailored to your presenting challenges utilising an Existential approach, it will be rooted in the foundational principles of increasing your sense of personal agency, autonomy, and the ability to harness growth in your life moving forward. Therapy at Ontic Psychology will be exploratory and can be tailored to meet time specific therapeutic goals and desires or be open ended to create more meaning and purposeful engagement in your life and relationships.

Professional Credentials

  • Doctorate in Counselling Psychology DCPsych (in progress)

  • MSc Psychology GMBPpS British Psychological Society Accredited

  • MA Leadership and Management

Ontic Psychology proudly provides evidenced based Psychological Services dedicated to your wellbeing.

 How Ontic can support you

“Emotions are not just experiences; they feature as a reminder of what is important to us and the principles of which we live by”van Deurzen and Adams

Ontic Psychotherapy and Counselling can offer a wide range of therapeutic approaches for individual clients and organisations. This includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Person-Centred Therapy with skill and competence. However, the Ontic ethos is most aligned and rooted in the underpinnings of Existential Philosophy and the Existential therapeutic approach. The Existential approach to therapy has a strong evidence base, is deeply exploratory, non-judgemental, and relational. It takes a determined stance towards unlocking an individual’s ability to realise their potential and meaning making capacity and engage in conscious choice making ability, by placing the client at the centre of the therapy. The Existential approach is widely applicable and encourages an individual to feel empowered with a strong sense of self. Effective utilisation of the Existential approach can integrate painfully traumatic experiences into healthy ways to identify with yourself. It is widely acknowledged within Psychotherapy and Counselling that a committed approach to weekly psychotherapy sessions can produce the greatest therapeutic impact, however this can be altered on an individual basis to support your lifestyle. The sessions are typically 50 minutes long, during which time I aim to deeply engage in your narrative accounts of your challenges to best support you to navigate life moving forwards. Importantly, the existential approach advocates for a non-pathologizing illumination of you in your unique and wonderful lived world. Accessibility is key to successful therapy, so all clients have the option of having Psychotherapy or Counselling online, by telephone or in person. Ontic Psychology supports a caseload of international clients who access the psychotherapy and counselling service globally through the use of a range of video platforming tools.

Life can only be understood backward but it must be lived forward” Soren Kierkegaard

In person Psychotherapy and Counselling Sessions

50 minutes

Zoom and Telephone Psychotherapy and Counselling Sessions

50 minutes

Corporate and Leadership Performance Coaching or Media Appearances

Daily charge applies

Client Testimonials

Ontic Psychology can support you with the following issues 

  • Sexuality

  • Bereavement

  • Depression

  • Panic Disorder

  • Complex PTSD

  • Anger

  • Chronic Health Issues

  • Self Harm

  • Anxiety

  • LGBTQ+ Issues

  • Identity Issues

  • Career Change

  • OCD

  • Adult Developmental Isusues

  • Trauma

  • Negative Thinking

  • Panic Disorder

  • Corporate and Individual Performance Coaching

  • Relational Issues

  • Phobias

  • Motivation