Patrick Rampton

Patrick Rampton is a BACP-registered trainee integrative counsellor, working within The Awareness Centre’s low-cost counselling service in Clapham while completing an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling.

He offers a warm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk openly about what’s troubling them, without needing to present a particular version of themselves. His approach is collaborative rather than fixed: he takes time to understand each person’s individual experience, and what they need from therapy, before deciding how best to work together. That might mean exploring difficult feelings, recurring patterns, relationships, or past experiences still shaping life in the present.

As an integrative counsellor, Patrick draws primarily on relational and humanistic approaches, incorporating ideas from attachment theory, mindfulness and transpersonal therapy where helpful. He has a particular interest in addiction, anxiety, depression, loneliness and isolation, self-esteem, relationship difficulties, and loss and bereavement, and more broadly, in how earlier experiences shape the way we relate to ourselves and others.

Before training as a counsellor, Patrick spent twenty years co-founding and running a successful local business. Retraining wasn’t a rejection of that career so much as a return to what had always interested him more than the business itself: the people in it, and the patterns — in himself and others — that shaped how they worked and related. He brings to his counselling practice a strong belief in the capacity for growth and change at any stage of life, including his own.