Who We Are

Founder of Green Space Psychology, Jason Firth, set up this organisation in order to provide a service that is truly helpful to people who are struggling with their mental health or general-self-directness. As a qualified psychotherapist (MBACP) and trainee counselling/practitioner psychologist, he wanted to ground a service in the latest scientific evidence in understanding our complex emotional systems in the context of therapy and personal development.

The approach taken is centered around compassion,  and evidence-based effectiveness of Compassionate Mind Training (CMT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) developed initially by Professor Paul Gilbert. 

Life isn't easy... Problems with interpersonal anxiety and uncertainty or depression, on top of... difficulties relating to work, relationships and general health can become overwhelming. 

However, when it feels like we’re stuck in the difficulty, avoidant of it or thoughts and emotions keep looping round and round, we can support you to gain a deep awareness of your difficulties as well a way for you to find a sense of balance. A part of this could come through a deeper understanding of yourself, as well as tangible ways to feel and act differently. 

We put the science of
compassion at the forefront of everything that we do.

Compassion definition:  A sensitivity to the suffering of self and others with a commitment to try and prevent and aleviate it.

In the therapy process, compassion is linked to two psychologies which we aim to develop: 

1. The ability to understand, approach and engage with suffering and distress.

2. The desire and motivation to alleviate suffering, uproot its causes and seek to prevent suffering in the future.

As well as philosophy, the above is rooted in evolutionary neuroscience, as it triggers the human affiliative (safe and social) state, outlined in the polyvagal theory.