Therapies
Jungian Analyst · Sandplay Therapy Educator · Psychotherapist
Heather Lesley-Swan finds the transformational links in a wide range of therapies in which she is skilled. Heather’s belief that we are all unique individuals means she implements clinical methods with a synergy tailored to her clients’ unique circumstances and needs. She respects the power of connecting to the unconscious through analysis and image created in sandplay, and also utilises many other psychotherapeutic techniques. She has the wisdom to encourage exploration towards solutions; her clients feel heard, understood and helped into healing.
Start Where You Are — with the Map and the Territory
We all carry an internal map—our beliefs, expectations, and assumptions about how life should be. But sometimes, the territory we find ourselves in—our actual experience—doesn’t match the map.
We may reach a point where something feels off. Our work no longer fits. Relationships feel strained. A sense of direction is missing. Sometimes we go in circles, repeating old patterns without knowing why.
This is where therapy can help. With support, we can explore the territory more honestly, understand our inner resources, and gently revise the map. When map and territory begin to align, the journey becomes more meaningful, connected, and fulfilling.
Heather draws on a range of well-researched and deeply considered therapeutic approaches—both verbal and symbolic, including Jungian Analysis, Sandplay Therapy, and trauma-informed methods—to support clarity, healing, and movement.
Whether you're navigating uncertainty, craving deeper self-understanding, or simply seeking to feel more at home in your own life, Heather provides a space to think, feel, and re-orient—with skill, warmth, and insight.
Working With the Resources Within and Around You
Using inner and outer resources, we can review, refine, recreate—and rebuild—our lives in meaningful ways.
When things are working well, the challenge is often to expand: to live more fully, access deeper joy, and bring forward more of our potential.
When things are not working well, the challenge is to adapt: to draw on different parts of ourselves, or to find new resources beyond what we currently know. Sometimes these valuable inner capacities are locked away, hidden beneath layers of habit, defence, or history. Other times, what’s needed may lie just outside of awareness—waiting to be noticed, claimed, or integrated.
Either way, we begin where you are. Together, we explore and uncover what wants to emerge. And over time, both the inner and outer landscape can begin to transform.
Heather helps people identify and activate the often-overlooked strengths within them—supporting meaningful change in work, relationships, creative expression, and personal fulfillment.
Specialist Therapies Tailored to Individual Needs
Heather offers a range of well-established, research-supported therapies—carefully selected in collaboration with each client to meet individual needs and goals.
These include:
- Jungian Analysis
- Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Therapies
- Socio-Analytic Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Schema Therapy
- Typology and Social Style work
This breadth allows clients to work in the way that best supports them, whether resolving long-standing patterns, navigating transitions, or deepening the journey of self-understanding and individuation.
Jungian Sandplay Therapy
A central part of Heather’s practice is Jungian Sandplay Therapy—a powerful, symbol-based healing process suitable for people of all ages, regardless of role, life stage, or profession.
Founded in Jungian analytical psychology, Sandplay Therapy takes place in what is known as a “free and protected space”. Within this secure often nonverbal environment, clients work with natural elements, miniatures and sand trays, creating images which emerge from deeper parts of the psyche. This gentle yet potent process activates the psyche’s innate healing capacity, Jung’s transcendent function. Previously undiscovered resources and solutions emerge, described by many as offering a profoundly increased sense of meaning, integration, clarity and wholeness.
The Soul's Mirror - Elena Ray