Our
Story
Power to Live began with a frustration and a conviction. Too many people who need therapy cannot access support that is affordable, skilled and genuinely transformative. And people rarely change through advice alone. Change happens through relationships, practice and learning to respond differently. Our approach to therapy is about helping people map their inner landscape: the patterns that shape how they reach out, protect themselves, withdraw, please, perform or long to be understood. The therapist is not there to hand over a ready-made map. They are a skilled guide, exploring the terrain alongside the client, noticing what happens in the living moment and helping them understand what their behaviour is trying to achieve. Through approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, the therapeutic relationship itself becomes part of that map. Patterns can be noticed with compassion, understood with precision, and practised differently in real time. Power to Live grew from witnessing how powerful this way of working could be, both for Tien's clients and in her own development as a therapist. Why we are a charity High-quality therapy should not belong only to people who can afford standard private fees. But our work goes beyond one-to-one therapy. We want to train therapists well, study what creates meaningful change, and build spaces where people can practise connection with others. Our aim is simple: to make therapy more human, more precise and more accessible. That is the work of Power to Live.
