Counselling & Psychotherapy

My successful, 20 year track record of counselling experience means you can have total confidence in your sessions with me.

My experience and expertise is gained through work with Relate, E.A.P.s, Emergency Services, G.P. Practices, organisations and companies - as well as in private practice.

I work with individuals, couples, families and young people.

Relationships

"We can not - NOT be in a relationship when we are involved in activities that include other people."

I can help you repair, build and develop personal and family relationships. Or take steps to move on. I can also help with relationships which involve people in a work, educational, social or other environment.

Personal Therapy

I specialise in working with major trauma and PTSD as well as helping clients with “ordinary life?crises and problems that never seem to get resolved.

“Ordinary life?crises and problems may be causing anxiety, depression and sometimes physical symptoms like headaches and other bodily aches and pains. So while not “major?I fully understand that “ordinary life? can be just as painful, stressful and debilitating to those involved

EMDR

Some of these personal therapy issues respond well to EMDR (Eye Movement De-sensitisation and Reprocessing) sessions.

You can read more about my counselling approach and how EMDR may also help, here:
Counselling and how it helps

EMDR

Some examples of why you may choose to come for counselling :

Couples

- may choose to come when there is a crisis, such as an affair or one partner may be considering leaving the relationship. Or there might be conflict which they feel unable to resolve by themselves. In this case it is better if both partners come along but counselling with one partner helps too, if the other is unable or does not want to come.

- may have decided to separate and want help to manage the separation as amicably as possible, especially where children are involved.

Couples and/or Individuals

- may come when external factors such as coping with extended families, bereavement, unemployment, redundancy, work stress etc, have created distress and conflict in the family or at work. Counselling helps them to manage feelings and the situation more constructively.

- may come along with a desire to understand and accept different sexuality in the family. My work and training with Friends and Families of Lesbian and Gay people (FFLAG) added to my expertise in working within this area.

Individuals

- may choose to work at coming to terms with the loss of a relationship or explore their past relationships with a view to understanding themselves better. As a result, they are able to move on and make more informed choices in relationships in future.

Young people

- may want to talk about things like: sexuality; bullying; peer pressures and relationships; school work and/or exam pressure. Sometimes they disclose more complex problems like misuse of drugs or alcohol, eating disorders and self harm. They can start the process of talking which can be the first step to getting appropriate help from other specialist agencies.

As you can see, clients are many and varied and bring issues that are many and varied. But despite these variations, clients have some things in common. Recognition it is time for change; a desire to change, a wish to minimise or remove distress and anxiety and a need for a deeper understanding of themselves, their partners, family members or others around them.

To help you with change, you can be sure that your sessions will focus on your needs, reflect your levels of comfort and be at a pace and frequency that matches your circumstances.

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