Counselling and Psychotherapy offers you a place to explore difficulties in your life with someone trained to help you find out more about yourself, and how you may manage your life or your feelings in a way that is more helpful to you.
There are many reasons for seeking counselling or psychotherapy. You may be feeling anxious or distressed, and have problems with your thoughts, feelings or behaviour. You may have gone through a life change such as bereavement or other loss, change of job or redundancy, or marital separation. You may realise that you are repeating unhelpful patterns of behaviour, or be experiencing feeling stuck, and want to find new ways forward.
I have been in private practice as a counsellor and psychotherapist for over eleven years, and so, apart from being highly qualified, am very experienced,
and have helped people with a wide range of difficulties, including:
depression,
· anxiety,
· stress,
· work related issues
· relationship difficulties
· bereavement
· low self esteem
· abuse, emotional, physical or sexual,
· lack of assertiveness,
· anger management,
· identity issues,
· sexual issues,
· sexuality,
· obsessive-compulsive disorder,
· phobias,
· gambling and other addictions,
· self-harm,
· health anxiety,
· eating disorders,
· adjustment disorders,
· post traumatic stress,
· issues from childhood,
· social anxiety,
· personality disorders.
I use a combination of approaches because I believe that no one way is right for everybody. I am qualified as both a counsellor and as a psychotherapisrt, with training and qualifications in different models, including Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Person Centred Counsellingand Art Therapy. I am therefore able to offer clients different ways of working using each of these , or a combination of more than one approach.
You may have had counselling or therapy before, or have read up on different models, and know how you want to work, or you may want me to guide you.
Transactional Analysis is a Humanist model of Psychotherapy, which means it believes that people are essentially OK and equal. It provides an excellent, extremely thorough theory of personality development and human interaction, and how our upbringing, culture and society helps to form us as people.
It has a range of concepts that are designed to be easily grasped, and can be very useful in helping us make sense of our inner world. Some clients find it interesting to learn more about this, and other clients would rather leave the theory to me.
I hold a Certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy or CBT, a type of therapy that is often mentioned in the media. For various reasons, a lot more research has been conducted into CBT than other therapies, and it has a proven track record with a variety of problems, including depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress, panic attacks, agoraphobia and other phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
A cognition is a thought, and CBT maintains that how we think about and how we interpret events will strongly influence our emotional reactions and our behaviour, and then how we behave will have a further impact on our thoughts and emotions. This can create what CBT calls 'vicious cycles'. So CBT believes that changing how we think or changing what we do will change how we feel.
Transactional Analysis has a strong cognitive tradition that can be used alongside CBT.
I also have a Professional Diploma in Art Therapy Studies (Leeds Metropolitan University
Art therapy does not depend on being able to draw, in fact, being good at drawing can get in the way. Clients may draw just patches of colour, or stick people or any simple shape or image. Artwork can help us get in touch with more childlike parts of our personality, that we may normally find difficult to express.
I know that coming for counselling or therapy, particularly for the first time, can be anxiety provoking, and so it is my aim to be approachable, and use my qualities of warmth and empathy and a good sense of humour to enable people to get the most out of the process that they can.
Both Transactional Analysis and CBT are collaborative therapies, where the therapist and client work together on an equal footing. This way of working is very important to me, as it demonstrates respect for the client, and is concerned with empowerment.
Couple Counselling
As a Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist, I am specifically qualified to work with couples, a work that I really enjoy. Couple therapy can be very powerful and help couples move out of negative repeating patterns in their relationship. It can help them understand each other better, and open up lines of communication, or help them resolve sexual difficulties, or make the difficult decision of whether to stay together.
Couples come to understand the underlying dynamics of their relationship, which enables them to do something differently
I use a combination of approaches because I believe that no one way is right for everybody. I am qualified as both a counsellor and as a psychotherapisrt, with training and qualifications in different models, including Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Person Centred Counsellingand Art Therapy. I am therefore able to offer clients different ways of working using each of these , or a combination of more than one approach.
You may have had counselling or therapy before, or have read up on different models, and know how you want to work, or you may want me to guide you.
Transactional Analysis is a Humanist model of Psychotherapy, which means it believes that people are essentially OK and equal. It provides an excellent, extremely thorough theory of personality development and human interaction, and how our upbringing, culture and society helps to form us as people.
It has a range of concepts that are designed to be easily grasped, and can be very useful in helping us make sense of our inner world. Some clients find it interesting to learn more about this, and other clients would rather leave the theory to me.
I hold a Certificate in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy or CBT, a type of therapy that is often mentioned in the media. For various reasons, a lot more research has been conducted into CBT than other therapies, and it has a proven track record with a variety of problems, including depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress, panic attacks, agoraphobia and other phobias and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
A cognition is a thought, and CBT maintains that how we think about and how we interpret events will strongly influence our emotional reactions and our behaviour, and then how we behave will have a further impact on our thoughts and emotions. This can create what CBT calls 'vicious cycles'. So CBT believes that changing how we think or changing what we do will change how we feel.
Transactional Analysis has a strong cognitive tradition that can be used alongside CBT.
I also have a Professional Diploma in Art Therapy Studies (
Art therapy does not depend on being able to draw, in fact, being good at drawing can get in the way. Clients may draw just patches of colour, or stick people or any simple shape or image. Artwork can help us get in touch with more childlike parts of our personality, that we may normally find difficult to express.
I know that coming for counselling or therapy, particularly for the first time, can be anxiety provoking, and so it is my aim to be approachable, and use my qualities of warmth and empathy and a good sense of humour to enable people to get the most out of the process that they can.
Both Transactional Analysis and CBT are collaborative therapies, where the therapist and client work together on an equal footing. This way of working is very important to me, as it demonstrates respect for the client, and is concerned with empowerment.
Couple Counselling
As a Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist, I am specifically qualified to work with couples, a work that I really enjoy. Couple therapy can be very powerful and help couples move out of negative repeating patterns in their relationship. It can help them understand each other better, and open up lines of communication, or help them resolve sexual difficulties, or make the difficult decision of whether to stay together.
Couples come to understand the underlying dynamics of their relationship, which enables them to do something differently
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