Counselling & psychotherapy

Who is it for?

• Are you struggling to make sense of things?
• Do you suffer from anxiety or stress?
• Are you feeling low or depressed?
• Does your behaviour distress or confuse you?

  Perhaps being overwhelmed by a feeling like anger; or difficulties with gambling, drugs, alcohol, sex or food.

• Do you find it difficult to manage your relationships with other people?
• Are you trying to cope with a loss of someone or something? (Bereavement)
• Are you affected by incidents in the present or from the past? (trauma and stress)
• Are you uncertain about who is the real you? (your identity)

When faced with these questions it helps to talk to somebody from outside your circle of family and friends.

Health and illness

This is not just about mental health or mental illness — it can be as simple as having a sense of looking for greater fulfilment in your life, of looking to be helped to be all that you can be.

Couples

For couples, therapy offers a chance to explore the relationship between you, and for both to gain a new perspective. See "Therapy for couples" for a bit more about this.

How does it work?

Therapy provides an opportunity to talk about things that you don't often manage to talk about in everyday life. The regular sessions can let you look at thoughts and feelings in a different light, listen to what's going on for you, or practise doing things in a different way.

As a therapist, I don't usually give advice. Instead, we work together to find out what you want to change.

For many people, a major experience of therapy is relief at being listened to without judgement. In sessions with me there is a safe, confidential, space to explore issues that can seem overwhelming when you hold them to yourself.

It can be hard work, sometimes scary, and there are also no guarantees. Yet it can lead to big changes. The first step is to make contact with me.