I am an experienced UKCP registered psychotherapist and supervisor with over 15 years experience. I offer sessions for individuals and couples on both a long and short term basis depending on what is needed. I have an established private practice in Box, Wiltshire. I am also a member of BACP (The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy).

If you’ve been experiencing issues in your life that you’re struggling with, and feel you would like to talk to someone, I can help you explore these things in a caring, confidential space. Person-centred counselling is a way of creating a counselling relationship where you can experience warmth and acceptance, empathic listening, and genuineness, which will enable you to access hitherto untapped resources in yourself. It is a relational therapy - together, we look at different parts of your story and experiences, and together we create the conditions that lead to positive change for you.

Hello! Our clients range from 8 to 80.....we work with anyone whose emotional distress is getting in the way of them being able to live life fully. We listen closely then together build a plan of strategies that can help improve your mood and get you doing what you want to be doing.

Are you or your child struggling? At times we can all experience anxiety, stress, depression, feeling sad, anger or family or relationship issues which make us feel alone. Sometimes we can become trapped by this and feel unable to move forward, whatever age we are! If this is you, you are not alone. The most up to date statistics tell us that one in four people will experience anxiety or depression at some point in their lives. Together we will seek to understand the problem you are facing whether this is caused by current issues or events from your past. We will find new ways and skills to deal with your feelings.

I am a qualified Counsellor and Psychosexual Therapist. I have specialist interest in working with: Couples, sexual violence, sexual abuse, sexual compulsions, sexual offending behaviours and GSRD clients. I work with clients who have suicidal thoughts, low self esteem, anxiety and depression, My philosophy is that we will work together to explore the issues/challenges that you face.

I am a warm hearted, open-minded individual who understands how difficult taking the first steps into counselling can sometimes be. Many people have 'life events' that bring them to counselling such as relationship breakdown, bereavement, or redundancy. Often feelings that accompany these life events can lead to depression and anxiety. Or it may be that suppressed or undesired feelings keep recurring, leading to painful repeating patterns of behavior or outcomes in your life. My role in your therapeutic journey is to facilitate your awareness, to gently challenge perspective where appropriate and to walk alongside you at your pace.

At times life can feel overwhelming for any number of reasons. Perhaps you are struggling with a recent event, or past events are still causing you emotional distress or unhappiness. Maybe you feel confused about how you feel and would like to make more sense of your emotions. Or you may have a specific problem and would like to work through it to enable you to enjoy life more fully. Whatever the reason for seeking support, Bright Future counselling provides a confidential and non-judgemental environment to support you in working through your thoughts and feelings, enabling you to make better sense of yourself and your issues.

Hello and a warm welcome to my page. If you are unhappy or anxious and would like to talk to someone, I can offer a safe and confidential space for you to do that.

I offer individual psychological therapy for adults. I can offer help with a wide range of common emotional and mental health difficulties, and also have expertise in the management of long-term physical health conditions. I aim to provide a warm, non-judgemental and supportive space in which my clients can feel safe to explore their difficulties and make changes. After a detailed assessment, I will develop a tailored treatment plan with you. This will be based on evidence-based and recommended therapeutic approaches, as well as your personal needs and preferences.

You might be struggling with something difficult in the here and now, such as the loss of a loved one, or the breakdown of a relationship. Or perhaps you’re aware of vague, underlying feelings of sadness, anxiety or anger. Maybe you feel trapped in a cycle of repeated disappointments with partners, friends and careers and don’t know why. Whether you know what the problem is, or even if you don’t, therapy can help. It’s an opportunity to explore yourself; to examine feelings, thoughts and motivations and gain understanding - the first step towards navigating a different, happier course.

I offer a calm, supportive and affirming approach that can help look at the issues such as anxiety, depression, sadness, relationship problems as well as trauma and bereavement.

There are times in life when we recognise that we need some support to help us through the darkness. Emotional upsets, challenges in relationships, at work, changes in home life, difficult relationship with food and body image, unexpected and/or expected life events which can cause grief, anxiety and depression - all these things and more can leave us asking ourselves if we are 'good enough'. I have years of supporting different people with different issues to find their way through the darkness into a clearer understanding of who they are and how they can manage life.

If you change nothing, nothing changes but it can be hard to know where to begin. I feel it starts with you being heard and valued. Having your story and your feelings witnessed and validated is extraordinarily powerful and provides the catalyst for change. You will gain a clarity and a sense of perspective as well as an understanding of why you behave in the way you do. Talking to me will feel different from talking to a friend or family member. I will offer you insights and reflections, not opinions or solutions. I am interested in you and your experiences and they matter to me, but as I'm not involved I can remain objective.

The greatest adversary we will come up against in our lives is ourselves because, for many of us, the loudest voice of criticism and doubt is our own. Some of us lean toward the negative too easily and focus on what we are not, the traits we don't possess, and who we wish we could be. Maybe we don't spend very much time thinking about what we are because what we are doesn't feel like it will ever be enough.⁠ ⁠ In doing so we miss our own worth. We overlook our talents, underate our achievements, and deny our potential. ⁠ ⁠It's hard sometimes to remember that you are worthy of all you dream of and hope for. ⁠

There are many reasons people choose to go to therapy. Some common reasons are depression, anxiety, grief and relationship difficulties. However there doesn’t need to be a specific issue, sometimes people find that their thoughts and behaviours are holding them back or that they are feeling ‘stuck’ and are not enjoying life as much as they would like. I will work with you to understand your goal for therapy​ and ask you to think about how you will know when you have reached that goal. I won’t ever tell you what you should do or give direct advice but instead work with you to find your own solutions.

In bringing myself into my client's world I use my whole experience of life as well as my training. I seek to understand the personal meaning for my client, of their words and actions as each client brings their own unique world view. If I were to imagine client who has thanked me, they would have been seeking help with their lifelong relationships. This client would have 'lost' their way with communication of their own feelings and needs and may need to identify these first. A client may not be sure about what they want so that is what we explore together, individually, in couples or in family groups.

Hi, I'm Elaine, a child therapist focussing on play and creative arts therapy working with children and young people who are having a hard time managing big feelings, stressful situations and other life challenges. I also work together with families and those who support children to help them look after themselves as well as others. I work with children and young people aged 3-18 (as well as some adults) and support them with a huge range of issues from anxiety and worries about school, fostering and adoption, to trauma, bereavement, sexual abuse and domestic violence, covering pretty much everything you can think of in-between.

I have worked as a Gestalt therapist since qualifying 1999 working in private practice, primary health care, two mental health charities and at University of West of England. I now work in private practice in Exeter and Bath. I work with male and female clients individually, couples and groups. I work with issues from anxiety, relationship difficulties and personality disorders. Gestalt is a holistic therapy that looks closely at contact between people, the self and environment and the process that is involved in the contact and what interrupts the contact. Please get in touch to make an initial appointment.

I recognise the needs of the individual at a humanistic level by seeing how trauma is held at a very deep level. Working around the story of early negative and positive childhood experiences ( the inner child ) allows Integrative therapy in a number of ways to help the process of getting to the core beliefs one holds by creating a safe space for individuals to explore and release old patterns. This is done by first building a trust to let vulnerability come through by then assisting with breaking down blocks by way of counselling and body Psychotherapy.

Are you battling something? Perhaps parts of a broken childhood have begun to make their effects known. Feeling lost and broken and don't know how to change, or are the odds stacked against you and you feel overwhelmed. If it feels like no-one is on your side and no one understands, I truly believe that change is possible. The reason I do this work is that with the right support and input people can change. I know because I've witnessed it in my practice so many times. For some, finding the root of a lifetime of negative feelings is completely transforming for others a confirmation, but for everyone it brings healing.