Counselling in HD3

Are you struggling to function after a traumatic birth or witnessing a birth? Are you avoiding pregnancy or pregnant but overwhelmed, making decisions about your care based on fear? Just as birth and pregnancy loss can leave physical trauma, so too can birth, pregnancy loss and indeed even fear of birth for the first time, leave a mental trauma. The psychological scar, if left unprocessed, can negatively impact how you think and feel on a daily basis, which radiates out to impact your relationship with your partner, family, friends and child/ren.

Do you ever feel like you’re stuck in a particular place and you can’t get out? Or maybe you’re troubled by your own thoughts and that critical voice we all hear from time to time? I offer a warm and compassionate approach to helping you navigate your life back on track. People are often driven by all kinds of agendas, whether it’s life goals or troubled pasts. Allow me to help you make sense of what you want and feel by creating a friendly and safe environment within sessions.

I work with adults and young people with various presenting difficulties such as anxiety, OCD, phobias, stress, trauma, depression, anger, loss, low self esteem, self harm, relationship problems and abuse. Counselling is a process people seek when they want changes in their life. It can help us to understand and have better clarity of our thoughts, emotions and behaviours. Let me ask you…Are you feeling stuck? Do you want to feel happier? Are you feeling overwhelmed? Are you feeling lost or hopeless? Are you battling with your inner critic? Do you want to heal from your past? If so let’s start your journey to discovering a new you.

Welcome! Good therapy can be powerful and life-changing. As an experienced psychotherapist, I offer adults & couples therapy across a wide range of experiences including sadness, depression, stress and anxiety, whether related to life circumstances, bereavement, relationships, loss of independence or sense of self. I have extensive experience in hospice care and as such have a particular interest in helping those who are experiencing chronic illness, health anxiety, grief and loss. But I also like to work with issues of difference, and with those of you who feel out of synch with the mainstream, those feeling isolated or 'othered'.

Hi, My name is Diane. I specialise in working with people who have issues from the past that are making life difficult today. These issues could have arisen from a number of things, some people may have experienced trauma or abuse in childhood. Others may be struggling to process relationships that they found difficult. Previous bereavement and loss can be another area that clients sometimes wish to explore. When we have unresolved issues from the past, they can affect how we think, feel and act in the present. For example, we might become triggered and overwhelmed by memories, or we might try to avoid certain situations.

The client’s needs are at the heart of the therapy I provide. Sometimes the pressures of life builds, and it can feel overwhelming. I offer a safe environment where we can explore your inner and outer world and work towards your goals for therapy. My aim is to build a strong therapeutic relationship where you feel comfortable and empowered to grow in the direction you want. I work in an integrative and collaborative way, drawing on differing therapeutic disciplines depending on your individual needs. My room is easy to reach from the town centre or M62 and has off-street parking. Online and telephone sessions are also available.

I am a qualified and BABCP accredited psychotherapist, I offer EMDR and CBT. I have experience of working with a different disorders and presentations. I have training in Compassion Focussed Therapy and have a special interest in Eating disorders.

I don’t know what's brought you here at this stage, but rest assured I will do all I can to help you! Do you feel alone in your struggle, weighed down by sadness or anxiety? Are you struggling to manage your emotions, or looking for more of something? I can offer you a safe and accepting space, as an experienced therapist, who truly cares and listens to what's important to you! My clients tell me I work from the heart, with a healthy balance of professionalism and being human. I pride myself on being welcoming, friendly and genuine, as both a counsellor and as a person. I am person-centred in my approach to counselling and to life!

My name is Sharon. I understand that choosing to contact a therapist can be difficult. Making the first contact can be a daunting experience due to the number of therapies available, along with the uncertainty of which therapy will work best for you. As an integrative therapist, we will explore this together on our first consultation and agree on the best way forward for you, to ensure your psychological and emotional growth. Therapy will be created for your individual needs, with a clarity of what you can expect to achieve. The path you wish to take towards fulfilment will be with me being there with you every step of the way.

I am a clinical psychologist with a broad range of experience in offering psychological interventions to adults with complex mental health difficulties in both NHS and private practice settings. I have a particular interest in trauma/ adverse experiences, its different manifestations, and impact on ways of coping and surviving in the world. Building a safe and trusting therapeutic relationship is at the centre of this work so that we can collaboratively work together on achieving your goals.

I work with clients from every background and with a wide variety of issues. With adults I work with anxiety issues around social settings, stress around work. I also work with bereavement especially women who have miscarried or lost a child. During our initial conversation I can understand what you want from your counselling space, I work in an active way, where I listen carefully to your experiences but also help you see parts of your experience a you may have previously neglected. I also help clients that suffer from anxiety with coping mechanisms - and help educate clients around anxiety and the effects of it.

What I am offering is counselling of a Person-Centred nature, this is exactly as it sounds, you are at the centre. It is about you and you have the ability to solve your own issues. If you want to be my client, I will sit and listen with the focus on you as a unique individual. The counselling process, incorporates empathy, genuineness and unconditional positive. These may seem like strange words but they mean that I am skilled at listening and that I can see the world from your point of view, with no pre-determined judgement or conditions. The question is, Could counselling change your life ?

I specialize in Bereavement Counselling.Have you had a major loss in your life which you are struggling to deal with? Are you unable to express your emotions and make sense of what has happened? Has this life event impacted on all other areas of your life and you are finding it difficult to function?Counselling can be of great benefit to you if this is the case. It helps you to express yourself and work through your grief and in time helps you to gain a different perspective on your situation and learn to have a healthy response to what has happened in your life.Counselling shines a light on the difficult areas of life.