Psychotherapy & Counselling
Benefits of Counselling and Psychotherapy?
Most people at times in their life can benefit from some counselling and psychotherapy? Are you stressed, anxious, depressed, struggling with relationships; feel like you don't belong; stuck in habits that cause you and others difficulties and create even more problems? Do you fly off the handle emotionally? Or feel bad about yourself no matter what you do? Have you experienced a past or recent trauma and are struggling to live the life you wanted or get back to what life was like before 'it' happened? Do you have symptoms that the doctor can give no medical reason for? Maybe you experience panic attacks? Have you suffered a bereavement that's brought up complicated feelings? Or maybe you really struggle in social situations and withdraw into yourself? Are you suffering from anxiety about your health? the climate? wars in the world? Does this effect your ability to be present and enjoy the moment you have today?
These are just some of the symptoms people may present with at the GP seeking relief. Medication can help but maybe you would also benefit from a therapeutic relationship to help you explore whats going on in your inner life and get to grips with the roots of the symptoms you face?
Watch this helpful video that explains Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy can help you to:
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make sense of your life experience-the brain needs a coherent narrative
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grow in self knowledge and know thyself
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increase psychological flexibility enabling confident decision making and committed action
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process traumatic or painful events safely and move into recovery
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master your emotions so that they don't master you
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relate more compassionately to your inner world of thoughts and feelings
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tune into what really matters to you
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rewire your brain so that it works more harmoniously
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develop new skills and life practices that support your living well
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find some freedom from the misery of anxiety and shame
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resolve inner conflicts driving behaviour and contributing to life stress
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empower you to change from the inside out.
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break free from unhelpful patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.
I am an approved Health Provider for the following insurance companies. If you are entitled to counselling and psychotherapy support via your health insurance then my services are also available to you.
Sessions
Sessions last for 50 minutes in regular weekly slots.
Sessions are most effective in person and take place in a confidential space.
I can work with you online via Teams or Google Meet if in person contact is not possible.
£70 a session.
I am available Monday and Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday and Thursday morning and Friday morning. Some early evening appointments may be possible by arrangement
You can view Psychotherapy as a form of counselling, but it is a bit different to counselling, in that counselling may focus on a particular issue and tends to last for a shorter period. Psychotherapy tends to require a longer-term relational process, with a focus on working together at relational depth. The focus is on gaining greater insight and awareness into emotions and feelings, and habitual patterns of behaviour that no longer serve you. It aids in evaluating images of yourself and others that may hinder your engagement and potential in the present day or are contributing to the ongoing issues you are facing. With greater conscious awareness, new possibilities emerge for new decisions, choices and actions.
In Psychotherapy, forgotten, sometimes buried experiences from the past can be re-evaluated in the present and things that have been unconsciously influencing or ruling our lives become more conscious. This leads to greater self-understanding and self-knowledge, which in turn leads to greater psychological flexibility and freedom of choice in how you decide to behave today.
Psychotherapy is a learning and development process that can help to alleviate current psychological suffering and pain by focusing on emotions and discovering the foundation or the root of the presenting problems in order to resolve it. Held in a supportive and nurturing relationship with the therapist allows you to work through your past, create a coherent narrative, and feel more secure in the present. In time you can heal the past; recover and define your authentic self; overcome self-defeating patterns so that you experience greater autonomy, spontaneity and intimacy, improved executive functioning and less emotional reactivity.
Psychotherapy gives you a space to make sense of yourself; the life events and relationships that have influenced and moulded you into the person you are. With this awareness you can make new choices, find and release new energy and untapped potential, giving you greater freedom to move purposefully into the future, being the person, you freely choose to be.