Services
Our services include long and short term counselling, individual face to face, online, couple, child and Employee Assistant Program(EAP) and group therapy.
Due to Covid-19, we are only offering online services for now.
Our therapeutic approach: CBT, EMDR, Attachment focused EMDR, Intergenerational EMDR and Psychotherapy.
CBT
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a combination of cognitive therapy (examining the things you think) and behaviour therapy (examining the things you do. CBT is an approach believes that how your thoughts, beliefs and attitude affect your feelings and your behaviour, it believes that your problems can be managed by changing the way you think and behave and teaches you coping skills for dealing with different problems. CBT explores the past is but is focused on the current issues and provides practical ways of dealing with the problem. CBT helps you the understand your issues and break the vicious circle by breaking down overwhelming problems into smaller parts and showing you how to challenge these negative thoughts patterns to improve your feelings and behaviour. The CBT therapist helps you identify those negative automatic thoughts and explore how one leads to the other and how these impact on you, feelings, physical sensations and actions are interconnected, and that negative thoughts and feelings can trap you in a vicious cycle. The therapist uses CBT techniques to help the client develop the skills of replacing these negative thoughts and maladaptive assumptions with healthy and realistic thoughts. Therefore we agreed on the client having a diary and taking notes of the negative thoughts, feelings and behaviour that followed. CBT is collaborative work between the therapist and client structured and focused. It is usually time limited and can last from 6 weeks to 18 weeks.
CBT is used to mostly to treat
Depression
General Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety
Eating Order such as anorexia and bulimia
Phobias
OCD obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Panic disorder
Sleep problems, such as insomnia
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Addictions
CBT can also be useful for other mental and physical health problems. CBT is sometimes used to treat people with long-term health conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). CBT cannot be used to cure these physical health conditions, but it can help people cope better with their symptoms.
What is EMDR therapy?
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful psychological treatment technique which was developed by an American clinical psychologist, Dr Francine Shapiro, in the 1980s. She is a Senior Research member at the Mental Research Institute, she published the first research data to support the benefits of the therapy in 1989.
Afterwards there has been a huge amount of research work carried out that demonstrates the enormous benefits of EMDR as psychological treatment for trauma arising from diverse experiences such as war related experiences, childhood sexual and/or physical abuse or neglect, natural disaster, assault, surgical trauma, road traffic accidents and workplace accidents. Since its original development, EMDR is also increasingly used to help individuals with other issues and performance anxiety. EMDR is a complex and powerful therapy EMDR is also very beneficial to adults as well children.
EMDR has been classified as effective for the treatment of:
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Panic attacks
Eating disorders
Addictions
Anxiety
Depression
Bipolar
Personality Disorder
Workshops
I run Workshops on issues such as:
• Anger management
• Stress management
• Men/ Women Self-esteem groups
• Parenting skills
• Therapeutic writing (using poetry)
• Cultural issues
• Mindfulness
Our services are also extendable to the NHS and other organizations that may require psychological or emotional support for their employees' well-being. We work with other counsellors to provide Employee Assistant Program(EAP) services to companies and schools.
These services are also available in French and Spanish languages.
Client Counselling Contract
We aim to provide you with a confidential opportunity to explore personal and relational issues in safety. Our role as your counsellor is to help you through this process without criticizing, judgement or telling you what to do. We may on occasions give information or offer suggestions. During counselling, we set goals agreed between the client and the therapist. The client agrees to work towards the agreed goals. If at any time we feel we can no longer help you, we will offer to refer you to someone who can.
GPDR complaint /Confidentiality:
This is a very important aspect of the counselling relationship. Everything that we discuss in the counselling session is kept in the strictest confidence. As a Member of the BACP, we are required to have regular supervision and we will need to discuss our work with our supervisors from time to time. However, we will not disclose your name or anything that would enable you to be identified. If you are being treated by your doctor for emotional difficulties, it is important that you inform him or her about me, and vice versa. We will not confer with your doctor without your knowledge and permission. If there is convincing evidence that you intend to harm yourself or others, We will need to break confidentiality by informing your doctor, or in serious cases the police, again this would only take place with your prior knowledge.
We will keep brief notes after a session, which will be securely stored, and there is no way you would be able to be identified from the notes.
Sessions last for around 50 minutes, and we will usually meet once a week, at the same time and day each week, though this is also negotiable. The whole session time belongs to you. If you arrive part way through your allotted time, we will see you for the remainder of the time. we will not offer your time to anyone else, even if you are away on holiday so long as this was agreed. If your circumstances change and the session time is no longer suitable, we will do my best to accommodate this and offer you an alternative time.
Cancellation and Holidays:
Cancellation of an appointment with less than 24 hours’ notice, or failure to show for an appointment, will incur the full fee. Appointments missed because you are ill with proof from GP or police and those you gave 24 hours’ notice for will not be charged.
We will be available for you with the exception of our holidays and occasional times when we might attend a training workshop or a conference. We will give you as much notice as possible if we are unable to make a session.
In the event where we need to miss our session because of emergency, we will try to offer you an alternative time.
Duration of Counselling:
This is something that we will negotiate between us and can last as long as you want. We suggest that you ensure that counselling is something you can commit to both you’re your time and financially.
Endings:
Sometimes you may feel that the counselling is not helping you. In these circumstances it is best if you can come and discuss the difficulties rather than abruptly ending the counselling. Many of us have experienced difficult and sudden losses and if this happens in counselling, these losses do not have the opportunity to be understood and resolved. We ask that you give three weeks’ notice before finishing so that we have the chance to discuss your decision and have a proper ending, but there will be no pressure on you to continue with counselling.
If you harm me or damage my property, we will consider whether to charge you and or terminate counselling treatment.
Complaints:
If you have a complaint about our work, please discuss the issue first with us and if you are still unsatisfied then please contact BACP directly, the body responsible for issues of counsellors’ professional conduct.
Please sign the consent form if you are in agreement with this contract
For more information please call for a free consultation.
Due to Covid-19, we are only offering online services for now.
Our therapeutic approach: CBT, EMDR, Attachment focused EMDR, Intergenerational EMDR and Psychotherapy.
CBT
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a combination of cognitive therapy (examining the things you think) and behaviour therapy (examining the things you do. CBT is an approach believes that how your thoughts, beliefs and attitude affect your feelings and your behaviour, it believes that your problems can be managed by changing the way you think and behave and teaches you coping skills for dealing with different problems. CBT explores the past is but is focused on the current issues and provides practical ways of dealing with the problem. CBT helps you the understand your issues and break the vicious circle by breaking down overwhelming problems into smaller parts and showing you how to challenge these negative thoughts patterns to improve your feelings and behaviour. The CBT therapist helps you identify those negative automatic thoughts and explore how one leads to the other and how these impact on you, feelings, physical sensations and actions are interconnected, and that negative thoughts and feelings can trap you in a vicious cycle. The therapist uses CBT techniques to help the client develop the skills of replacing these negative thoughts and maladaptive assumptions with healthy and realistic thoughts. Therefore we agreed on the client having a diary and taking notes of the negative thoughts, feelings and behaviour that followed. CBT is collaborative work between the therapist and client structured and focused. It is usually time limited and can last from 6 weeks to 18 weeks.
CBT is used to mostly to treat
Depression
General Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety
Eating Order such as anorexia and bulimia
Phobias
OCD obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Panic disorder
Sleep problems, such as insomnia
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Addictions
CBT can also be useful for other mental and physical health problems. CBT is sometimes used to treat people with long-term health conditions, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). CBT cannot be used to cure these physical health conditions, but it can help people cope better with their symptoms.
What is EMDR therapy?
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful psychological treatment technique which was developed by an American clinical psychologist, Dr Francine Shapiro, in the 1980s. She is a Senior Research member at the Mental Research Institute, she published the first research data to support the benefits of the therapy in 1989.
Afterwards there has been a huge amount of research work carried out that demonstrates the enormous benefits of EMDR as psychological treatment for trauma arising from diverse experiences such as war related experiences, childhood sexual and/or physical abuse or neglect, natural disaster, assault, surgical trauma, road traffic accidents and workplace accidents. Since its original development, EMDR is also increasingly used to help individuals with other issues and performance anxiety. EMDR is a complex and powerful therapy EMDR is also very beneficial to adults as well children.
EMDR has been classified as effective for the treatment of:
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Panic attacks
Eating disorders
Addictions
Anxiety
Depression
Bipolar
Personality Disorder
Workshops
I run Workshops on issues such as:
• Anger management
• Stress management
• Men/ Women Self-esteem groups
• Parenting skills
• Therapeutic writing (using poetry)
• Cultural issues
• Mindfulness
Our services are also extendable to the NHS and other organizations that may require psychological or emotional support for their employees' well-being. We work with other counsellors to provide Employee Assistant Program(EAP) services to companies and schools.
These services are also available in French and Spanish languages.
Client Counselling Contract
We aim to provide you with a confidential opportunity to explore personal and relational issues in safety. Our role as your counsellor is to help you through this process without criticizing, judgement or telling you what to do. We may on occasions give information or offer suggestions. During counselling, we set goals agreed between the client and the therapist. The client agrees to work towards the agreed goals. If at any time we feel we can no longer help you, we will offer to refer you to someone who can.
GPDR complaint /Confidentiality:
This is a very important aspect of the counselling relationship. Everything that we discuss in the counselling session is kept in the strictest confidence. As a Member of the BACP, we are required to have regular supervision and we will need to discuss our work with our supervisors from time to time. However, we will not disclose your name or anything that would enable you to be identified. If you are being treated by your doctor for emotional difficulties, it is important that you inform him or her about me, and vice versa. We will not confer with your doctor without your knowledge and permission. If there is convincing evidence that you intend to harm yourself or others, We will need to break confidentiality by informing your doctor, or in serious cases the police, again this would only take place with your prior knowledge.
We will keep brief notes after a session, which will be securely stored, and there is no way you would be able to be identified from the notes.
Sessions last for around 50 minutes, and we will usually meet once a week, at the same time and day each week, though this is also negotiable. The whole session time belongs to you. If you arrive part way through your allotted time, we will see you for the remainder of the time. we will not offer your time to anyone else, even if you are away on holiday so long as this was agreed. If your circumstances change and the session time is no longer suitable, we will do my best to accommodate this and offer you an alternative time.
Cancellation and Holidays:
Cancellation of an appointment with less than 24 hours’ notice, or failure to show for an appointment, will incur the full fee. Appointments missed because you are ill with proof from GP or police and those you gave 24 hours’ notice for will not be charged.
We will be available for you with the exception of our holidays and occasional times when we might attend a training workshop or a conference. We will give you as much notice as possible if we are unable to make a session.
In the event where we need to miss our session because of emergency, we will try to offer you an alternative time.
Duration of Counselling:
This is something that we will negotiate between us and can last as long as you want. We suggest that you ensure that counselling is something you can commit to both you’re your time and financially.
Endings:
Sometimes you may feel that the counselling is not helping you. In these circumstances it is best if you can come and discuss the difficulties rather than abruptly ending the counselling. Many of us have experienced difficult and sudden losses and if this happens in counselling, these losses do not have the opportunity to be understood and resolved. We ask that you give three weeks’ notice before finishing so that we have the chance to discuss your decision and have a proper ending, but there will be no pressure on you to continue with counselling.
If you harm me or damage my property, we will consider whether to charge you and or terminate counselling treatment.
Complaints:
If you have a complaint about our work, please discuss the issue first with us and if you are still unsatisfied then please contact BACP directly, the body responsible for issues of counsellors’ professional conduct.
Please sign the consent form if you are in agreement with this contract
For more information please call for a free consultation.