
Sarah Gallagher
Registered Member MÍø±¬ÃÅ (Accredited)
Contact information
- Phone number
- 07753389307
Therapist - Battle
Features
- Flexible hours available
- Concessionary rates
Availability
My most available hours are Monday to Friday between 9am & 8pm. I work online or by telephone only.
I currently have space in my practice for new clients.
About me and my therapy practice
Hi my name is Sarah, and I thank you for considering whether I might be a good fit for you. I am an integrative relational and humanistic practitioner. It is my goal to help you explore your thoughts & feelings without judgment, so you can face the ups and downs of life with resilient mental health.
Sometimes our mental wellbeing can be under pressure, perhaps since childhood, and we feel the symptoms of anxiety, stress and depression to the point that it is interfering with our daily life. I can't make problems go away but I can help you to find it easier to cope with them and feel happier.
Therapy can help you gain a deeper understanding of yourself, improve you mental resilience, build stronger relationships, and develop coping skills for managing stress and difficult emotions.
For 25 years it has been my privilege that people have trusted me to help with their deepest hurts and biggest challenges.
I offer sessions on a short to long term contract, which we will agree initially then review as we go.
Together we will set an agenda and a goal to work towards.
I will listen, support and guide, holding hope for your positive outcome, until you're able to do that for yourself.
Please email or call to discuss a way forward.
I am fully insured & DBS checked
Practice description
In 1999 I completed a 4 year psychotherapy course in Transactional Analysis and then took a further two years training in humanistic approaches. Since then I have also qualified as a trauma risk practitioner within a Police Force and completed a degree in reflective therapeutic practice. I have also worked in the intensive environment of NHS talking therapies (formerly known as IAPT). I am also qualified to work specifically online.
I have worked with adults in the blue light sector (including those in high profile senior roles) and within a Cat B male prison, and latterly NHS Talking Therapies.
Alongside my private practice I have held senior leadership positions in all those sectors, including roles to transform services, offering personal and professional growth opportunities for senior staff.
It has been my pleasure to provide training in Transactional Analysis and trauma management consultancy to independent fostering organisations, and to have served as a Foster Parent.
There is a whole spectrum of different gender and sexual expressions and in my therapy and counselling services I offer a safe and confidential place to those who are seeking to understand and be understood.
My collective experience informs me that for some clients racial, cultural, and other diversity factors may be central to the work, but for others these experiences may be peripheral or less relevant or central to the work in therapy.
My focus will be on your individual personality, developed psychologically, socially, and culturally through human relationships and experiences.
You may suffer from anxiety or depression; recovering from trauma or dealing with grief; trying to understand the impact of childhood events that are still impacting your day to day living. Make a positive move for yourself and invest in a therapeutic relationship that can help alleviate your symptoms and give you hope for positive change.
My first session
Our first session will be an assessment of whether we are a good fit. Do I have the skills and experience to help you? Do you feel comfortable with me to proceed & want to commit to the process of therapy. If after 20 minutes it is clear we are not going to proceed together I will not charge for this time - otherwise the assessment will take 50 minutes & I will charge my sessional rate.
What I can help with
Abuse, Anger management, Anxiety, Bereavement, Business coaching, Child related issues, Coaching supervision, Cultural issues, Depression, Executive coaching, Identity issues, Leadership coaching, LGBTQ+ counselling, Loss, Men's issues, Personal development, Post-traumatic stress, Redundancy, Relationships, Self esteem, Sexual identity, Sexuality, Stress, Trauma, Women's issues, Work related issues
Types of therapy
Brief therapy, Humanistic, Integrative, Interpersonal, Person centred, Relational, Solution focused brief therapy, Transactional analysis
Clients I work with
Adults, EAP, Families, Groups, Older adults, Organisations, Trainees, Young people
How I deliver therapy
Long term sessions, Online therapy, Short term sessions, Single session therapy (SST), Telephone therapy, Time-limited
Languages spoken
English