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My availability is:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 9am-6.30pm

Friday 9am-2pm

Hi, I'm Courteney, I work as an integrative psychotherapist and a couples therapist, trained in EFT.

My expertise are with working with clients who have experienced trauma, sexual violence, domestic abuse and childhood abuse. 

Although I am also experience in working with a range of presenting problems such as, shame, guilt, blame, low self esteem and confidence, anxiety, depression, self harm and suicidal intent, relationship difficulties and relationship attachments.

I am a qualified independent sexual violence advisor, which has given me the experience of working with trauma, sexual violence and childhood abuse, delivering a combination of practical and emotional support. Alongside this, working within the criminal justice process and understanding the impact a criminal case has on an individual. 

I feel it is important to develop an understanding and awareness of what your triggers are and what has caused your presenting problem as well as working with how to overcome and manage the impact of this now.  I value the importance of autonomy in the therapy room, for you to have a choice in how you want to work and process through your presenting problems whilst supporting you in this journey.

I place importance on creating a safe and trusting environment whilst building a therapeutic rapport with my clients in order to provide a space for clients to explore and process their feeling, thoughts and experiences. 

I have a Masters degree in Integrative Psychotherapy (Level 7 qualified). 

Integrative psychotherapy is a practice where a therapist integrates elements from different models of therapy. The modalities that I currently work in is psychodynamic therapy, person-centred therapy and CBT. 

Psychodymanic therapy focuses on how current feelings, thoughts and behaviours can be connected to and shaped by past experiences and unconscious processes. 

Person-centred therapy focuses on providing empathy,  congruence and acceptance to help an individual to understand and accept themselves. Person-centred therapy allows the individual to lead the therapy sessions in focusing on what they want to bring and how they would like to process their experiences. 

CBT focuses on how thoughts, feelings and behaviours can impact on someone's mental and emotional wellbeing. CBT provides psycho-education, skills and techniques to help manage and overcome negative thoughts and beliefs. In addition to changing negative feelings and behaviours. 

As a couples therapist I am also trained in providing Emotionally focused therapy (EFT). EFT is an evidence-based approach to couples therapy which draws from attachment theory and the science of emotions to help couples to identify the negative processing and interaction patterns that are creating distress and conflict. EFT also helps couples to understand their emotions and emotional regulation, to understand the impact of their thinking patterns and to build self-awareness and improve their attachment. 

I am able to offer Pre-trial therapy. 

I offer a free 15 minute consultation, this consultation provides the time to discuss how we can work together and to explore what is bringing you to therapy and what your goals are for therapy. This also gives you a chance to ask me any question you have about how I offer therapy and to see whether my support is best suited to you.