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Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons

As a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and Coach with experience of raising two sons with my wife, and substantial leadership experience of services supporting students in higher education, I now work with individual clients who are feeling stuck in one or more aspects of their lives and want support to understand what is holding them back and how to move on.

As a qualified Integrative Counsellor, I draw on a range of theories including person-centred and psychodynamic. As a qualified Executive Coach, I can also offer more proactive, goal focused approaches to help you achieve specific changes, such as better integrating and balancing your personal and professional lives. I am able to respond flexibly to your unique needs and concerns in a warm and supportive manner.

Clients come for help with a range of issues, such as feeling socially isolated and wanting help to build new friendships, or  improve or leave an existing relationship. Others want help to manage a major life transition, such as becoming a parent, applying for and/or starting a new job, or retiring from paid employment.

I explore with each client the nature of the challenge(s) you are facing and any relevant life history that may be contributing to your difficulties. Feeling understood and not judged can be both affirming and healing, as well as make it easier to respond more calmly to situations which you find anxiety provoking and/or depressing. I also use coaching techniques to help you clarify the changes you want to make in your life and to support you to make them.

Previous clients have started to build new friendships through common interests and activities, while others have learned how to reset their existing relationship or bring it to an end. Some clients have found it helpful to explore their hopes, fears and expectations of parenthood, while others wanted help to manage specific concerns that have arisen with their children. Some clients have been able to clarify the direction they want their career to go in and secure a new role, while others have clarified what will give their life meaning and purpose beyond a lifetime of paid employment.

The most important consideration when choosing a counsellor or coach is whether you can build a good relationship and trust them to respond helpfully to your most personal thoughts and feelings.

The best way to begin this process is to have an initial conversation with one or more potential therapists so you can compare and contrast how you feel talking with them. Therefore, I would encourage you to get in touch via email, so we can arrange an initial conversation to explore the potential fit between the support you are looking for and I can offer.

I offer an initial exploratory assessment which lasts for 50 minutes and costs £50. This allows us to explore why you are considering Psychotherapeutic Counselling and Coaching and how it might help you, as well as to experience how it might feel to work together.

If you decide to work with me, I will initially offer six sessions. We can then decide together whether you/we would like to extend this.