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I am available for counselling sessions on evenings, I offer face to face and online therapy sessions. 

My name is Ella (she/her) and I am a qualified Relational, Integrative Counsellor. I am a registered member of the Íø±¬ÃÅ and I adhere to their ethical framework.  

I qualified from the Integrative Counselling Masters at Leeds Beckett University. My passion has always being to work with people in a supporting role. As a Relational Counsellor, the therapeutic relationship is very important to me, feeling comfortable with your Counsellor is a vital part of the work together. I offer a safe, empathetic and compassionate space, free from judgement for you to explore your thoughts and feelings. My aim is to support you to feel authentic and confident within the different parts of your identity. Therapy can support you to feel empowered over how you choose to live your life and your choices. I offer an Integrative approach which means I will draw on a range of tools from changing cognition, parts approach to identity, somatically resourcing and how the body and mind link, a creative and solution focused approach when supporting you to best meet your needs during the therapy.  

My experience before going into Counselling was Support work for Adults with Learning disabilities, also I worked as a Special Educational needs (SEN) Teaching Assistant working closely with children and young people with diverse needs, including physical disabilities, ADHD and, Autism. My background of working with neurodiversity within adults and young people has helped support my current Counselling role and practice. 

I offer 50 minute counselling sessions to Adults and Students, these can be weekly or fortnightly. 

Some of the areas I am experienced with are;

- Anxiety

- Depression

-Stress

-Change

-Relationship issues

-Neurodiversity

-Shame/guilt

-Identity issues/loss of self

-Self-esteem/confidence

-Grief and loss

-Intrusive thoughts/self-harm

-Abuse

I can offer short or long term therapy, sessions can vary from 6, to open-ended. 

The first counselling session can bring mixed feelings for individuals, to help put your mind at ease, the first session is about us getting to know one another, and this can be done at your own pace.  In the first session we will also go through a contract together if it this has not already been completed through email.

Before the first session, I offer a free initial 15 minute phone call, to talk about the reasons you may be looking for therapy and to find out if and how I can best support you. It is also a chance to explore whether we both feel the therapeutic relationship will be a good fit, after the first session there is no obligation to continue to work with me, it needs to feel right for yourself and that is what is important.