Psychotherapy & Counselling
I support individuals and couples to face up to emotions, make sense of events and enjoy better mental health.
People come to psychotherapy for individual reasons, often at a particularly challenging or reflective time at work, at home or in life. For many people psychotherapy is a way to get help to understand, manage or change repeating or intense emotions or patterns of thinking or behaving. Some come to handle trauma and repair and rebuild, others to discover more about who they really are and make sense of their life and experiences. It is a privilege for me to get to know someone confidentially as they make the changes important to them.
What’s stopping you?In short, I assist people to identify and resolve the underlying cause of the problem they have been experiencing. I work within an experiential constructivist model of personality - the ‘reality’ you have experienced has led you to construct your own map or model of the way things are in the world. Your “model of the world” has shaped the life you have had, and your current thoughts, feelings and actions.
Updating your “model of the world” will give you new solutions and new experiences of being alive in your work, interests, sports and relationships. Therapy begins with exploring the relevant parts of your personal and family history. We will look at habits or patterns of behaviour and your here and now feelings, thoughts and actions, as well as past decisions and the meaning taken from particular life events. By revealing what has been hidden you can discover, accept and choose new feelings, thoughts and responses. I help people to look back with wisdom so they can better understand the influence of past thoughts and emotions. By focusing on your strengths we find solutions and build patterns that provide a better and more enjoyable set of feelings, thoughts and behaviours. New strategies bring new options. Self-awareness, self-esteem, and personal freedom and choices increase. I am compassionate and listen carefully to your words, body language, conscious choices and automatic and unconscious processes. My initial training and experience is based in Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy and I use a variety of tools and approaches including Positive Psychology, Hypnosis and Outdoor and Adventure Therapy chosen to meet your wants, needs and desired outcomes. |
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Adults and Couples
I work with individuals and couples and a wide range of psychological problems including:
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Qualifications and Experience
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I was drawn to psychotherapy over 10 years ago when I wanted to understand and support others to be who they truly wanted to be. I discovered that applied as much to me as to my clients and during my studies I came to understand and apply what Alfred Adler was referring to when he said "No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes." I assist people to make (new) positive meanings out of their past experiences.
Virginia Satir said "People often have good intentions, but poor communication" We will look at what and how you communicate with yourself and others, and the conscious intentions and deeper motives that lie behind your thoughts, feelings and behaviours. I will help you work with your unconscious (sub-conscious) mind to take action and make changes you want to make. Milton Erickson described it this way: "The thing to do is to get your patient, any way you wish, to do something. . . . It is the patient who does the therapy. The therapist only furnishes the climate, the weather. That's all. The patient has to do all the work." I help people to know themselves, their strengths and their wishes more fully so that they have access to all they need to be happy and successful in their life.
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My training and qualifications include:
- Postgraduate Diploma in Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy
- Registered Psychotherapist with United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP Reg. No 2010161350)
- Accredited Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapist with the Neuro-Linguistic Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (NLPtCA)
- Accredited Supervisor with the Neuro-Linguistic Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (NLPtCA)
- Registered Supervisor with United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP Reg. No 2010161350)
- Certificate in Child and Adolescent Studies and Therapeutic Skills
- Co-author of the IOL Statement of Good Practice on “Outdoor Mental Health Interventions”
- Qualified provider of Mental Toughness (MTQ48), Reiss Motivation Profile (RMP) and Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) assessments
- A range of CPD training including: Working with Couples; Adverse Childhood Experiences; Hypnotherapy; Signs of Safety
- I have a strong interest in how our sense of identity serves as guide for our emotions, character strengths, motivation and mental toughness.
My Practice
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Positive Psychotherapy
Focussing on your strengths, and building positive emotions, positive relationships, engagement, meaning and accomplishment.
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Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy
Modelling and changing your unhelpful patterns of thoughts, feelings and actions.
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Hypnotherapy
Utilising the power of your unconscious mind to help you to make changes you want
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Charges
Employee referral - for Counselling / Psychotherapy or Leadership Coaching follow links below
Individual and group supervision - For counsellors, psychotherapists and practitioners. Find out more here. |
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Next Steps
Please get in touch if you would like to book in to see me or discuss how I may be able to help.
Assessment and initial sessionWhat: Clarity on what the real (underlying) problem is, what you truly want to be different, and a plan withoptions or resources to help you change. Where: 14 Sunnyside, Kendal or online video or phone How long: 90 minutes Book: Call or email to schedule session |
Psychotherapy SessionWhat: Single session of psychotherapy for counselling, improving self, or improvingperformance (following the initial appointment) Where: 14 Sunnyside, Kendal or online video or phone How long: 60 minutes Book: Call or email to schedule session |
