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 problems.
I work within an experiential constructivist model of personality and focus on how your current thoughts, feelings and actions are shaping your life. Your personal and family history, your habits or patterns of behaviour, and the meaning taken from particular events in the past have all contributed to you holding your own map or model of the way things are in the world. Your personal “model of the world” has shaped your life experiences. Through our work together you will be able to understand a little more about how you have given meaning to events and built your “model of the world.” I will pay close attention to the words and body language you use to communicate thoughts and feelings. Though our work together, we can reveal what has been hidden so that you have the opportunity to better understand the influence of past thoughts and emotions on current events. If you choose, you will have the opportunity to update your “model of the world” and build more resourceful patterns based on your individual strengths. I am compassionate and listen carefully to understand conscious desires and automatic and unconscious processes. My training and experience is based in Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy and I can also use Hypnosis and Positive Psychotherapy approaches to assist you to meet your 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.
I have a strong interest in how our own sense of identity and character strengths serve as guide for our emotions, motivations and mental toughness. Sometimes we sabotage our potential and our best self in order to be the person we believe ourselves to be, or be the person we believe we should be, or ought to be.
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 & Outdoor Therapy”
- 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 am the current chair of the Neuro-Linguistic Psychotherapy and Counselling Association (NLPtCA) - an Accrediting Organisational Member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
My Practice
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In-person, outdoors
Outdoor ‘walk and talk’ or ‘sit and chat’ sessions based near Kendal
Remote, online
via Phone / Skype / Face time / Zoom / Teams
Charges
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What is bothering you? |
Employee referral |
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Next Steps
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Please get in touch if you would like to book in to see me or discuss how I may be able to help.
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Employee referral - for Counselling / Psychotherapy or Leadership Coaching email me.
Individual and group supervision - For counsellors, psychotherapists and practitioners. Find out more.
Individual and group supervision - For counsellors, psychotherapists and practitioners. Find out more.
