Psychotherapy & Counselling

People can benefit from different approaches in individual counselling and therapy. I suggest meeting for 2 consultations as part of an initial assessment and feedback process. This gives us both an opportunity to assess the presenting issues and history as well as experience how the 'fit' of working together feels.

I offer experienced Relationship Counselling for couples and for individuals who are experiencing challenges within their partner relationships. Relationship counselling can be an important investment and a forum to build stronger relationships or to separate better.

Marriage presents unique opportunities and challenges: evolving personal paths, complex finances, parenting, in-laws, and balancing marriage commitments with career commitments. Problems sometimes turn into chronic issues like communication breakdown, financial conflict, trust betrayal, and intimacy decline. Therapies like The Couples Developmental Model and The Gottman Method, offer approaches to tackle these marital difficulties and strengthen a couple's bond.

Navigating a relationship can present a unique set of hurdles for couples. Whilst each couple is distinct, many duos encounter common challenges throughout their journey together. Recognizing and addressing these issues constructively is key to fostering a strong and lasting bond. Therapy approaches like the Couples Developmental Model, Gottman Methods, Cognitive behavior and Psychodynamic - Systems model help. They can guide improving communication, building resilience in emotional bonds, improving problem-solving, and offering tailored solutions to strengthen couple relationships.

Depression is an experience that can cause periodic or persistent sadness/loss of interest, low mood and motivation, and self-undermining thoughts & behaviors. Sometimes people may experience mixed anxiety and depression. It is important to recognize that acknowledging depressed mood is not a sign of weakness, and that engaging in counselling or Psychotherapy can be a way of better resourcing yourself. Counselling and/or Psychotherapy can be helpful processes that can identify and better work though life situations that may be causing depressed feelings and behaviors. They can also help to build new understandings and strategies for moving forward.

Good Supervision & Coaching provides Professionals with a forum for self care - important when undertaking the challenging work of caring for and/or managing others. Supervision integrates key human relations theories and tools, whilst also providing a safe place for critical reflection about our self in relationship/s with others in our workplace environments.

Online Counselling/Therapy can be a good option for some people. It has obviously been a vital link for people engaged in Counselling and Therapy during the COVID era – however I have used it as a medium for working with some individuals and couples for some years prior to this.