Counselling: Office based - Online - Phone
Couples Counselling * Individual Counselling * Coaching * Cognitive hypnotherapy
Welcome, are you looking for a counsellor within West Yorkshire or Online? Looking to be supported to make the changes you want to make? This page has all the basic info you need, more detailed information is accessed via the dropdown headers.
I am a fully qualified counsellor with many thousands of hours experience, based in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, working with clients from across the Ridings, throughout the UK and UK nationals living or working abroad.
It can feel quite anxiety provoking to meet with a stranger who is paid to help you to figure yourself out - it is my privilege to be invited into your experiences and I aim to help you to relax into your account of how you find yourself here today. Understanding how life has conspired to bring you to this point allows you a springboard to change. if you have felt stuck in a problem for some time, then you already have lots of resilience, how much easier can it feel to use that resilience to achieve happiness rather than putting up with a life that doesn't satisfy you? Change is the one constant in life, being helped to change is a positive move towards feeling ok in your own skin, ok in your relationship to yourself and others, or deciding to move away from them.
I provide private and confidential couples counselling and general and relationship counselling for individuals and longer term therapy for couples and individuals in Wakefield and online. I also offer coaching and hypnotherapy for individuals. I work with adults and over 16's.
Therapy for individuals covers all life issues, you might want help with anxiety, depression, self-worth, social anxiety, work problems, relationship problems, 'what next' or 'who am I' worries, or picking up life again after a bereavement or other loss. More information: click here
Beginning changes in your own life or your couple relationship can also feel like a secret struggle, hard to tell family and friends about because you don't know how they may assess you. Part of my helping work is to coach you through a speed of change that feels natural and workable for you. and also towards your outcomes, not mine. I promote changes to yourself and the areas of life you find difficult, I will help to know how to change, I won't tell you what to change.
I am a Relate qualified Couples Counsellor , I work with the connections between people and the changes life events create. In couples work I am focused on the health of the relationship, not who is right or wrong. One person desire may desire change more than the other and I aim to belance both needs. Couples therapy covers all life stages or relationship, from fairly new relationships to decades spent together, its never too early or too late to iron out problems if you are both on board about changing. Specialist couples therapy offers a way to look at your relationship differently, gain a clear understanding of how you want the relationship to continue, how it will look when you have both made changes. Sometimes clients decide it is time to part ways, if there are children involved it is particularly important for the adults to understand each other, be on the same page, in order to effectively co-parent. More information:here
A frequent theme in my work, blending families together in second (or more) relationships brings its own challenges, especially where children are involved. How do we share our time out between us as a couple, looking after all our children, the children we already had and the children from this relationship? Maintaining the original contacts for your children, their grandparents and wider family, can feel quite daunting. Fitting it all together can squeeze the couple until they wonder if it is ever going to feel easier. Often taking a different perspective can allow a birds eye view of the situation, andleave behind the stuck in the mud view. The situation may be happening to your friends or colleagues too, hearing their story may allow you compassion for them and yourself, the solution that you look for during counselling is still uniquely yours.
My office in Horbury, Wakefield, supports clients from the whole of Yorkshire and beyond
Horbury, Wakefield is ideally placed, close to the M1 Junction 40 and M62 interchange at Junction 29/42, for easy access from Leeds, in the north, Barnsley and Sheffield to the south, Dewsbury and Huddersfield to the west, Pontefract and Selby to the east, and further afield.
Counselling online - throughout the UK and for Ex-pats.
Therapy can help you to make sense of your experiences and find your feet again in a changed world of relationships
My therapy is tailored to you and your needs, every person has different challenges.
I offer:
> counselling for individuals and couples - without a restrictive contract on attendance, we agree how it will work. I usually see clients for fortnightly appointments, especially if they are travelling a long way. Weekly appointments are possible if wanted.
> if you are in a couple and your partner does not want to attend then its ok to come alone and have support for yourself.
> one off support sessions - please note these need to be planned sessions, counselling is not crisis intervention. I aim to provide an initial session of counselling within ten working days, if you are flexible on times, and ongoing sessions within another week or so for daytime appointments, evening sessions may be a few weeks. I generally hold weekly or fortnightly sessions, they can be at the same time and day each time, or vary according to your needs. A face to face session can also be an online session the next time, etc. It can be better for your own long term benefit to commit to working to a resolution, not to sweep feelings back under the carpet as soon as you start to feel better. If you feel unable to commit, try a 'one-off' fsession first.
Further details on the calendar page click here
Covering Barnsley - Dewsbury- Huddersfield - Pontefract - Leeds- York - Wetherby - Harrogate and UK and Online.
Couples Counselling * Individual Counselling * Coaching * Cognitive hypnotherapy
How to book
Please telephone me with your diary at hand, or send me an email with suggestions for appropriate days and times to meet. My work times are on the 'fees, work times, contact' page.
If you are booking for a couple please consult your partner first, get their permission and their availability.
If either of the couple are already receiving individual therapy of any type, please let me know the type and focus of this therapy and we can talk together about what is possible.
I prefer that clients phone or email me.
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