Weston Super Mare Counselling

As a trained Counsellor and Educator in schools, I have wide experience in working with individuals and couples of all ages and in a wide range of contexts. Every client brings their own unique story and set of challenges to therapy. This, therefore, requires an experienced, considered and informed approach to enabling clients to learn to think and respond differently to situations they currently find is impacting them negatively. It is a journey to affecting positive change! In our therapy, I use an integrative eclectic approach. This means adapting evidence based therapeutic strategies, methods, and approaches to suit the client's needs, thought processes, behaviours and personality. Through this approach, we collaboratively work together to plan our sessions in order to work towards a specific goal in short-term or long-term therapy. The journey to change is not without its challenge. The very nature of therapy often exposes our vulnerable selves and associated feelings and emotions depending on one's life experiences and how these have affected them. It may be that the client has not fully processed or come to terms with a trauma, experience and/or event from the long-term or short-term past. For others it is managing the challenges of life, relationships, work and emotions in the present. You will be challenged to consider their specific behaviours, emotions and actions from different viewpoints and perspectives, and the impact this has had/is having on themself and others. However, at all times through this challenge, they will be guided and supported in an authentic, respectful, safe, and confidential environment.