Encounter Counselling

Providing integrative, practical, interactive, solution-focused therapy, my treatment approach is to provide support and practical feedback to help clients resolve current problems and change long-standing behavioural patterns on their own. With great sensitivity and understanding I help my clients to find solutions to a wide range of life challenges and psychological issues.

I provide therapy for::
• Individual adult and young persons counselling and life coaching
• Cognitive & negative thinking
• Life transitions
• Helping clients to explore and get free from their long-term emotional and
behavioural negative patterns.
• Holistic Therapy: emotional, mental, rational, behavioural, physical & spiritual.

By combining a combination of tailored individual therapy for the client, I help from many different perspectives and increase the chances of success.
I offer a safe refuge where individuals are encouraged to identify and connect with their inner self, those whom they care for and for their environment.
Life can be full of problems, anxieties, dead-end situations or just feels empty sometimes. During our individual counselling sessions, we can help you identify and understand your particular situation. Together we can work on finding the courage to address your situation and initiate positive changes in your life.

Where can individual counselling help? Personal enrichment, self-determination, dealing with many types of abuse. depression and anxiety, loss and trauma, stress, relationship difficulties, self-defeating behaviour, phobias, addictions & anger management.

HOW COUNSELLING CAN HELP YOU
I help people to understand their feelings and needs. Together we develop the steps and daily tools necessary to initiate positive changes in your life. This is how we do it:
• Discuss current problems or goals
• Identify early problems & solving skills
• Examine patterns of relating to others
• Develop goal-oriented strategies
• Assess personal resources
• Learn tools and techniques for changing old patterns of behaviour and
implementing decisions and choices

ABOUT ME
I have been working in the counselling field for some years with hurting people and have a wealth of experience to offer my clients including therapy for depression, relationships issues and anxiety problems. Find out more about the therapy and feel free to contact me at any time to find out more about my approach and the types of counselling I offer.

For the past nine years I have worked with the probation service and the youth offending service which has included in depth work with adults and young people.

• Providing intervention plans ranging from all types of issues from: offending
behaviour, actions & consequences, victim awareness, positive decision
making, building self esteem, emotional development, loss of temper, family &
relationship conflict, self awareness, substance use, stress, depression and
many other areas of expertise & liaising with other professionals from mental
health workers, teachers and drugs workers.
• Prior to this for over 16 years I worked very extensively and primarily with
heroin users and their families, and also other problematic drug/alcohol users
and the homeless as a street outreach worker and addiction counsellor in the
UK & USA.
• Schools & Educational Facilities: I am available for ‘one to one’ client work for
young people and those who have behavioural and attachment difficulties.
• I have an Advanced Diploma qualification in Integrative Psychotherapy & also
an NVQ Level 3 Early Interventions with Young People with Substance
Misuse Problems and also a Certificate in the Management of Problematic Drug
Use geared particularly to working with adults and also over 20 years of
experience working with substance users.

I am accredited with the National Counselling Society (MNCS) and a member with the British Association Counsellors & Psychotherapists (MBACP) and adhere strictly to there Code of Ethics & Counselling practice