Currently, I’m working online and by telephone.
If you want to find out more about my private practice, Longships Counselling, I’ll be happy to tell you about what to expect. Use my contact form to ask questions or book a free first half-hour session.
Counselling For Adults
It’s when you sense, or realise, that things can’t remain the same and yet you feel frozen, unable to act, and you don’t know what to do. A personal crisis might leave you feeling powerless and anxious. Then you find that the ways in which you generally deal with problems aren’t working: the people you’d usually turn to for support – your partner, family, friends, colleagues – can’t give you what you need, despite their best intentions; they may even be part of the problem, or they might be too involved with the issues you’re facing. You might also experience a deterioration in your physical and mental health. It’s not uncommon to feel anxious, depressed or emotionally fragile. This is when counselling can help.
As your counsellor, my role isn’t to offer advice or to tell you what to do, but to help you find clarity about why you’re experiencing this ‘frozen’ feeling, and how to uncover new ways of living. Counselling sessions provide a space to find, explore and understand new ways of dealing with the issues or problems you’re facing.
I provide friendly individual counselling to adults, and my initial half hour is free.
In this first session we’ll meet to consider what brings you to counselling and what kind of help feels right for you. From that point on, each session will last for fifty minutes and take place weekly, or sometimes less frequently. We may agree a specific number of sessions, which can be increased or decreased as appropriate.
I work with a wide range of issues. My areas of special interest include:
Bereavement
Domestic abuse
Emotional regulation
Estrangement
General anxiety
Identity issues
Long-term health conditions
Loss and Grief
Low self-esteem
Narcissistic abuse
Relationships
Suicidal thoughts
Trauma
Victims of crime
Work and career issues
Counselling For Writers and Artists
I also offer a specialist counselling service for writers and artists engaging with personal experience through their work. It might be the specific issues you’re exploring that you want to bring to counselling; it might be the feelings your current work is giving rise to now; or how people you know, including those your work may be about, might react, should they read or see your work. Equally, it might be the relationship between your actual experience and the writing or art you produce. You may want to consider how you exercise self-care whilst engaging with these experiences. It could even be a combination of any or all of the above, or, of course, something else entirely.
If you want to find out more about my private practice, Longships Counselling, I’ll be happy to tell you about what to expect. Use my contact form to ask questions or book a free first half-hour session.