The Therapies I Offer

Counselling, Hypnotherapy and Reiki.

Counselling

I am a supportive and empathetic therapist, who provides a safe, non-judgmental and confidential environment for clients to explore their difficulties. I believe that the experience of sharing difficult feelings can make a real difference and I believe that my role is to listen and to never judge.

My Approach to Counselling

I have a "Humanistic Person-Centred" approach to supporting you.

This means that:

I seek to provide warmth and empathy;

I endeavour not to analyse or judge, simply to engage in your experience with you;

I believe that through gaining a deeper understanding of your experience we can uncover the potential for change.

Apart from using Person Centred Counselling I believe that in order to develop as a counsellor and to meet the needs of my clients I have found it necessary to understand and incorporate my own philosophy, theory, and practice.  During my training I studied the use of different approaches and in my experience found that therapy can be tailored to suit the needs of the client.  Every person and their process is unique and we all have the ability to grow and for change to occur. I believe change and growth can continue to occur through the unlocking of past experience and insight into unconscious behaviour, which occurs in the counselling relationship.  Counselling can help to shift stuck emotions and to assist the client to move forward into more balanced emotional experiences.

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Hypnotherapy

Hypnosis is a mental state or set of attitudes and beliefs usually induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which is commonly composed of a series of preliminary instructions and suggestions, a trance-like state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestibility and in which suppressed memories maybe experienced - the art or skill of hypnotism.

The client is not put into a deep sleep, is aware of his/her surroundings and will always be in control.  The therapist cannot make the client do anything they don’t want to do.

Hypnosis can be used for various reasons such as psychological and physical problems, for pain, addiction or just simply for relaxation and to deal with stress and much more.  Hypnotherapy can be a very useful tool when used in conjunction with counselling.

Hypno-psychotherapy may be useful when seeking to resolve specific problems, physical ailments, habits, for personal development.

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Reiki

Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese word meaning ‘Universal Life-Force Energy’.  Reiki practitioners have the ability to channel this energy to heal themselves and others.  Reiki energy is a gentle, powerful energy which can help to heal mind, body, spirit and life.  It works on the principle that all illnesses and states of diseases in our lives are created first in the energy field around our body.  They then show up in our physical body.

Reiki can help by working on the energies surrounding and within our body to bring those energies back into balance and release any blockages.  Once our energies are in balance and flowing freely our body can begin to heal.

Also a Reiki treatment is good for relaxation and a great stress reliever.

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