There are many reasons why we need help at times. Our counsellors can offer support across a wide range of areas, from addressing unwanted behaviours to dealing with life situations. If you are looking for help, then the information below may help you understand what you are looking for and the counsellors who maybe able to support you. This list is by no means exhaustive, and our counsellor information pages lists all the areas that each counsellor has experience with. If you are worried or concerned about someone you think may be a harm to themselves or others, then you should contact your GP immediately.
Who we work with
Individuals
Children and teenagers
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Groups and Corporate teams
Children and teenagers
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Groups and Corporate teams
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Addictions & substance abuse
Addiction can be described as the state someone is in when they can no longer control certain behaviours or have a desire to keep carrying out an activity, despite it being damaging to themselves and their relationships. This can include gambling, alcohol, smoking, sex – any activity that has turned from what is considered a ‘normal’ activity into an all-consuming, more destructive behaviour.
Adoption
Whether you are an adoptee, a birth parent of a child you have had adopted or you are part of an adoptive family, counselling can help you navigate the emotional impact of this process.
Anger and anger management
Managing how you react to different situations without the destructive force of anger or helping you understand how to manage others who impact your life with their reaction to anger.
Anxiety and depression
Whilst its normal to experience periods of anxiety throughout life, when this becomes overwhelming, counselling can help you understand and manage these feelings. Similarly with depression, we all experience sadness at times, but when this feeling is affecting day-day to life, counselling can help you explore and understand its roots and identify new ways of managing it.
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Bereavement
Understanding how you can best navigate the stages of grief, managing your feelings and those of people around you. Helping a child understand and cope with bereavement.
Bipolar disorder
A condition that makes it difficult to regulate emotions and moods, with the sufferer experiencing intense periods of manic and depressive feelings and behaviours. This can overwhelm both the sufferer and the people around them.
Bullying
Defined as repeated and unwanted behaviour intended to hurt, undermine, and coerce another person. Could be verbal, physical, indirect, or cyber based.
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Career coaching
Evaluating your current situation and exploring new opportunities and paths to a more fulfilling work / life balance.
Cultural / ethnic issues
Experience of discrimination / inequality & inclusion because of cultural or ethnic differences can cast a long shadow. By addressing cultural/ethnic issues through counselling and therapy, you can begin to make it safer to talk and navigate the emotional impact.
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Dementia
The term used to describe a range of progressive conditions that affect the brain. You may be coming to terms with a diagnosis for yourself or for a family member or friend. Counselling can help in managing early stages of dementia as well as a support for carers.
Domestic Abuse
Moving on from an abusive relationship, whether physical, emotional, sexual or mental can be overwhelming. Counselling can help make sense of the mix of emotions, whether you are still in that relationship or have moved on.
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Eating disorders and body perception
Anorexia nervosa, bulimia and compulsive eating are the most common of these complex mental health issues. Counselling can support your journey back to a healthy relationship with food and your body.
End of life
Struggling to cope with your own or a loved one’s diagnosis to process the emotional and practical issues affecting you.
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Gender dysphoria
The term used to describe the distress felt by someone who’s gender does not match that which they were born with. Counselling can help the individual as well as family and friends looking to understand and support.
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Infertility
Managing the hugely stressful and emotional time that surrounds IVF or acknowledgment of childlessness.
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LGBTQ+ counselling
Dealing with our own or other people’s emotions and reactions to our being anyone who does not fit society’s heteronormative concepts and ideals.
Life coaching
Taking time to understand our journey so far and the path we wish to take in the future. Discovering new strengths in ourselves. Identifying new challenges.
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Menopause
Coming to terms with this stage in our life, the emotional and physical changes and challenges for women and our families.
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Neuro diversity such as ADHD / Autism diagnosis
As carers, seeking support to help understand and manage us and those we care for. Counselling can also help manage and understand your own diagnosis, navigating your way through the impact on your life and your relationships.
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OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorders)
A complex, anxiety-based illness that can have a massive impact on those suffering and those around them.
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Performance coaching for businesses
Helping to develop an employee’s skill set to develop new skills and approaches, normally linked to a career progression plan.
Personal development courses and workshops
Bespoke courses for businesses and teams around core business performance needs.
Phobias
An anxiety-based disorder that can be triggered by a specific event, object, or situation. The sufferer can experience unpleasant and intense fear that in extreme cases can severely restrict day-to-day life.
Post-natal depression
Understanding and managing yourself or your partner’s reaction to a new baby. Sometimes called ‘the baby blues’.
Pregnancy and birth
Understanding the range of emotions, relationship changes and the preparation for a major life event, counselling can help you, your partner and family navigate this period.
Pregnancy miscarriage, loss, termination, and abortion
Areas that are emotionally traumatic and sometimes impossible to discuss with those closest to you. Counselling provides a confidential and safe space to acknowledge, explore, understand, and come to terms with your feelings and experiences.
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Redundancy, retirement
Redundancy and retirement can trigger a range of emotions, from a sense of failure to one of new beginnings. Counselling can help you explore how you are feeling and make sense of your next step will be.
Relationships
A key part of our lives, from our families and friends to our work lives and daily social interactions, relationships evolve and change all the time. Encountering problems in our relationships can be traumatic and life changing. Counselling (couples and individual sessions) can help us understand and manage relationships with ourselves and those around us.
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Schizophrenia (self and others)
A mental health condition that can affect your ability to think clearly or be able to distinguish between reality and fantasy. For a sufferer, learning to live with schizophrenia, supported by the right health and metal care is vital. For a carer, counselling can help provide a safe, supportive place to acknowledge and discuss your own experiences and emotions.
Self-confidence
Suffering from low self-confidence can have a huge impact on the quality of our lives, in our personal relationships, our jobs and our day-to-day activities. Counselling can provide a space in which we can explore experiences, learn approaches, and develop our confidence levels.
Self-harm
A cycle of overwhelming feelings that result in a person self-harming to express something they can’t put into words, followed by short term release and back into overwhelming feelings. This can be triggered by a specific event, or a build up over time. Counselling is part of the process in which you can start to understand the triggers and new ways of coping. For a parent or partner, counselling can help you better understand how to help, support and understand the reasons behind the self-harming and manage your own emotions.
Separation and divorce
When a relationship comes to an end, the impact on you and your family is likely to be difficult. From managing the emotional fall out to dealing with the practicalities, counselling can help you, your partner or your children face the challenges and understand the emotional responses.
Sexual abuse
Often one of the most difficult things to discuss. Counsellors who are specially trained in this area, including child abuse, will be able to offer a safe, understanding, and non-judgemental space to discuss the trauma, emotions and impact of sexual abuse on survivors.
Shame
Feelings of constant judgement by others, of inadequacy, disconnection, and unworthiness. Shame can be triggered by life events and experiences. Counselling will help you explore the root causes and adopt new strategies for moving forward.
Stress
Everyone faces levels of stress in their lives, a normal reaction to events and experiences. However, constant or prolonged stress can have a huge impact on our physical and mental health. Counselling can help look at the causes of stress and allow you to develop new coping mechanisms and responses.
Suicidal thoughts
If you or someone you know is in immediate danger and cannot keep safe:
Go to the nearest A&E dept
Call 999 if you cannot get to a hospital
If neither of these is an option, you can call the Samaritans on 116 123
If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, then a counsellor who specialises in this area can help you.
Go to the nearest A&E dept
Call 999 if you cannot get to a hospital
If neither of these is an option, you can call the Samaritans on 116 123
If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, then a counsellor who specialises in this area can help you.
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Trauma and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
Usually caused by a distressing event or series of events. Can take days, weeks or even years for trauma to surface. A counsellor specially trained in managing trauma will work with you to help you process, evaluate, and understand thoughts and feelings associated with the trauma.
