I offer you a safe, quiet space to guide and support you to take small steps to enable change for a positive brighter future xx

COUNSELLING

Counselling and therapy can be a powerful journey, if you can be brave enough to take that first step!

I have 15 years' experience as a therapist. I offer a safe, quiet space to support you to heal through self-love to remind you to love and care for yourself and to embrace your worthiness and find your inner peace.

My therapy journey started 18 years ago when I lost my Grandad, this was my first experience of losing someone who was very dear to me. My Grandad impacted my life in so many amazing ways, he was an inspiring male role model and one that continues to touch my life to this day.

The impact of losing my Grandad was one that took me on an emotional roller coaster of a ride, a loss that I was not emotionally prepared for. My Grandad's passing took me to bereavement therapy. My therapy experience was a positive one, but unexpectedly it also opened up childhood and teenage negative life experiences and unresolved emotions that had been locked away for some time. Some of the things that started to come up or me were linked to my dad  (a figure that left the family home when I was 6 and was never really involved in mine or my brothers life in any positive way1  My dad was an alcoholic which impacted his own mental health and eventually his passing!   I had also experienced an unhealthy physical and emotional abusive relationship in my early teenage and adult years, some things that I started to recognise needed to be worked through and heal the emotional impact they had been having on my life as a young adult!

Being brought up in a single parent family by my amazing mum has stood me in good sted! Not knowing later in life I would experience and have to navigate too, being a single mum!!  Going deeper and healing from my younger days has been a journey for me, having to go to emotional places and experiences I would rather not! But opening myself up to the process of therapy and counselling over the years, has most definitely had a positive impact in my counselling practice.

 Having an insight into the process of therapy, the tough feelings, sadness, pain, fear and blocks that can be a part of the healing journey has allowed my self to grow an connect more with myself but also allow me to connect with clients and their experiences too!

"Always remember , we are all a work in progress, always learning and always growing!"

Through fate I suppose, I came away from my grief support being led to signing up for a counselling skills course, which then led me to continue my therapy training and yes 18 years later, here I am, still here, and still growing, learning and building my therapy practice! Still supporting people from all walks of life, with lots of life experiences, sitting along side clients, to support them through hurt and trauma, to give hope and enable healing.

My work is predominately  online via Zoom and also telephone counselling, but I do have limited in person, face to face appointment

 My hypnotherapy support is in person. Please do be aware that I do have a long waiting list for my hypnotherapy support.

Please do message me for face to face availability.

Working remotely allows me to offer and reach a wider client base across the UK.

I have a holistic organic approach within my therapy work and connect with each person I work with on different levels.

Your counselling journey is unique to you, and I offer a calm and safe space to guide you in exploring and understanding your life experiences, holding that space to allow healing from whatever it is that you have experienced in your life or going through at this moment in time.

 Please do send me a message and we can have a chat about any counselling or hypnotherapy support you are looking for and see how I could support you on your journey to feeling more positive and brighter about your future.

I work with the following counselling approaches.

 Behavioural therapy,

CBT,

Cognitive therapy,

Person Centred therapy,

 Psychodynamic and Integrative therapy,

Mindfulness,

Solution Focused brief therapy,

Attachment based therapy.

Mentoring

Hypnotherapy

For issues such as

Affairs and betrayals, Anger Management, Anxiety, Attachment, Bereavement, Family Separation, Bullying, Burnout, Career, Depression, Feeling Sad, Jealousy, Loneliness, Low self Confidence, Low self Esteem, Menopause, OCD, Older People Counselling, Panic Attacks, Phobias, PTSD, Post-natal Depression, Relationship Issues, Separation and Divorce, Social Anxiety, Stress, Childhood Trauma, Work Related Stress.

I am also a trained hypnotherapist. My work as a hypnotherapist involves supporting people to heal and release from experiences such as - Anxiety, Childhood Trauma, Inner Child Healing, Grief and Loss, Negative Limiting Belief's OCD and PTSD.

Do take a look at my hypnotherapy page for more information and do send me a message to talk more about my hypnotherapy support.

My therapy practice is predominately  online working remotley via Zoom, allowing me to support a wide range of cleints from around the UK.  I do have a limited availabilty for in person fact to face sessions and of course my hypnotherapy support is in person.  I am based in Hale Bank, Widnes offering my counselling and hypnotherpy support, accessable to the surrounding areas of Widnes, Halton, St Helens, Warrington and Merseyside.

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

I have full enhanced up to date DBS which can be found here - https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

I am a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and you can find me on the register here - https://www.bacp.co.uk/about-therapy/using-our-therapist-directory/

I am fully insured

Reaching out for support can be hard and it is not easy, but when you take that first step and say "I am struggling, I need help", your future self will thank you for doing so.

Please do feel free to call me on 07757711056 for a free initial informal chat about my therapy work and find out how I could support you or your child.

If you feel more comfortable, you can also text, whatsapp or message me - HERE

Recourses you might find helpful

www.samaratines.org

 www.giveusashout.org - Or text SHOUT to 85258

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