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.

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 in my life 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 a whole lot of childhood and teenage negative life experiences and unresolved emotions that had been locked away for some time 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 way and is also know longer with us!)  an unhealty physical and emotional abusive relationship and some other negative life experiences. 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 also opening myself up to the process of therapy and counselling has most definetely had a positive impact in my counselling profession. Having an insight into the process of therapy, the tough feelings, blocks and fear that can be connected to reaching out for support and going through the journey to come out the other end!

Through fate I suppose I came away from this 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 on my therapy journey and still supporting adults and young people to sit along side them, to support them through hurt and trauma, to give hope and enable healing.

I am based in Halebank working from home and accessable to the areas of Widnes, Halton, St Helens, Warrington and Merseyside.

I have a holistic approach within in 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 help you explore, understand and guide you to heal from whatever it is that you have experienced in your life and going through at this moment in time.

I offer face to face or remote (Zoom)  counselling session. 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,

Walk and talk therapy,

Coaching,

Attachment based therapy.

Hypnotherapy

For issues such as

Affairs and betrayals, Anger Management, Anxiety, Attachment, Bereavement, Family Separation, Bullying, Burnout, Career, Child Counselling, 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 experiences such as - Grief and Loss, Anxiety, Childhood Trauma, PTSD, OCD, Negative Thought Patterns and any Negtive Life Experineces.

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

I work from home offering a warm and welcoming enviroment (or very cosy as everyone tells me!) and I am based in Hale Bank, Widnes offering my counselling and hypnotherpy supporet, 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

www.kooth.com

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