As a highly experienced and qualified professional, I can help with many issues, including the following:
Relationship issues:
Romantic relationships (including LGBT+ relationships, polyamorous relationships, open marriages)
Work relationships
Familial relationships (I am particularly experienced in helping clients with difficult mothers and/or difficult fathers)
Friendships
Dealing with narcissistic individuals and family systems
Sex-based issues
Couples counselling
Non-romantic sexual relationships
Dealing with an affair or affairs (yours or someone else’s)
Commitment difficulties
Fear of intimacy
Difficulties making or sustaining relationships
Ending relationships
Improving your internal resources:
Increasing self confidence
Increasing self esteem
Increasing self awareness
Increasing motivation
Improving self care
Fostering or enhancing self acceptance
Increasing feelings of joy & happiness
Increasing assertiveness
Reducing or eliminating self-criticism
Finding criticism easier to receive and respond to
Managing and living with ADHD, ADD and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)
Reducing limiting feelings, beliefs and behaviours:
Eliminating anxiety
Reducing, eliminating or managing stress
Eliminating depression
Eliminating panic attacks
Reducing and managing rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD)
Eliminating fear of failure
Eliminating the need to please others. If this is something you wish to address in therapy with me, the aim would be to provide you with choice. That is, although you may still choose at times to please others, after addressing this issue you will no longer feel that you have to do so.
Managing aggression and anger
Making all feelings, including fear, guilt, shame, grief, hurt and anger, etc, manageable
Exploring, understanding and accepting your true self (and caring less about what other people think of you), including struggles to do with:
Exploring and accepting your sexual identity
Exploring and accepting your gender identity
Understanding, accepting and deciding how to fulfil a desire to cross-dress
Exploring and accepting being gender non-conforming
Exploring and accepting being trans
Exploring how you feel about and/or exploring your desire and concerns about having elective surgery to make your body as you want it and need it to be
Exploring, understanding and accepting your sexual preferences, however unusual you believe them to be
Resolving difficulties arising from a mismatch between how you want to live, feel or be and how you are living (and the reasons for this)
Difficult situations:
Family, marriage or relationship breakdowns and separations
Traumatic events
Bereavements
Life changing injuries
Living with chronic pain – yours or someone else’s
Coming to terms with terminal illness – yours or someone else’s
Managing change
Redundancy
Job loss
Abandonment
Estrangement
Bullying
Difficult relationships
Relocation
Wanting to end a relationship and finding it hard to do so
Abuse & Violence:
Sexual abuse
Physical abuse
Emotional abuse
Verbal abuse
Coercive abuse
Financial abuse
Narcissistic abuse
Sadistic abuse
This could be currently happening to you, affecting a loved one, or relating back to your childhood
I will also work with people who commit abusive acts if they have a workable level of awareness and unhappiness with their own behaviour and a genuine desire for change.
Work-based issues:
Harassment
Bullying
Discrimination
Difficulties working with others
Dealing with difficult people at work
Job dissatisfaction
Lack of self belief and or faith in your own competence
Imposter syndrome / feeling like a fraud
Assertiveness at work
Understanding and overcoming self-harming behaviours
Understanding and eliminating suicidal thoughts
Overcoming eating disorders
Anorexia
Bulimia
Over-eating
Binge-eating
Weight management
Understanding and overcoming non-specified experiences:
A general sense that something’s missing or not right
A general feeling of being unhappy without an identifiable cause
Emptiness
A feeling of being lost or numb
Feeling apathetic
Feeling disconnected from yourself and or other people
Other:
If I’ve not covered something here that you are seeking to address, please do ask if it is an issue I work with.
If I do not have the skills or experience to work with an issue, I shall be transparent about that and if I know and would recommend someone who is appropriately skilled in that area, I shall provide you with their contact details.
Please note that I only work with people over the age of 17. I know a number of skilled child and adolescent psychotherapists and family therapists so please feel free to email, text or call if you’d like me to recommend someone who works with individuals under the age of 17.
My belief is that all people are doing the best they can with the resources they have, and that via counselling, life coaching and therapy individuals can realise resources within themselves that they have so far undervalued or overlooked.