Counselling

We can all face issues in life, counselling is for people that experience all kinds of difficulties that impact on their well-being and happiness. Counselling sessions focus on you to help you gain more self-understanding and acceptance, sort out confused feelings, or make different choices that will empower you in a positive way.

Our counsellors are qualified in a variety of approaches:

Person-Centred (https://www.bacp.co.uk/about-therapy/types-of-therapy/person-centred-counselling

CBT Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (https://www.bacp.co.uk/about-therapy/types-of-therapy/cognitive-behavioural-therapy)

Solution Focused (https://www.bacp.co.uk/about-therapy/types-of-therapy/solution-focused-brief-therapy)

Our counsellors have experience working with a range of issues including anxiety, panic attacks, stress, low mood, depression, bereavement and loss, sleep problems, self-confidence, anger, self-harm, trauma, abuse, LGBT+ , eating and weight/shape distress. We work with adults and young people. See ‘counselling what we do’ for further details.

Coaching

Coaching is for anyone who wants to find deeper meaning, is going through big changes, or wants to make a significant change in their life, but isn’t sure how. We can all struggle with goal-setting because we’re unsure how to gain clarity and take action that leads to a profound shift in our life.

Mike has expertise in diverse approaches including:
Transactional Analysis – Eric Berne
Parallel Processing in Coaching – Harold Searle
Somatic Coaching & Leadership Embodiment– Wendy Palmer
Fields of Conversations – Amanda Ridings
EQ – Daniel Goleman
Gestalt Principles 2 Chair – Gestalt
NLP - John Grinder & Richard Bandler
Experiential Learning Theory - David Kolb
Anti-Oppressive Practice - Paulo Freire

Mike has extensive expertise working with self confidence, overcoming creative blocks and self-limiting beliefs, weight/shape and healthy habits, work life balance, living with ADHD, increased interpersonal skills/dealing with emotions and conflict, greater resilience and accountability.