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Are you struggling with the demands of your role? Dealing with stressful or traumatic circumstances can affect your mental wellbeing. Perhaps it's time to help yourself as well as others...

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Firstly, huge respect to anyone who works in the emergency services or social care. I've done it and it demands a lot from you personally, and of your family.

While the importance of mental wellbeing is talked about much more since my 8 years with Cambridgeshire Constabulary, there is so often a culture of just getting on with it.

But let's be clear, what you deal with on a regular basis is not normal life. As I found out from my time in the Child and Domestic Abuse units, friends and family don't get it, or it's too horrible for them to want to hear about it; and for your colleagues this is just a part of the job. Maybe you don't want HR or others to know you are struggling. So, it's hard to know where to turn – and people who do such an amazing job are forced to suffer in silence or leave the service. But does it have to be like that?

Why counselling?

We spend time looking after everyone else, but rarely think about investing in our mental health and growth as a person. But when you think about it, that type of self-care might just be the most important of all.

Counselling can offer a confidential, safe, non-judgemental space to work through difficulties and find out what might help you cope. Whether it's work-based stress, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), trauma or problems in your personal life, counselling can help you rediscover the true you. Untangle the chaos in your mind. Find new ways of coping. New ways of being.

Where, when and how?

Sessions take place either in my counselling studio in Werrington village, or on walk and talk sessions.

My method of counselling relies very much on establishing a trusting relationship, where you feel safe to explore your problems without judgement. From here we will go on a journey, where we work together to explore what is going on for you and what might help. Every counselling journey is different and unique to you.

I have a huge amount of experience that I bring to sessions, and am professionally trained in person-centred counselling cognitive behavioural therapy and psychodynamic therapy. When suitable, I also bring Internal Family Systems therapy, Neurolinguistic Programming, Outdoor therapy, Mindfulness and Trauma-Informed counselling methods.

Together we will go on a journey of self-discovery that can be life-changing.

Satisfied clients

From work-related stress, depression, anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and relationship problems; to grief, abusive childhoods, trauma and self-esteem issues, clients have found new ways of coping and different ways of being.

But you don't have to feel that you have a mental health problem to benefit from counselling. The journey of growth and understanding yourself better in your personal or professional life can be hugely beneficial wherever you are at.

Even to this day I’m still humbled and surprised at the transformation clients see in themselves through counselling, with many describing it as life-changing. See what my clients are saying here.

If you need help, give me a call or send me a message to book a free, no-obligation telephone consultation to see if counselling is right for you.