How we can help

People come to therapy for all sorts of reasons and in different situations and usually have a sense of being stuck with something they can no longer deal with. It might be a problem that has built up over time, or frustrating feelings that keep repeating. Either way, this can be getting in the way of living your life.

Talking to a trained psychotherapist can help to break unhelpful patterns of thinking and aid greater understanding. You know yourself and your situation best, but a therapist can help see links and patterns you may not have thought of. You and your therapist work together to find new and more effective ways forward.

Therapy can help with many different problems, such as:

Agoraphobia
Alcohol issues
Anger management
Anxiety and low mood
Assertiveness and self-confidence
Bereavement, grief and loss
Body image issues and body dysmorphia
Bullying and harassment
Childhood and historic abuse and trauma
Cocaine and other drug addiction
Couples counselling and marriage problems
Depression and unhappiness
Difficulties being a new parent
Difficulties with emotions and feelings
Eating disorders and issues over food
Family conflict

Family relationships with children and adolescents
Fears around getting older and mortality
Feelings of hopelessness
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Health anxiety
Loneliness and social isolation
Low mood and loss of motivation and purpose
Male identity and men’s issues
Marriage issues
Menopause and life changes issues
Mood swings
Obsessions and intrusive thoughts
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Panic Disorder
Professional and career difficulties
Postnatal depression and baby blues

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Relationship breakdown, separation and divorce
Relationship issues and doubts
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Separation Anxiety Disorder
Self-esteem and low confidence issues
Sexual identity, gender issues, LGBTQ
Situational Depression
Social anxiety
Sleeplessness
Stress and feeling overwhelmed
Suicidal thoughts and Self-harm
Trauma and difficult experiences
Women’s issues
Workplace stress and professional issues

Anxiety is a normal human response to threat and we all need some anxiety to function in the world and to keep ourselves safe. But too much anxiety can be distressing, and we then try to stop ourselves feeling anxious, which can often make things feel even worse.
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Depression is more than just feeling low, it’s a mood disorder which can bring about long-lasting symptoms such as overwhelming sadness, low energy, loss of appetite, and a lack of pleasure in life. Fortunately, therapy has been shown to be effective in helping.
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Relationships should be where we find love, but they can sometimes turn into battle zones. The stage can be set for action-reaction type conflicts. How can we go about unwinding these patterns and finding our way back to the loving feelings that used to be there?
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Anger management Do you get lit up if someone cuts you up on the road? Or if someone’s offhand to you on the phone? Or your child just won’t do what they’re told?

Fears around getting older and mortality There are only two certainties in life – that we will age, and that one day we will die. For some these might be just unwelcome thoughts we push away until something jolts us briefly into awareness, only to push them away again.

PTSD is a mental health condition that some people develop after experiencing or witnessing life-threatening events, like a car accident, fire, war, violent or sexual assault or a natural disaster.

Self-esteem and low confidence Having low self-esteem and a lack of confidence can have significant consequences. It can negatively impact on relationships, on success at work, on social lives, and many areas besides.
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Social anxiety, or fear of social situations, such as talking in front of groups of people etc – is one of the most common mental health conditions, affecting around 13% of people at some point during their lives.
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