Are you a young person who is struggling with difficult feelings? Do you feel like your parents don’t fully understand how hard it is to be young? Or maybe you feel like your friends’ lives are accelerating at a faster rate to yours.
I have extensive experience and interest in working with young people in their twenties, particularly but not exclusively graduates, who are navigating the challenging life transition between graduation and employment.
Prior to counselling, I worked as a teacher and I have recently spent three years mentoring students at the University of Sheffield on educational issues: coping with dyslexia, understanding ADHD and Autistic Spectrum Conditions, procrastination and perfectionalism.
My areas of expertise and interest include:
Acceptance, in relation to being a carer or sibling to someone on the autistic spectrum.
Anxiety.
Autoimmune conditions.
Life transitions.
Low mood.
Stress.
Social context issues, including how much harder life now is if you are young.
I have a warm, down to earth nature, that will help put you at ease, a genuine interest in this age group and the ability to draw from a wide range of interventions, including NLP, hypnotherapy, Integrative counselling and a strong interest in how social context impacts our well being.
Previous clients have commented on how my lived experience of the education system has helped them feel understood. While others have valued my empathy and awareness at how the cost of living crisis is disproportionately impacting on young people and leading to stress with housing and employment, which can indirectly impact on relationships.
How can hypnotherapy help you?
Hypnotherapy is a brief, often deeply relaxing, highly effective therapy. Through the use of well chosen words that we will discuss together, imagery and sometimes metaphor, hypnotherapy can enable you to make lasting changes with deeply ingrained patterns of behaviour.
Areas of expertise and interest include:
Changing a response to stress or a specific stressful situation.
Driving issues, including driving tests and motor way driving.
Exam calm.
Interview calm.
Phobias.
Smoking cessation.
Weight management.
Please see the testimonials on the hypnotherapy page for more information.
For a free, twenty minute phone consultation or email “chat” to find out how counselling or hypnotherapy can help you, please call or text me on 07954338480 or email me at [email protected].
What to expect in your first counselling session. In your first session, I will do everything possible to help you feel at ease and welcome. Your first session will take the form of an Initial Assessment session. This might feel like an easier way to begin your sessions because it involves me asking you a number of questions, in order to gather information which will provide us with a framework for how to work effectively together. Your subsequent sessions will provide you with the space to talk, to be fully heard and validated as well as offering you well being strategies, which can help reduce anxiety, low mood, worry and stress. You will be offered regular session reviews to make sure that you are happy with the progress that you are making and only coming for sessions when it is necessary for you to do so.
What to expect in your first hypnotherapy session.
Again, I will do everything possible to put you at ease, help you feel welcome and answer any questions that you might have. There will also be a short Initial Assessment and some introductory hypnosis so that you can begin experiencing it straightaway. I check client progress each session and offer a free, fifteen minute recording after the second session. It is generally thought that six sessions of hypnotherapy are required for a "single issue". Smoking cessation follows a different format of two 1.5 hour sessions, spaced a week apart.