Counselling and Psychotherapy
Sophia Coltart
Donna Calway
Liz Garnham
Mark Hewitson
Jess Rolfe
Lucy Sheehan
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Donna is a BACP registered integrative counsellor. She began her training in 2005 and completed her Master’s degree in 2010.
She is trained in the relational integrative model, which places the relationship between client and practitioner as central to the therapy. Within the safe and supportive space afforded by a trusting relationship, Donna can support clients in their journey to explore past and current difficulties that present a negative impact on emotional wellbeing.
Donna worked within the NHS as both a counsellor and was a registered midwife. She has a specialist interest in ante and post-natal depression and sees both mums and/or dads who have struggled following difficult pregnancies or births.
Donna can offer either short term or long term therapy, depending on the needs of the client. Donna welcomes both individuals and couples.
Donna can be contacted by email or by phone on 07923 577 764.
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Sophia is a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and the National Counselling Society. She has undergone a career change and began her training in 2011 with a foundation degree in Psychotherapy and Counselling at Regents College London. She holds a Psychology Degree, PG Certificate in CBT interventions and has completed a three-year MA in Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is also a Mother and Daughter trained therapist. Sophia has worked in the NHS, Mind, the charitable sector and has a varied portfolio of client experience.
Sophia’s approach is based on working relationally with clients, meaning she focuses on establishing a safe and supportive alliance, before exploring how past experiences and relationships are influencing choices, values and beliefs in the present. She offers a holistic approach which will support you in recognising, and giving space to the difficult emotions and thoughts, which may have been challenging to unpick, understand, and express.
Often taking the first step in seeking support can be the hardest. You want to find a therapist who meets your needs and who you feel comfortable with. Sophia offers a free 30-minute consultation session to all new clients to see whether this would be a good fit to work together.
She works with individuals and couples and can be contacted by email and by phone on 07700 156274.
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Liz is a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy and offers a safe, confidential and non-judgemental space in which you can talk about whatever may be bothering you. Liz's approach is integrative, which means that she draws on different therapeutic disciplines believing that there is not just one way to help in all situations. The therapeutic relationship is central because it is in a trusting relationship that healing and change can happen most effectively. Liz may draw on mindfulness, neuroscience and use creativity if this feels helpful to you. She is adept at working in a solution focused way for short term work, or in a deeper and more explorative way for longer term work.
Liz can be contacted by email.
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Mark is a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He trained with a degree from the University of Gloucester in an integrative person-centred therapy approach.
Integrative person-centred counselling is based in support for the individual on their own unique journey of self-exploration and development. It is centred in a therapeutic healing relationship. Acknowledging that much of our difficulty and trauma arises in the context of important relationships, such as family and early life, and is best worked upon in a trusting relational context such as can develop in counselling and therapy.
He has also trained in mindfulness and meditation in a Buddhist context and has over thirty years of professional experience teaching mindfulness and meditation to people. He brings awareness from these disciplines in to his work as a counsellor. Mark has also trained in Focusing, an approach which helps us to contact our own truer self by listening to direct our own internal voice and our direct bodily experience.
Mark can be contacted by email or by phone on 07934 487175.
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Jess is a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), she supports adults, face-to-face as well as online. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy from the University of South Wales.
Jess will provide a compassionate space where you can feel heard, understood, and accepted without judgment. Also, a supportive place for you to explore any thoughts, feelings, or experiences you'd like to share.
Her approach to therapy is integrative, drawing from a variety of techniques to best suit each client’s individual needs. She can offer solution focused short-term therapy or longer-term therapy. Her focus is on empowering clients to grow and create meaningful change and therefore, create choice in their everyday lives. She has varied client experience including working for Mind, the Mental health charity and Cyfannol Womens’s aid.
Jess will offer potential clients a 20-minute introductory phone call to discuss their needs and to answer any initial questions about starting therapy.
Jess can be contacted by email or by phone on 07503 156282.
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Lucy draws together Western and Buddhist Psychology and somatic approaches to working with trauma. She offers Core Process Psychotherapy and NeuroAffective Touch®.
She specialises in working with early developmental trauma; disconnection from the body; and expanded states of consciousness.
By engaging creatively with body-heart-mind-spirit, Lucy supports you to make your own discoveries and connect with your own wisdom. This can support you to re-discover your connection to safety and to what makes you feel alive.
Lucy also works as a legal psychedelic retreat facilitator and movement facilitator, and is a student of Tibetan Buddhism. This equips her to support you to connect with your body, to make sense of experiences that have made you question what it means to be alive, and to welcome all of you.
Lucy is a Trainee UCKP Psychotherapist. Her professional qualifications include an MA and PhD in Social Work from Cardiff University, and a PgDip in Mindfulness-Based Core Process Psychotherapy (in progress) from the Karuna Institute.
You can book a free initial call to explore working with Lucy by contacting her by email.