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• Face-to-face consultations
• Video and telephone consultations

About me

About me
My name is Denise and I am a registered BACP accredited counsellor with a background in ITU nursing, hypnotherapy and Emotional Freedom Technique.

I am an integrative counsellor - which means I use various counselling styles to suit clients' needs. These include: Person-Centred Counselling (PCA), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Transaction Analysis (TA).

Thus during counselling sessions I will adopt a holistic approach to your therapy and work with you to find a positive way forward. So whether you are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, confidence issues, childhood issues, trauma, loss, or life in general, I will listen to you, I will be open and honest with you and I will not judge you.

Our sessions will take place remotely via Teams or Face-2-Face in a warm and safe environment in a discrete location within a village in the heart of Shropshire (10 minutes from Newport, 25 minutes from Wolverhampton, 20 minutes from Telford, 30 minutes from Shrewsbury, and 15 minutes from Staffordshire). Parking facilities are available.

Experience

I have worked in private practice for many years as a counsellor, hypnotherapist and Emotional Freedom Technique practitioner. I have also spent three years at a GP practice working with clients with mild to moderate mental health issues.

Prior to being a therapist I worked as a general and ITU nurse for around 10 years at several NHS hospitals, and during that time gained invaluable experience in a forensic unit at a psychiatric hospital.

In addition, as a former journalist, I wrote a regular health column on a variety of topics for a daily newspaper.

I am also a qualified yoga and Pilates teacher, and believe in the importance of exercise in helping to create and maintain a healthy mind.

My experience to date allows me to work with people from all walks of life, with wide ranging issues.

Training and Qualifications

BA (Hons) International and Political Studies: at Coventry University
Edexcel Level 5 diploma in therapeutic counselling
Practitioner diploma in clinical hypnosis with London College of Clinical Hypnosis
Diploma in clinical hypnosis - with London College of Clinical Hypnosis (validated by the University of Greenwich)
ENB in intensive care nursing
ENB in general nursing
Diploma in yoga
Diploma inn Pilates
NVQ level 4 in newspaper journalism
NCTJ newspaper journalism – two distinctions, one credit
Emotional Freedom Technique practitioner – levels 1, 2 and 3
NCFE level 3 in counselling skills and theory
Cruse Bereavement Care foundation course.

Areas of interest

Abortion;
Abuse;
Affairs and betrayals;
Anxiety;
Attachment disorder;
Bereavement;
Body dysmorphic disorder;
Bullying;
Cancer;
Career counselling;
Child related issues;
Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME;
Depression;
Disabilities;
Domestic violence;
Emotional abuse;
Family issues;
Feeling sad;
Generalised anxiety disorder;
Hoarding;
Infertility;
Loneliness;
Low self-confidence;
Low self-esteem;
Miscarriage;
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD);
Panic attacks;
Phobias;
Physical abuse;
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD);
Pregnancy and birth;
Redundancy;
Relationship problems;
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD);
Separation and divorce;
Sexual abuse;
Stress;
Trauma;
Work-related stress;