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Specialises in

• Counselling

Offers

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

About me

Hi, I'm Natalie and I started to think about becoming a counsellor after losing my baby son back in 2002.

I wanted to help people that had gone through similar to me. Back then, that was my way of saying that my emotions were to painful to deal with, so I would rather help other people deal with theirs!

It wasn't until I finally had counselling, a couple of years after my son died, that I realised what the grieving journey was all about. I suppose I tried to hide from my grief by pouring myself into my work, which was primary school teaching at the time.

But counselling changed me. It made me understand that I needed to front my feelings in order to move forward. I had to change what was on the inside of me in order to change the outside (I'd been trying to do it round the other way for a few years before having counselling and that obviously didn't work).

Once I'd done the work myself, I was ready to train as a counsellor and I could help other people.

I understand how scary it is picking up the phone, or emailing and asking for help from a stranger. But a stranger can be easier to talk to than a friend or relation. People say they can't say everything to a relation, they feel they have to edit what they say, or a friend will want to fix them and not hear them out.

As your counsellor, of course I want to help you, but I encourage you to come up with your own answers. You find the tools to help yourself. That's what I did.

Areas of interest

I work with clients from age 10 upwards.

I have an interest in baby loss, due to my own experience.

Areas of interest:

Bereavement; anxiety; depression; weight management; fears; phobias; PTSD; relationship breakdown; childhood trauma.

Alongside counselling I am also a hypnotherapist and use this as a tool particularly when working with childhood trauma. Hypno helps to uncover lost memories and heal the inner child.

Specialist interests and expertise in the following physical conditions

• Pain management

• Psychophysiological disorders

Medical secretaries

• Natalie Kelly
• 53 New Park Road Benfleet SS7 5UR
• 07837 452791
• 07837 452791
• n.k.therapies17@gmail.com