Psychologist, UK Chartered Counseling Psychologist
Recovery is as individual as you are and no two people experience it the same. We will take an honest look at the challenges you are facing and work together to help you begin to understand yourself and your relationship to addictive substances. Are you reaching for external substances to numb your pain? Let's talk and figure out what you emotional support you need.
Finding out about your addiction or substance use and helping you to see how your thoughts and feelings affect your behaviour and working on strengthening your coping mechanisms.
We work with people to overcome their addictions, whether chemical addictions such as smoking or drugs, or behavioural addictions such as shopping, gambling, or sex. Using a combination of Cognitive-based Behavioural Therapies and Hypnotherapy we are able to help resolve the issue, sometimes in a single session.
Counsellor/Therapist, BA MA Relational Psychotherapist/ Birkbeck College - Psychodynamic Counsellor
Since I started my career in psychotherapy, I have successfully dedicated considerable productive efforts to client issues. In my private practice, I create a safe and supportive therapy environment in which clients interact with me in terms of the point to where they wish to advance. To these circumstances, I bring my experience with the nature of illness, drug therapies, professional ethics and more.
Counsellor/Therapist, BSc and FdSc Person Centred Counselling. MBACP
Addictive substances or behaviours change the way we feel.
People can experience addiction in different ways whether it is a physical or psychological dependence, a compulsive disorder, a physiological, cultural or social issue.
I take a broad view of all these and invite you to bring yourself where we can look at the addictive behaviour and its possible sources. Addiction can be when something becomes compulsive and you feel like you have no choice, that even with serious negative consequences you may continue with the behaviour and it begins to dominate your world.
Counselling can help you explore and identify behaviours, patterns and feelings; working to understand, acknowledge and to accept the way you live life in a healthier way.
I work to help you to understand triggers for your addictions and the events underneath them. I support you to learn to develop compassion for yourself, as well as empower you in taking responsibility as appropriate, and working through shame guilt and any other challenging emotions that may arise.
Registered Psychotherapist, BA, MA, Post MA Dip, BPS Accred
Do you have addictive tendencies? Is your behaviour around certain substances - or habits - exaggerated and unhelpful? Are you worried or scared that you are harming yourself and/or others? Is there addiction in your family or your ancestry? What has brought you to read this page on addiction right now? Let´s explore these questions, and more, together.