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I currently have availability

Flexible hours are available and can be discussed when counselling is required.

 Are you facing challenges that are causing you anxiety, leaving you feeling overwhelmed and depressed? Are you misunderstood in your relationships and left feeling wounded? Such challenging issues can leave you with feelings of loss, hopelessness and despair. As many of our present and past challenges are rooted in the past, it is important for it to be explored and understood; this will help you better understand yourself and help you support a healthy mind.

Finding the right therapist to trust and talk about these issues in a safe space can be unnerving and requires bravery, so I offer a free 15-minute telephone consultation to help us decide whether working together is right for you. I offer you that warm confidential space to build a relationship and explore your issues. I offer a supportive and genuine relationship. Such a relationship is key to your therapy, as it makes you feel safe, makes you feel heard and allows us to explore what is going on for you.

As I work alongside you I will be curious but respectful, challenging but supportive. As you understand yourself better, becoming self-aware, you will embrace self-acceptance, build your self-esteem and form healthier relationships. 

I work with you to repair, restore your autonomy and strengthen your agency in relationships. You set your own goals so your therapy is tailored to your unique relational needs; I will trust you, the expert, to decide how you would like your therapy to be.

As you make new choices and develop new ways of coping and being in the world, you will discover what you need to start feeling better about yourself. I invite you to journey with me in a nourishing relationship where, in exploring and repairing, you may begin experiencing healing in the moment and healing in the future

I currently offer face-to-face, online and telephone counselling.

For a first session, you can contact me at: 

joan@itsyourtherapy.uk

07880 532517

Our first session determines how we relate and sets the boundaries for our relationship. We will discuss your understanding of therapy and how I will work ethically with you. We will explore what brings you to therapy and any goals you want to achieve.

As we work together my role is to guide and support you in your journey of discovery - where we aim to repair and restore your autonomy and strengthen your agency in relationships. 

As a qualified secondary school science teacher with over thirty years of experience, I also understand and can help with the unique anxieties and pressures that school-children face.