About me and my therapy practice

I have returned to face-to-face working; but also do work online sessions when that is more feasible.

I offer humanistic, psychodynamic based integrative therapy; informed by Gestalt practice and the relational approach, and embracing aspects of cognitive therapy working both in the short term, identifying specific problems or the longer term, which offers the chance, with support to make real changes.

What does this mean practically? Principally, it means creating a safe setting where someone can begin to explore their own experiences and begin to work out what they feel and what they trust. Daily life is often a compromise that doesn’t give the space to explore our deepest feelings and therefore change for the better is more often than not, painfully, on hold.

Areas include depression, anxiety, illness, illness recovery, low self-esteem, relationship patterns, parental issues, addictions, bereavement and questions of meaning & purpose.

Practice description

Therapeutic Counselling

Sometimes we need help in our journeys to find out who we really are; we need a different perspective from friends and family, someone who is impartial, someone who can let us breath, who won’t react to what we say, won’t talk over us, and offer what ‘they think’ responses. Someone who can offer us a ‘confidential space’ that we can use with confidence; in busy daily lives this often feels lacking.

Counselling and therapy can offer this space to re-evaluate what is happening, what one wants, who one is and is a chance to talk about things that perhaps no else has properly listened to. Talking to someone in this way can make a real difference when we may have become stuck, directionless, depressed or caught in negative relationships or situations that seem beyond our control. It can help us understand where we are and what we really feel, but more importantly can help us work out where we need to go. Someone impartial can offer this exploration, change and permission.

I completed training at the Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling, a course accredited by both BACP & UKCP qualifying in humanistic and integrative counselling (DipHIC, distinction, BCPC). This follows a life-long interest in people, their motivations and their relationships. I have a first class degree in psychology (Bath 2001), an MLiTT in creative writing (Glasgow, 2011) and two decades of experience in mental health, both the charity sector e.g. Mind, & Changes, Bristol but also in the NHS, working on acute mental health wards, and for the last four years counselling in addictions in Bristol. On top of counselling I facilitate groups, and also run creative writing workshops.

My first session

The First Step

The first session would be introductory (either online, face to face, or by phone); of 50 mins where you will be able to share what has been going on for you and maybe offer some goals you wish to achieve from the therapy. I will happily discuss the therapeutic process and try to answer any questions. This is a stand-alone meeting, where you can pause, reflect, and make the decision if you wish to start in therapy. If you decide you would wish to proceed then we would set up an on-going weekly appointment.

What I can help with

Abuse, Addictions, Anger management, Anxiety, Bereavement, Cancer, Child related issues, Cultural issues, Depression, Eating disorders, Health related issues, Identity issues, Infertility, Loss, Men’s issues, Obsessions, OCD, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Redundancy, Relationships, Self-esteem, Self-harm, Sex-related issues, Sexual identity, Sexuality, Spirituality, Stress, Trauma, Work related issues

Types of therapy

Existential, Gestalt, Humanistic, Integrative, Jungian, Person-centred, Phenomenological, Psychoanalytic, Psychodynamic, Relational, Transpersonal

Clients I work with

Adults, Older adults, Organisations

How I deliver therapy

Long-term face-to-face work, Online counselling, Short-term face-to-face work, Telephone counselling, Time-limited

Fees: £50

Contact:

Psychology BSc (Hons); MSc Health Psychology; Post Graduate Diploma Psychological Therapies (CBT); EMDR (parts I, II & III).

Background

Katie has worked in the NHS for over 15 years in adult mental health, including in secondary care and for an IAPT (improving access to psychological therapies) service.  She currently provides psychotherapy and other psychological services e.g. consultancy & training, in a specialist mesh complications service and an acute hospital staff psychology service.

As an EMDR Consultant and accredited BABCP therapist, Katie supervises other psychologists/psychotherapists.  Katie has experience in mental health research and has been involved in trials as a researcher, a co-applicant or as a principal investigator. She has also co-ordinated the  ‘Improvement & Innovation in Psychological Therapies in Primary Care’ Health Integration Team, funded by Bristol Health Partners.

Katie is accredited with the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) and is an EMDR Europe Accredited Clinical Supervisor/Consultant.

Therapeutic Approach

Katie draws on a range of evidence-based approaches tailored to meet the needs of the individuals she works with. She offers Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) ,  Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Mindfulness, and Compassion Focussed Therapy. Katie values a collaborative approach, facilitating increased self-awareness, as well as enabling clients to build on their own resources to enhance a positive sense of self.

Areas of Specialist Experience

Katie offers assessment and interventions for a wide range of difficulties including depression and anxiety disorders. She has significant experience and expertise working with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  As well as trauma, Katie also has a particular interest and experience in the area of clinical health psychology, including self-management and adjustment of surgery complications, long-term health conditions, especially chronic pain, fatigue and medically unexplained symptoms.

Katie offers private supervision including for therapists wanting to become EMDR / CBT accredited.

Contact

katie3gan@gmail.com

Katieegan.uk

At some point in life we all need some extra support. A non-judgemental space to feel seen and heard in our experience. Someone to walk alongside us on our journey who is separate from our everyday lives, offering professional guidance & reflection.

As a therapist, I aim to offer this in a way that feels congruent and helpful for you. I offer a space for you to process and understand your experience safely. When the world around us can often feel confusing and turbulent, the combination of psychotherapy and creativity can offer containment, insight and the potential for positive change.

Sometimes words are not enough. Drama Psychotherapy offers a chance to explore and express what words cannot, using all modes of creativity, and psychodynamic processes.

Internal Family Systems explores our inner world, and compassionately welcomes all parts of our experience.

It is a form of psychotherapy that supports exploration of our internal worlds, and focuses on a client’s internal “parts” and “Self.” The IFS model considers that we are all naturally made up of many ‘parts’ or sub-personalities, which have developed for us over time to serve us in different ways. These sub-personalities take on different roles, such as an inner critic or inner child, and consist of wounded parts and painful feelings. It is a deeply compassionate model of therapy, with the philosophy that there are no bad parts: All parts are welcome. In IFS my aim is to help clients access and strengthen their sense of Self, so that they can heal wounded parts and bring their emotional systems into balance and harmony.

I am also trained in MANTRA, a NICE guideline treatment for Anorexia Nervosa in adults.

I have extensive experience working with eating disorders, trauma, mental illness & life challenges.

It can feel daunting making initial contact with a potential therapist. But it is a vital first step to receiving help. I am warm & empathic, so please do not hesitate to get in touch when you feel ready. I also offer a free consultation session, for us to meet and for you to consider if I am the right therapist for you.

Contact:

Email: sadowskirose@hotmail.com

Mobile: 07968958928

 

About Me

I’m a Relate-trained adult relationship counsellor with many years experience of working therapeutically with both individuals and couples.

Throughout my career I have been passionate about working to improve outcomes for individuals, families and children. I have held a variety of roles across the NHS, the voluntary sector, local authorities and schools focussing particularly on relationships, mental health and wellbeing.

My interest in counselling began when studying psychology as an undergraduate and led me to train with the Bristol-based charity Womankind, working on their helpline, and then later, from 2008, with Relate as a specialist adult relationship counsellor.

I have lived in Bristol for over 30 years and now work solely in private practice here, offering appointments during daytime office hours from Monday to Thursday each week. I am an accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and adhere to their code of ethics.

About Relationship Counselling

There are many and varied reasons which lead people to seek relationship counselling and I have worked with individuals and couples on a broad range of issues including; communication, bereavement, fertility, trust, intimacy, family issues – including parenting, step-families and extended families – infidelity, work and financial worries along with separation and divorce.

Are you struggling to discuss important issues with your partner without arguing, or do you disagree on how to parent your children? Are you finding it difficult to be intimate together or is work stress impacting upon your family life? Have you recently separated from your partner and would like to explore what went wrong or do you have difficulty in developing and sustaining intimate relationships?

I aim to provide a safe, supportive, non-judgemental and confidential environment in which we can work collaboratively on the issues that are important to you, focussing on meeting your unique, individual needs. I work face to face and online and I welcome clients from a broad and diverse range of backgrounds, including from the LGBTQ+ community. 

Next Steps, Booking and Fees

Taking the first step in seeking support can feel daunting and I will do everything I can to help you to feel at ease.

I can offer a brief, free telephone conversation to help answer any questions you may have before deciding whether to book in for an initial consultation. Alternatively, you would be welcome to get in touch to arrange your initial consultation.

Ongoing counselling appointments are usually scheduled weekly. The duration of counselling varies, however six to eight sessions can be a helpful minimum. In shorter term counselling we may focus on the more immediate issues you are experiencing in your day-to-day life, whereas longer term work may allow for a deeper perspective on how your past experiences may be affecting your current difficulties.

All appointments are 50 minutes in length and charged at £65 for individual counselling and £85 for couple counselling.

Website and Contact Details

 

 

Life rarely follows the straightforward path we had hoped it would, and we can find ourselves in places we don’t recognise or discover that the path ahead delivers unexpected changes or challenges. These changes can often result in mixed feelings, some welcome and some hard to accept. Counselling can offer a space to come to terms with these changes and cope with the transitional stage we find ourselves in.

I am able to work through your existential or spiritual concerns, help you to understand previous events and difficulties from your life, or work towards a future goal. In order to do this, I draw from a variety of approaches and creative techniques to work as an integrative counsellor and this helps me to best meet the specific needs of the person I am working with. However, I believe that the therapeutic journey is a collaborative one. Therefore, in order to honour the uniqueness and autonomy of the client, I would aim to approach any difficulties and obstacles in a mutual, collaborative and interpersonal way. Using this approach allows me to respond to the person I am sitting with rather than applying a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to suit everyone. Nonetheless, although I believe that creating a relationship this way between counsellor and client is central to creating a safe, trusting and supportive space for personal exploration, please rest assured that you will always be placed at the centre of the work.

The therapeutic work can be open-ended or run through a fixed number of sessions, depending on your preference. Initially, the first session will be about exploring what has brought you to counselling and your current situation. Following this, sessions act as a way for me to get to know you and your story more deeply, creating the base from which the therapeutic journey progresses. Should this strike a chord with you, I would be happy to meet with you to review your individual needs about what you would like to gain from coming to therapy.

Fees

Sessions last for 50 minutes and cost £60.

Contact:

markchildscounselling@gmail.com

07927276315

I can also be found on Instagram under: markchildscounselling

Common Sense and Compassion

I’m Hannah, a psychotherapist passionate about supporting people through life’s challenges. Based in Bristol, I specialise in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), trauma therapy, and perinatal mental health, helping clients navigate anxiety, depression, and major life transitions.

I approach therapy with a “let’s figure this out together” mindset, treating clients with respect, openness, and understanding. My goal is to create a safe, non-judgmental space where you can explore your thoughts, feelings, and experiences with confidence.

From my earliest training in CBT, I felt drawn to helping people manage complex emotions. This led me to specialise in trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), supporting individuals through experiences such as sexual assault, accidents, migration, and significant life changes.

After moving to Bristol, I expanded my expertise to include perinatal mental health, working with mothers and parents through the profound changes that come with pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood. I provide support for issues such as birth trauma, baby loss, and the emotional shifts that can arise during this transformative time.

My approach integrates trauma-informed care with practical strategies to build resilience, emotional wellbeing, and self-compassion. I am fully accredited with both the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) and Interpersonal Psychotherapy UK (IPTUK), and I also offer Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR) and Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy (PGDT).

 

Problems I Work With

I have experience helping clients with a wide range of difficulties, including:

• Anxiety (generalised anxiety, panic attacks, health anxiety, social anxiety)
• Depression (low mood, lack of motivation, feelings of hopelessness)
• Trauma and PTSD (including birth trauma, accidents, assault, and migration-related trauma)
• Perinatal Mental Health (pregnancy-related anxiety, postnatal depression, birth trauma, baby loss)
• Grief and Loss (bereavement, miscarriage, stillbirth, or other significant losses)
• Life Transitions (adjusting to parenthood, career changes, retirement, or other major shifts)
• Low Self-Esteem and Confidence
• Stress and Worry (work-related stress, overwhelm, or chronic worry)
• Sleep Difficulties (insomnia, disrupted sleep patterns)
• Relationship Challenges (conflicts, communication issues, or adjusting to new dynamics)

My Approach
I believe in tailoring therapy to your unique needs, using evidence-based techniques to help you build resilience, develop coping strategies, and move toward a more fulfilling life. Whether you’re navigating a specific challenge or seeking support for ongoing difficulties, I’m here to help you find clarity, strength, and hope.

Contact:
info@hlpsychotherapy.co.uk

www.hlpsychotherapy.co.uk