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Proactive support and counselling for young people and families
Counselling, Anxiety & Stress Management, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Counselling and stress management are for people who want to take more control over their lives and need support in order to do so. I can help you identify and clarify problems. We will work together to discover strategies that when implemented will provide the motivation to enable you to move forward with confidence. I can assist with a variety of issues which will achieve long term positive changes by addressing matters such as:- Relationship problems
- Anxiety and Stress
- Anger management
- Depression
- Lack of motivation
- Wellbeing/wellness
- Addictions & phobias
- Abuse
- Work/life balance
Many individuals and couples have overcome depression, improved relationships, raised their self-esteem and addressed issues that cause them anxiety and frustration Counselling and life coaching help you to look at things from a different perspective, focus on possibilities for change and then provide the support needed to put these changes into practice.
I aim to provide support proactively wherever possible and will respond quickly when difficult issues confront an individual or couple.
At the beginning of the first session, I will explain in some detail the way I work and will give ample opportunity for you to ask questions and verify my qualifications and experience. If at this stage, you decide not to proceed or you would like to have time to consider whether you wish to commence counselling, no charge will be made. If you are happy to continue with a full counselling session, the normal charges (see Counselling Fees) will apply.
There is no charge for brief email or telephone communication between appointments. Sometimes clients find this helpful and it is part of the service provided.
Meet the Counsellor - Steve Thomerson
I completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling in 1985 and have been actively involved in counselling couples & individuals, pupils & students and parents & families ever since. I now run a full time counselling & life coaching practice and prior to this was a Head of Year in secondary schools in Hampshire and North London. I have a Bachelor of Education degree that involved research into the causes and effects of stress and a Masters degree that focused on aspects of cognitive development, affects on behaviour and research into the affects of personal recording on self-esteem and personal development. During this time, I also provided counselling training to teachers and health professionals.
Attending numerous workshops and seminars including courses in couple counselling and depression has ensured my knowledge and practice remains up to date and relevant.
I have an eclectic approach including counselling, life coaching and cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and have been influenced by Curly Martin's Lifeskills Handbook andthe Human Givens approach as developed by Jo Griffen from the Mindfields College. Recent developments in brain science have informed these therapeutic techniques which help manage and alleviate depression, phobias, obsessive behaviours and post traumatic stress syndrome.
Further recent training in telephone and online counselling provided by Kate Anthony President of the International Society for Mental Health Online (ISMHO) enables me to offer an email and telephone service to clients as an alternative or addition to face to face counselling.
I am an Associate Member of the BACP(British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists), www.bacp.co.uk and am bound by its ethical guidelines for good practice in counselling and psychotherapy. I also hold membership of the BABCP (British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies) www.babcp.com, and am a registered counsellor with www.counselling-directory.org.uk.
I am committed to equal opportunity and provide a high quality professional counselling service for all regardless of colour, race, age, gender, disability or sexual preference. I hold an enhanced CRB certificate.
TESTIMONIALS
I am grateful to the following clients for allowing me to use their testimonials as the counselling experience is a very private one. Of course their anonimity has been respected and I hope you find them useful.
Steve is a kind and empathic counsellor, as a couple we had struggled with our partnership and there was no longer any fun in our lives. Things were looking extremely bleak for us. Our sessions with Steve helped us both get our lives back on track and perhaps more importantly rediscovered our love for each other.
Thank you Steve for helping us find our way again, our meetings helped us identify where we were going wrong. The ‘homework’ that was set rekindled the romance in our lives that had gradually disappeared over a number of years. - Trevor G
Steve has a very open and honest approach to counselling, which I found very refreshing. He has put a tailor-made course of CBT together for me, which is helping me greatly. I would recommend Steve to anyone who is looking for some counselling. He is an extremely approachable, relaxed and honest person. - Ben G
I would recommend Steve to anybody who is looking for support to overcome a personal challenge. When I contacted Steve I was feeling extremely low, a feeling which had developed over a long period of time. I felt that I couldn't cope with my work anymore and that I generally wasn't good enough at work or at home. I felt like a had a huge weight on my shoulders and yet guilty that I should feel that way given all the people in the world worse off than I was. I was wary of approaching a counsellor as I had had negative experiences previously, however from the first email contact Steve was friendly and professional and seemed to genuinely want to help. This impression continued when I visited Steve and I found his office to be a very welcoming and homely place, nothing like the imagined white bare walled room! My second fear, that there would be long periods of silence, also turned out to be unfounded and the counselling often took a form more like a discussion. Steve taught me relaxation techniques, helped me to recognise the cycle of negative thinking that I had been in for very many years and helped me to work out ways to break the cycle. We examined aspects of the past that may have fed into my negative feelings but the focus was always on how I could improve things for the future. It particularly helped me that Steve was a teacher and had a better than usual understanding of the pressures I was under on a day to day basis. Like everyone I still have good and bad days but I feel much better able to cope and feel more positive about my work and home life. I am not seeing Steve at the moment but know that I could go back to see him at any time and still get the support I need. - AC July 2007
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Children’s Health, Counselling, Mens Health, Womens Health
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