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.
Counselling provides a space for you to explore your experiences and feelings in a respectful and confidential space. The focus of the conversation is to understand your experience and provide support to explore the ways in which you can introduce change into your life.
I support clients on leaving rehab to continue therapeutic care once detoxed. Drugs and alcohol are not the root cause issue, managing life is the real challenge.
My approach to working with addiction and substance abuse is to support clients in exploring and understanding the root causes of their addiction. Developing this compassionate understanding enables clients, in the supportive therapeutic relationship we create, to start to process and heal the underlying trauma that is driving the addiction and substance abuse.
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.
Psychologist, Consultant Clinical Psychologist (HCPC registered), PhD, MSc, MSc, MSc, MA (Econ), BA (Econ) Hons
I have been working in the field of alcohol and other drug abuse for 35 years. I deliver a custom-designed program to meet the individual's needs and means.
Addictions are an interest of mine.
I hold two professional development course certificates in addiction.
One on a brief therapy in stopping addictions and the other is addiction and psyschoanalysis.