About Counselling

If you choose to come and see me for counselling, we will develop a supportive relationship that will enable you to explore your problems, come to understand your problems, and then to resolve, or come to terms with them...
 

Fees & Contact Details

Each counselling session lasts for 50 mins. In the first session we talk about what it was that prompted you to come to see a counsellor. We will then discuss your possible options.
 

Thought for The Week

Wednesday 16th May

                                       "I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back."

                                        Abraham Lincoln

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 9th May

                                     "Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold,

                                     well."

                                     Josh Billings

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 30th April

                             "A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner."

                             English proverb

                            

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 27th April

                              "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences

                               of avoiding reality."

                                Ayn Rand

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 26th April

                                   "The mind is a parachute, it doesn't work unless it's open."

                                    anon

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 25th April

                                        "It always seems impossible until it's done."

                                         Nelson Mandela

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 17th April

                                  "Each passing minute is one less chance to change."

                                  Greg Platz

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 9th April

                           "Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but

                            gets you nowhere."

                            Glenn Turner

                           

                          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 27th March

                                     "All the animals except for man know, that the principle of life

                                     is to enjoy it."

                                     Samuel Butler

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 13th March

                                     "The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend."

                                      Abraham Lincoln

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 28th Feb

                                "A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new."

                                Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday Feb 10th

                            "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want

                            to be happy, practice compassion."

                            Dalai Lama

                           

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 24th Jan

                                "My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."

                                Henry Ford

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 12th Jan

                                   "If you're going through hell, keep going!"

                                    Winston Churchill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 31st Dec

                                 "The truth is,everyone is going to hurt you. You just go to find the

                                 ones worth suffering for."

                                 Bob Marley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 8th Dec

                               "Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."

                                William Wordsworth

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 29th Nov

                                "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."

                                 Michelangelo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 17th Nov

                              "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

                               E.E. Cummings

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 10th Nov

                                  "A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one."

                                   Rita Mae Brown

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 1st Nov

                              "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be

                               changed until it is faced."

                               James Baldwin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday October 15th

                                       "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction."

                                         General Douglas MacArthur

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday October 5th

                                           "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your

                                            understanding...And could you keep your heart in wonder at the

                                            daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondorus

                                            than your joy."

                                            Khalil Gibran

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday September 23rd

                                          "You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse."

                                          Napoleon Bonaparte

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday 11th September

                                           "One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle

                                            of winter."

                                            Henry David Thoreau

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 27th August

                                       "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then

                                        I can achieve it."

                                       Muhammad Ali

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 5th August

                                "Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds

                                called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.'"

                                Marianne Williamson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 23rd July

                                 "Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are

                                 crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that

                                 men are stupid."

                                 George Carlin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 30th June

                                    "One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery

                                     of oneself."

                                     Leonardo da Vinci

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 17th June

                              "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two

                              characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity."

                              John F. Kennedy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 8th June

                                      "Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."

                                      Henry David Thoreau

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 24th May

                                "Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety

                                which we endure, and generally create ourselves."

                                Benjamin Disraeli

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday May 17th

                                "Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason

                                for the journey is a fate more cruel."

                                H. G. Wells

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday May 5th

                                "What does not destroy me, makes me strong"

                                Friedrich Nietzsche

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 26th April

                                  "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear

                                   never beginning to live."

                                   Marcus Aurelius

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 5th April

                               "Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

                               Albert Camus

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 23rd March

                                           "It always seems impossible until it's done."

                                            Nelson Mandela

                                           

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 17th March

                                      "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do

                                      are in harmony."

                                       Mohandas Gandhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 4th March

                              "What do we need a psychiatrist for? We know our kid is nuts!"

                               Homer Simpson

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 8th Feb

                         "You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life is about

                           change."

                           John Cleese

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 4th Feb

                         "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."

                         Anon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 18th Jan

                               "At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a

                               kaleidoscope of new possibilities."

                               Jean Houston

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 5th Jan

                                    The mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work unless it's open.

                                    Anon

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 14th December

                                            A reporter interviewing A.J.Muste, who during the Vietnam War

                                            stood in front of the White House night after night with a

                                            candle, one rainy night asked, "Mr Muste, do you really think

                                            you are going to change the policies of this country by standing

                                            out here with a candle?" Muste replied, "Oh, I don't  do it to change

                                            the country, I do it so the country won't change me."

                                            Andrea Ayvazian

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 7th December

                                          "Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person

                                          is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a

                                          vegetarian."

                                          Shari R. Barr

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 22nd Nov

                                "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,

                                 too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,

                                 but for those who love time is eternity."

                                 Henry Van Dyke

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 12th Nov

                           "By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and

                             if you get a bad one you will become a philospher."

                             Socrates (470-399 BC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 8th Nov

                            "All the animals except for man know, that the principle of life

                             is to enjoy it."

                             Samuel Butler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday 31st Oct

                               "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared

                               to what lies within us."

                               Walt Emerson

                             

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 21st October

                                        "Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before,

                                        how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many

                                        things that one goes worrying about are of no importance

                                        whatsoever."

                                        Isak Dinosen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 14th October

                                         "Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those

                                          you hold, well."

                                          Josh Billings

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 2nd October

                                        "What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people,

                                         is they don't want to discourage it completely."

                                         Franklin P. Jones

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 25th September

                                               "If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot

                                                you hate."

                                                Mignon McLaughlin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 14th September

                                              "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a

                                               miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle."

                                               Albert Einstein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 8th September

                                                  'Some say the glass is half full, some say the glass is

                                                  half empty. I say, "Are you gonna drink that?"'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 1st September

                                             "If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up some place else."

                                             Yoggi Berra

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 24th August

                                  "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts,

                                  liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."

                                  Andrew Carnegie

                                 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 12th August

                                   "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."

                                   Erin Majors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 31st July

                             Always when judging

                             Who people are,

                             Remember to footnote

                             The words "So far."

                             Robert Brault

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 22nd July

                                  "Each passing minute is one less chance to change."

                                  Greg Platz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 12th July

                              "A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner."

                              English proverb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 24th June

                                   "I don't know what the key to success is, but the key to

                                   failure is trying to please everyone."

                                   Anon

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 17th June

                                   "Don't let your victories go to your head, or your

                                   failures go to your heart."

                                   Anon

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 10th June

                                   "In a world where you can be anything, be yourself."

                                   Anon

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 2nd June

                                    "There are defeats more triumphant than victories."

                                     Anon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 25th May

                              "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift.

                               That's why they call it the present."

                               Anon

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 21st May

                           "The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we

                            wait so long to begin it."

                            Anon

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 17th May

                              "The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of

                               everything; they just make the most of everything that comes their way."

                               Anon

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 13th May

                                 Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.

                                 "Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.

                                 "I don't know," Alice answered.

                                 "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."

                                  Lewis Carroll  Alice in Wonderland

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 11th May

                                "Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

                                 Anon

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday 9th May

                              "When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad,

                               and that is my religion."

                               Abraham Lincoln.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 4th May

                            "It is not enough for a man to know how to ride;

                             he must know how to fall."

                             (Mexican Proverb)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 26th April

                                "Think of all the beauty that's still left, in and around you,

                                and be happy"

                                (Anne Frank)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 22nd April

                                      "When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we

                                       look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has

                                       been opened for us."

                                       (Helen Keller)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 17th April

                                  "I've developed a new philosophy...I only dread one day at a time!"

                                   Charlie Brown. (Charles Schulz)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 12th April

                                 "Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining

                                  self pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain,

                                  cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly

                                  terrible defeat.......Never take yourself seriously."

                                  Og Mandino.  Kenya

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 30th March

                                         "We don't see thing as they are, we see them as we are."

                                            Anais Nin

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 26th March

                                      "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom

                                       consists in not exceeding the limit."

                                       Elbert Hubbard

 

 

 

 

 

Monday 22nd March

                                      "I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

                                        Henry Moore

 

 

 

 

Monday 15th March

                                    "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of

                                      avoiding reality."

                                       Ayn Rand

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 6th March

 

                                     "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do."   Mark Twain

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 2nd March

 

 

                                   "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your

                                      years."

                                                          Abraham Lincoln

 

 

 

 

Wednesday 24th Feb

                                         "Plenty of people miss their share of happiness,

                                           Not because they never found it,

                                            But because they didn't stop to enjoy it."

                                                             William Faulkner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday 18th Feb

                                  "The only limitations to your success will be those you accept and those you place upon yourself"

                                           Michael G. Collier

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 2nd Feb.

                                 "Our attitude towards life determines life's attitude towards us"

                                 John N. Mitchell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 22nd Jan.

                                "When there is Good, there is good.

                                 But when there is bad, there are good things to learn from."

                                 Manoj Verma - India

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 15th Jan.

                             "Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but gets you

                               nowhere"

                               Glenn Turner

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 8th Jan.

"Scars remind us of where we have been. They don't have to dictate where we are going."

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