Counselling |
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Counselling is an opportunity to explore one's experience in a confidential and non-judgemental setting. Often, when life gets us down, it can be helpful to share and explore our experience with an experienced listener..
Working together it becomes possible to understand more deeply the challenges you are facing and find strategies and meanings that can support new perspectives. Both the past and the present may be explored as well as hopes for the future. To this end I encourage the qualities of kindness and curiosity. These can allow us to remain open to our experience more fully, even in the face of the self-criticism that can accompany pain, stress, depression and anxiety. ContactMatthew Ward
Registered Member BACP Tel: 01568 708836 07982 466224 Contact form above email: [email protected] Mindfulness info: marchesmindfulness.co.uk Fees£35 per session (one hour)
Concessions available I offer a reduced rate for the first meeting, please ask for details. |
I have worked as a counsellor for a number of years and am a registered member of the British Association of counsellors and psychotherapists (BACP). Alongside private work I work at the Bracken Trust, a charity supporting people with cancer and their families. I also work at the CLD Trust in Hereford with children and young adults.
I am a qualified mindfulness trainer and run regular courses as well as teaching mindfulness to individuals and small groups. I am often asked to combine therapeutic counselling with mindfulness as mindfulness practice can support working with difficult thoughts, emotions and sensations in new and more empowered ways. A positive side effect of mindfulness practice is that it can be deeply soothing encouraging relaxation. |
"You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves......" The opening lines of 'Wild Geese' by Mary Oliver.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves......" The opening lines of 'Wild Geese' by Mary Oliver.