We offer the opportunity for you to talk and discuss in a safe, relaxing environment in confidence without judgement. Counselling can offer a variety of positive benefits which can enhance your life.
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Experiences of abuse, whether in childhood, adulthood, or within relationships, can leave deep and lasting impacts. You might find yourself navigating feelings of confusion, shame, disconnection, or even wondering whether what you went through ‘counts’ as trauma. These are common and very human responses to complex experiences, especially when boundaries, safety, or trust have been harmed.
Therapy can offer a protected space where these experiences are acknowledged without judgement, and where healing happens through safety, empathy, and choice. There is no pressure to share more than you’re ready to. Whether you have clear memories or only a vague sense that something wasn’t right, your experience is valid.
My work is crucially supported by specialist training and detailed clinical experience in relational trauma, domestic abuse, and sexual abuse support, and grounded in trauma-informed, person-centred principles. This means I aim to meet you with care, clarity, and collaboration — not to analyse or interpret your experiences for you, but to support you in reconnecting with your own sense of voice, choice, and agency. Whether you’re just beginning to explore these experiences or already partway along, you’re absolutely welcome to make contact, and we can see if I feel like the right therapist for you at this time.
As I taylor the therapy around the individuals needs.
Therapist Kerry Day BA(Hons)Dip Counselling
This is using a blend of therapy to work with the body linking up the mind and the heart and body. To understand and tune into the bodies wisdom.
Therapist Kerry Day BA(Hons)Dip Counselling
The approach I use is biodynamic craniosacral therapy, which is a gentle, hands-on method non-invasive treatment, which evaluates and enhances the function of the whole body. This treatment is suitable for all from new born to the elderly.
Therapist : Helen Baker Gabrielle Gabriel
Clinical Neuropsychology offering assessment and treatment for the cognitive and emotional impact of neurological conditions. I have more than a decade’s experience of working with patients at every stage of care, from hospital admission to living in the community.
Neuropsychologists are experts on how neurological illness changes emotional well-being, behaviour and cognitive functions. Whether you have Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, Brain Injury, Stroke, Dementia or another neurological condition, a neuropsychologist can help you cope with:
· Cognitive problems, including difficulty with memory, language, thinking skills such as planning and organising, and concentration
· Feeling frustrated, low or anxious
· Loss of confidence and low self-esteem
· Physical symptoms including pain, weakness and fatigue
· Feelings of bereavement for lost abilities and activities
· Changes in behaviour including irritability and anger, apathy and an inability to start tasks, and lost social skills
Are you worried about memory and other mental skills? My services include comprehensive cognitive assessment and speedy reports to allow you get the advice that you need and move forwards. I use the latest cognitive tests to find which skills are affected. I can then advise you how to manage and overcome these problems using evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation techniques.
Is managing your symptoms emotionally overwhelming you? Neurological illness increases the risk of psychological distress, including depression, anxiety, and low self-confidence. Therapy can help you understand why neurological illness causes emotional distress, cope with the emotional impact of neurological problems, adjust to your illness and develop strategies to manage your symptoms.
I am registered with the HCPC and the British Psychological Society (BPS). I hold the BPS’ “gold standard” Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology and I am listed on the BPS Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists. If you need someone with the highest level of expertise in clinical neuropsychology, I can help. Therapist: Vikki Hunkin
Clinical psychologists aim to reduce the distress and improve the psychological wellbeing of their clients. They use psychological methods and research to make positive changes to their clients’ lives and offer various forms of treatment.They work with clients of all ages who have a variety of different mental or physical health issues, such as depression and anxiety, mental illness, adjustment to physical illness, neurological disorders, addictive behaviours eating disorders, personal and family relationship problems and learning disabilities.
Clinical psychologists work in partnership with their clients over a series of sessions in order to build a shared understanding (‘formulation’) of their difficulties, explain why they may be happening and to make sense of them. This may include past difficulties and experiences if these are relevant to the present. This understanding informs the next steps which may include therapy.
Therapist:Tim Keen, Daniel Robins,Dr Paula Pearson
CAT is suitable for treating low mood (depression), anxiety, stress, low self-confidence and low self-esteem. CAT can work with difficulties born of childhood trauma. It focusses on the underlying relational patterns learnt early in life that can make it difficult to share vulnerability and ask for what we need in a healthy way.
CAT is a very active therapy, inviting you to be the observer of your own life and to take part in what needs change. The changes needed may be small, such as stopping being caught in a trap of avoiding things, or they may be larger, such as finding new ways of relating to other people. The first thing that happens with any human encounter is our reaction to the other person. If we feel warm and happy, we are likely to feel accepted. Conversely, if we feel got at, criticised or humiliated we tend to feel hurt and misunderstood, we might respond by being angry and defensive or give up trying and get depressed and isolated. Many of our automatic responses to other people stem from patterns of relating in early life.
For example, if you had learned in your childhood that you only received love and care by pleasing others you might have the belief: ‘Only if I always do what others want will I be liked’ which puts you in a trap of pleasing others, and can lead to you feeling used and abused. When you realise you have got used to being in this trap you can start to notice how often it catches you and can begin to change what you do and learn to find other more useful ways of standing up for yourself and relating to others. CAT shows you the way to change your learned attitudes and beliefs about yourself and others, and helps you focus on ways to make better choices.
The process of a CAT therapy is to help us look at patterns of relating, and the effect these patterns are having on our relationships, our work and the way we are with ourselves. Together, in the safety of the therapeutic relationship you will gradually develop an understanding of the ways in which you have learned to cope with what has happened in your life. Often people who have been through abuse, neglect or trauma feel bad about themselves and this can affect self-confidence. The active part of CAT helps you to take part in the process of change in your own way.
Therapist: Tim Keen
Are you struggling with your marriage or relationship? Do you want to put a stop to endless conflict and find new ways to connect and move forward? Or do you want to re-energise and revitalise your partnership?
I offer solution-focused therapy for couples wishing to move past events or issues that are causing pain and disconnection, towards a more positive and connected future together. Solution focused therapy differs from conventional therapy in that we do not dwell on the past but instead focus on the desired future of the couple. We will work collaboratively to set realistic goals and talk about how to achieve them. This approach looks at the couples’ strengths and will work to build upon those instead of shining the spotlight at perceived weaknesses. The future orientated nature of this therapy and the focus on strengths and not weaknesses are beneficial for achieving and sustaining desired behavioural change.
The length of treatment is usually between six and eight sessions but may extend beyond this depending on how couples progress. I will incorporate my knowledge and skills of person-centred therapy into the sessions alongside the solution-focused approach as I find this to be most effective. Please see my other profile (insert link here) to read about my work with individuals from a person-centred perspective.
I will be dedicated to your relationship and maintain an unbiased attitude towards you both. I will also help you both to express yourselves without feeling threatened or diminished in any way. My desire is to see you move towards each other with love, understanding and a renewed hope for the future.
Please get in touch for an initial 30-minute session to see if I might be the right therapist for you. This is completely free of charge and there is no obligation to continue. I look forward to meeting you.
hello@lovedaytherapy.co.uk
+07901 625287
Therapist: Leigh Loveday
I now place all my work, including psychotherapy, in the broader context of Deep Ecology and Ecopsychology. I have trained with Joanna Macy and am accredited by her as a facilitator of what is now called The Work that Reconnects. Ecopsychology considers human identity as inseparably and intimately part of the natural world.
Ecotherapy can involve benefitting from the support of the Natural Environment, which acts as a co-facilitator, and here at Blue Lotus we are lucky to have access to woodland adjacent to the Therapy Centre. However, even in talking therapy, sitting in a room one-to-one, we can be recovering our relationship as a member of the Earth community.
The corollary, of course, is that Eco-psychotherapy admits that we are all at some level distressed by, and anxious about, the environmental and climate crisis.
The Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was asked what we need to do to save our world. “What we most need to do,” he replied, “is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.”
Therapist : Martin Paine
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR therapy is a phased, focused approach to treating trauma and other symptoms by reconnecting the traumatised person in a safe and measured way to the images, self-thoughts, emotions, and body sensations associated with the trauma, and allowing the natural healing powers of the brain to move toward adaptive resolution.
It is based on the idea that symptoms occur when trauma and other negative or challenging experiences overwhelm the brain’s natural ability to heal, and that the healing process can be facilitated and completed through bilateral stimulation while the client is re-experiencing the trauma in the context of the safe environment of the therapist’s office (dual awareness).
According to the EMDR Research Foundation, over 30 studies have documented the effectiveness of EMDR therapy over the past 30 years for problems such as rape and sexual abuse, combat trauma, childhood trauma and neglect, life-threatening accidents, and symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and substance abuse.
By processing stuck trauma, you can move those experiences to regular autobiographical memory and, in doing so, you are far better placed to get past your past and move forward with your life.
Therapist Tim Keen, Dr Paula Pearson
The unconscious is the part of your mind that deals with habitual and automatic reactions, feelings, emotions, processes and functions that are outside of our conscious awareness – things that you literally don’t need to think about because you just do them.
Therapist: Jake Wellings
A powerful and effective therapeutic approach that helps people release unwanted emotional patterns, anxiety, trauma, and limiting beliefs. By using guided eye movements, IEMT works with the brain’s natural processes to bring about rapid change, often helping individuals feel lighter and more in control of their emotions. Unlike traditional talk therapy, IEMT focuses on shifting how problematic memories and feelings are stored, allowing you to break free from past emotional burdens without needing to relive them in detail. If you’re feeling stuck or overwhelmed, IEMT offers a gentle yet transformative way to regain emotional balance and move forward with confidence.
Therapist Melissa Howell
Life Coaching can help address a wide range of needs including anxiety , depression , stress, health , fitness, personal relationships, personal development and much more….
Therapist Jake Wellings Melissa Howell Brian Tregunna, Ruth Freeman
Supportive. Empathic. Confidential.
Therapist : Maya Field
Macrobiotics, the Greek term meaning “Big Life”, is a holistic life philosophy developed in the 20th century by Japanese pioneers, George Ohsawa and Michio Kushi. Macrobiotics mainly focuses on wholefood diet and nutrition, but also takes into account personal and spiritual development, based on traditional Oriental medicine and philosophy principles.
Macrobiotic Health Coaching takes a comprehensive consultation, looking at the client’s constitution and health condition, diet, exercise, emotional and life history. Using assessment process based on Oriental diagnosis, a Macrobiotic Health Coach provides a detailed health and lifestyle plan, which may include: dietary advice, meal planning and wholefood cooking tuition, exercise routines, massage and bodywork treatments, and emotional work.
Macrobiotic Health Coaching is not a substitute for medical care but is a form of guidance and education to help enable the client to fine tune and optimize their health and wellbeing.
Therapist: Dave Sowden
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is aimed at enhancing the healing process by changing the conscious and subconscious beliefs of patients about themselves, their illnesses, and the world. These limiting beliefs are “reprogrammed” using a variety of techniques drawn from other disciplines including hypnotherapy and psychotherapy.
Therapist:Melissa Howell Brian Tregunna
My name is Leigh Loveday (Dip.Couns, Reg MBACP) and I am a fully qualified person-centred counsellor and therapist and a registered member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy).
I am passionate about what it means to be a human, our connection to ourselves and how we show up in our relationships. I love working together with you at your pace and with whatever you are comfortable bringing to sessions.
I view every human experience as wonderfully unique, alongside the belief that our perception of the world around us is also unique to the individual. It is my aim as your therapist, to view your life through your eyes and to feel what you feel. I believe that when a client feels genuine, non-judgemental love and care from the counsellor, a natural healing begins to take place. In addition to providing these conditions, I will be present in each session as my authentic, genuine self. This will enable you to feel safe enough to do the same and will encourage you to be open about your issues, fears and concerns.
I do not take the role of the expert; I believe that you hold all the answers within and during the process of therapy your innate wisdom will begin to emerge.
The quality of the relationship between therapist and client is the key to a successful therapeutic outcome. I am a warm, loving, and friendly individual and it is my hope that you feel comfortable, safe and relaxed in my company.
We will begin by having an initial conversation which is usually around half an hour. This can be in person or on the phone. It is completely free and with no further obligation. This initial chat offers us the space to get to know each other before you embark on your healing journey with me, if that is what you choose to do.
I welcome you as you are and look forward to meeting you.
hello@lovedaytherapy.co.uk
+07901 625287
Therapist: Leigh Loveday
When life feels overwhelming or unclear, it’s natural to want relief; to feel better, to make sense of things, or simply to find a way forward. Person centred therapy offers a safe, supportive space to do just that. It’s a gentle approach that doesn’t start with assumptions or labels. Instead, it begins with you — your unique experiences, and what feels most important right now.
Rather than offering solutions or step-by-step advice, person centred therapy invites a collaborative relationship with your therapist. Through genuine care, deep listening, and the absence of judgement, this approach helps you explore your thoughts and feelings in a way that can lead to meaningful, lasting change.
Many people find that, over time, what initially feels like a need to “fix” something begins to unfold into something more — a chance to reconnect with themselves, discover their own inner resources, and navigate life with greater clarity and self-trust.
Person centred therapy was developed by psychologist Carl Rogers in the 1950s, and has since been widely researched, developed, and applied in diverse settings, including the NHS, as a recognised and effective form of talking therapy.
You don’t need to know exactly what’s wrong, or have the right words — you are welcome just as you are. Person centred therapy meets you there, and grows from that point, at your own pace.
I offer empathy, unconditional positive regard and a non-judgemental space so clients can self-actualise.
Therapist: Kerry Day BA(Hons)Dip Counselling
I explore unconscious patterns, early life experiences and how they affect present behaviour.
Therapist Kerry Day BA(Hons)Dip Counselling
Psychosynthesis is a psychospiritual modality of counselling, meaning that sessions attend to your emotions, thoughts and mental processes as well as offering space to explore more existential matters that relate to spirituality and soul. It has its roots in psychoanalysis, humanistic and transpersonal psychology, blending together Eastern and Western philosophies.
soulmatters11@gmail.com
07523885074
Therapist: Sarah Alford
I am trained in talking-therapy methods and draw on several approaches as needed.
Therapist: Kerry Day BA(Hons)Dip Counselling
[/su_spolier]Psychotherapy. What is most important to you?
Psychotherapy with me offers space for a collaborative enquiry over a short or longer period. It provides support both for addressing pressing concerns and, longer-term, for looking at intentions and desires for a fuller and more fulfilled life. We can, with my background and training, include body-work in order for you to experience better balance and greater relaxation. The corollary here is that improved mental wellbeing can help alleviate ailments and secondary symptoms from physical illness.
I am familiar with working with trauma and the ‘stuckness’ that can result. I can and do work ‘online’ via Zoom.
I also work with the assumption that the climate and ecological crisis affects us all at some level; we can, therefore, embrace ‘ecotherapy’ in our work together.
Therapist Martin Paine
Are you struggling with your marriage or relationship? Do you want to put a stop to endless conflict and find new ways to connect and move forward? Or do you want to re-energise and revitalise your partnership?
I offer solution-focused therapy for couples wishing to move past events or issues that are causing pain and disconnection, towards a more positive and connected future together. Solution focused therapy differs from conventional therapy in that we do not dwell on the past but instead focus on the desired future of the couple. We will work collaboratively to set realistic goals and talk about how to achieve them. This approach looks at the couples’ strengths and will work to build upon those instead of shining the spotlight at perceived weaknesses. The future orientated nature of this therapy and the focus on strengths and not weaknesses are beneficial for achieving and sustaining desired behavioural change.
The length of treatment is usually between six and eight sessions but may extend beyond this depending on how couples progress. I will incorporate my knowledge and skills of person-centred therapy into the sessions alongside the solution-focused approach as I find this to be most effective. Please see my other profile (insert link here) to read about my work with individuals from a person-centred perspective.
I will be dedicated to your relationship and maintain an unbiased attitude towards you both. I will also help you both to express yourselves without feeling threatened or diminished in any way. My desire is to see you move towards each other with love, understanding and a renewed hope for the future.
Please get in touch for an initial 30-minute session to see if I might be the right therapist for you. This is completely free of charge and there is no obligation to continue. I look forward to meeting you.
hello@lovedaytherapy.co.uk
+07901 625287
Therapist: Leigh Loveday
Therapist Kerry Day BA(Hons)Dip Counselling
Specialises in holistic psychological therapy, supporting people to recover from trauma, loss, mental health difficulties, and chronic health conditions.
Therapist:Dr Paula Pearson
Talk , share and learn in a supportive, safe environment.Learn a range of cognitive behavioural skills as well as physical, practical and relaxation techniques that can help you manage stress and the challenges of everyday life and regain some balance. Available on an individual or group basis with Kate King.
Therapist : Melissa HowellBrian Tregunna Ruth Freeman
Is a healing system of theory and practice. It is a combination of breathing exercises, physical postures, and meditation that has been practiced for more than 5,000 years.
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Therapist : Ruth Bennett offering 1:1 sessions
I’m a qualified counsellor specialising in working with young adults in their 20s and 30s. I provide a welcoming and supportive space for you to explore your feelings and experiences, no matter how big or small they feel.
I work in a Person-Centred way, meaning I follow your lead and go at your pace. I understand that everyone’s counselling journey is as unique as they are and we can work together to find a way forward that feels right for you.
If you’re struggling with difficult or overwhelming feelings, looking for support to navigate life’s challenges, or simply looking for someone to listen without judgment, you’re in the right place. I have experience working with clients around:
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Stress and overwhelm
- Low self-esteem and confidence
- Anxiety
- Depression and low mood
- Childhood trauma
- Work stress
Therapist : Maya Field Kerry Day BA(Hons)Dip Counselling
