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Shirley | Counsellor
Counselling Swindon
Hello, my name is Shirley. If life has been feeling difficult recently, or if you are feeling ‘stuck’ or overwhelmed, it can really help to talk things through with someone outside of your friends and family. I offer a safe and confidential space where you can explore and process your feelings and work towards change.
Perhaps you experience low self-esteem, feeling that you don’t belong or that you aren’t good enough. Or it could be that current life circumstances, childhood experiences, relationship difficulties or unhelpful thinking patterns and beliefs are contributing to feelings of being overwhelmed and unable to cope. You may be living with depression, anxiety or stress and wondering if anything can change.
Taking time out from everyday life to look at these areas can give you a new sense of perspective and bring healing and growth.
I am a fully qualified counsellor and I offer a warm, empathic and non-judgemental approach to help you feel able to be open and honest. My aim is to work together with you to understand what is going on for you and support and encourage you as you work towards change. Often this begins with accepting ourselves as we are. In his book 'On Becoming a Person', Carl Rogers observes: 'The curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I change’
Online therapy
For online therapy, I use Google Meet. I would send you a link via email which you click to join the meeting. You don't need to have downloaded any special software to do this. It is important that you have a private space where you can talk freely without worrying that you might be overheard.Qualifications and registrations
My qualifications include:- MA Counselling
- B.Ed (Hons)
Registrations
- ACC - The Association of Christian Counsellors
- BACP - The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
- TCUK - Therapycounselling UK
I offer therapy in
Specialisations
As someone with a Christian faith, I am able to offer insight and understanding to people who want to include their own faith experiences as part of the counselling.Most common issues I support people with:
- Self-worth, identity and self-acceptance
- Perfectionism and people pleasing
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Stress
Therapies offered
Areas of counselling I can help with
- ✓ Abortion
- ✓ Abuse
- ✓ Anger management
- ✓ Anxiety
- ✓ Attachment disorder
- ✓ Being a perfectionist
- ✓ Being assertive
- ✓ Bereavement, grief, loss
- ✓ Bullying
- ✓ Burnout
- ✓ Communication
- ✓ Self confidence
- ✓ Depression
- ✓ Family problems
- ✓ Fear
- ✓ Feeling lonely
- ✓ Feeling sad
- ✓ Insecurity
- ✓ Jealousy
- ✓ Low self esteem
- ✓ Relationship issues
- ✓ Retirement
- ✓ Setting boundaries
- ✓ Stress
- ✓ Workplace stress
- ✓ Worrying too much
Fees
Sessions last for approximately 50 minutes and the fee is £50.I offer six sessions at a discounted rate for people on low income. Please contact me to find out more.
Availability (Opening hours)
| Monday | 8am to 6pm |
| Tuesday | - |
| Wednesday | - |
| Thursday | 8am to 6pm |
| Friday | - |
| Saturday | - |
| Sunday | - |
Location
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