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GP Counselling offers extensive counselling experience working with serious mental health illnesses, emotional difficulties and specialised addiction counselling. GP Counselling is client centred, values diversity, fairness and equality and offers a safe, secure environment to talk through your presenting issues in the Lisburn and Omagh Practices.
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What do you love most about your job?
Being able to help and support people to find a solutions to their mental health and emotional problems. When working with addictions I get job satisfaction knowing I have helped clients get sober or clean off drugs, it makes the hard work I put into helping these clients worthwhile and meaningful. Addiction is a serious mental health illness, addiction counselling is difficult and challenging due to the many layers of emotional and mental health issues that underpin it. It is a humbling experience when clients trust me and allow me into their lives, seeing them beginning to live instead of surviving gives me much pleasure and there are no words I can find to explain the feeling.
What inspired you to start your own business?
Working as a facilitator in the field of Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland I witnessed when people felt safe and secure they could share stories and start healing. This work lead me to train as a Counsellor and after graduating I worked as a Trauma Counsellor for three years in the voluntary sector. I trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Motivational Interviewing and onto Addiction Counselling for the past thirteen years working with individuals, family, friends and groups.
Why should our clients choose you?
Whilst I specialise in Addictions I have had experience working with all other serious mental health illness and emotional difficulties. As one model does not fit all clients I use a combined approach as an Integrative Counsellor using various tools and techniques from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Person Centred Therapy and Motivational Therapy to find a custom and bespoke model to address your issues and difficulties in a safe and secure environment free of judgement. I value equality and diversity and welcome clients irrespective of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion and culture.
Can you provide your services online or remotely? If so, please add details.
My services are offered online via Teams and remotely via telephone counselling
What changes have you made to keep your customers safe from Covid-19?
I offered online and remote counselling at the beginning of the Pandemic. When the rules were relaxed I offered face to face counselling. The chairs spaced out to accommodate social distance. Hand sanitiser was placed at the front hall of the practice and face masks were supplied. Clients were asked to answer a Covid questionnaire before their first session e.g. have you had any symptoms, been around someone who has? Thermal screening was used to prevent the spread of the disease when clients arrived at the practice.
Whilst I specialise in addiction counselling I am not limited to it. Over my sixteen years of experience I have worked with clients presenting with the following serious mental health and emotional difficulties.
Alcohol and or Drug Abuse
Lost direction in life
Depression
Anxiety
Child Abuse
Sexual Abuse
Clerical Abuse
Relationship Difficulties
Divorce
Anger Issues
Job Loss
Baby Loss
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Covid Post Traumatic Stress Experience
Domestic Violence
Bullying
Sexual Harassment
Clinical Supervision
I am a qualified and experienced Clinical Supervisor offering student and qualified counsellors an effective supervision experience. It is a supervisee centred service in a safe and secure environment offering reflective practice to grow and mature as a counsellor.
The service offers a free first consultation to agree a way or working, setting out the contract, boundaries, fee, dates, times and frequency of sessions. Sessions can be face to face or online. My fee is £40 per hour and I operate a sliding scale for student counsellors.
Group Therapy
As people can learn and grow from each other I offer group therapy sessions. It is a client centred service and groups can be open or closed, welcoming diversity and equality. Fees will be agreed depending on the group number.
Partners, Family and Friends affected by addiction
Addiction is not an individual serious mental health illness, it is a family illness and all those connected to the addicted person are indirectly affected. Partners, family and friends become co-dependent on the substance, i.e. if the loved one is not drinking or drugging the partner, family member/members or friend/friends are okay. Therapy for partners, family and friends helps them to understand addiction, to stop enabling their loved one to drink and drug and to detach in love and start living. Sessional fees will be agreed during the free thirty minute consultation.
Couples Therapy
I offer therapy to couples who are experiencing conflict in their relationship, to explore the reasons why and to help and support them to find a solution to their problem. A free thirty minute consultation is offered, and dates, time and fee for sessions will be agreed.
