Alena Quartermaine MBACP(Accred) MNCS(Accred)

About

I provide a convenient online Individual and Couples Counselling/Psychotherapy for various issues such as relationship difficulties, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, bereavement, anger management, family issues, low self-esteem, lack of confidence, postnatal depression, trauma, work related issues, stress. ..
My aim in my work with a client /a couple is to establish a good rapport, gain a good understanding about what is bringing you to counselling and your goals for therapy. Working together on presenting and underlying issues, looking into how to process and manage difficult feelings, raising client's/couple's awareness about possible impact of past experiences on current situation.
I believe that having a good self-awareness leads to more fulfilling life as it offers a choice on how to deal with life challenges as well as relationships from more objective perspective.
In couples therapy my aim is to work together with a couple to explore unhelpful patterns of behaviour, process difficult emotions and most importantly look into ways how to handle conflict differently, respectfully with more awareness and compassion for one another. The crucial part of couple therapy is to work on communication skills, establishing what is working for the couple and what needs to be changed. Sometimes before or throughout therapy couple might decide to separate, then the work is based on how to do so amicably and respectfully.

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