psychology for health

Dr richard golsworthy

 Counselling Psychologist

 

psychology for Health

Hello and welcome.

I am an HCPC Registered Counselling Psychologist, with more than 25 years experience in NHS, third sector and independent psychology services. 

If you are reading this, you are likely feeling in a stuck, difficult or distressing place in your life. We all bring a unique history and mind-set to the life difficulties we encounter. Although these will have given us strengths to help manage problems, sometimes we need to discover new ways we might feel, think or act.

I think of my specialism as ‘stuckness’ – whether in emotions, relationships or unhelpful behaviours – which is often expressed in terms such as: anxiety, depression, stress, fear, trauma, low self-esteem, sleep problems, bulimia and binge eating, and difficulties in adjustment to loss, illness & major life changes.

Underlying my work is a commitment to the therapeutic relationship itself as an essential and active ingredient for successful therapy. Therapy involves both developing a shared understanding of the nature of difficulties being experienced, as well as an active partnership which draws on your strengths and values to develop life affirming change.

I often suggest including a focus on strengths and values in therapy, in order to help see further than the problem, building resilience and realising your life-affirming potentials.

 

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