Guy Payne

I have face to face availability during the working week in Burley, Hampshire and Poole, Dorset.

I have availability during the working week using on line platforms.

I am an Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist. My specialisms include working with Adults and Families, Children and Young People using trauma informed approaches and EMDR.

I have been practicing for over 20 years and I have provided therapy in settings such as GP surgeries, London Schools and The Family Court.

I practice in Poole and Burley where I work face to face or via online platforms. I welcome self-referrals from adults, parents and families and I am registered with insurance companies such as BUPA, Vitality, Aviva and Axa.

I use a trauma informed approach, and sometimes EMDR as experience has shown me that this is the best way to aid recovery from the physical and emotional consequences of difficult experiences. My work is aimed at improving your emotional and physical health so you can live in the moment and enjoy your life today.

I treat presentations such as family breakdown, C-PTSD, anxiety, depression and somatic disorders and I have a special interest and enhanced training in attachment focused therapy and helping, individuals, children, families feel better and recover from the physical and psychological impact of trauma.

I am also pleased to receive instructions from Social Care, Primary and Secondary schools and Family Courts and Cafcass in Dorset and Hampshire to whom I am able to provide Expert Witness Reports and clinical assessments. 

I work with foster carers and can offer adoption support to adults. My Family Therapy is DDP informed (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy), my practice is supervised by a DDP trainer consultant. DDP is an evidence-based, attachment focused, treatment that uses neuroscience and attachment theory to underpin practice.

You are welcome to contact me.

In our first session I introduce myself to you and if you are comfortable you can tell me what is happening for you.

By the end of our first session we will have started to evolve a treatment plan for you including details of how you would like to feel better and what I will do to support this.

I believe healing can only take place within the context of a safe therapeutic relationship and I will do my uttermost to create this safety. I think this is the only way we can make sense of what has happened to you and co-create an effective healing pathway for you.

I only use therapies that have a well-established evidence base and that are proven to help relieve the hard to feel symptoms of anxiety and depression and the difficult consequences of relationship breakdown, sudden loss and bereavement and childhood trauma.

I have face to face availability during the working week in Burley, Hampshire and Poole, Dorset.

I have availability during the working week using on line platforms.

I am Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy informed. DDP is an evidence-based, attachment focused, treatment that uses neuroscience and attachment theory to underpin practice.

I am an EMDER therapist.

I treat presentations such as family breakdown, PTSD, anxiety, depression and somatic disorders and I have a special interest and enhanced training in attachment focused family therapy and helping children, families and individuals recover from the physical and psychological impact of trauma.

I have practices in Dorset and Hampshire where I support children, families and adults and where I supervise the work of other therapists.

I also provide on going training and support to organisations who wish enhance employee well being.

I am an attachment focused, trauma informed practitioner and when you meet with me I will take the perspective that something has happened to you rather than something is wrong with you. 

I believe healing takes place within the context of a safe relationship and I believe it is my responsibility to provide you, or someone you love, with the space and safety to make sense of how you feel.

You are welcome to contact me directly and I take referrals from Social Care in Dorset and Hampshire, Dorset NHS, schools and insurance companies such as BUPA and Aviva. 

I am also take instructions from Family Courts in Bournemouth and Portsmouth, CAFCASS and solicitors. I am able to provide clinical assessments for the Family Court on family systems as well as providing short and long term, attachment focused, interventions to family systems, traumatised by animosity and mistrust following divorce and separation. My work with parents is aimed at enabling them to provide a safer more emotionally regulated environment for their children.

I will introduce my practice to you in our first session and if you are comfortable to proceed you can tell me what is happening for you. 

By the end of our first session or second I will know if I can help you and I will outline a treatment plan, explaining my methodology and the outcomes I wish to provide you.

I will let you know if I think that other work needs to take place before counselling can commence.