Melissa Lomas

I am currently fully booked until the end of February 2025.  Please contact me if you would like to be placed on a waiting list.

I offer Individual  and Relationship Person Centred Counselling on weekdays by appointment.  Appointments are available face-to-face, online via Zoom or Skype, or over the phone.

I am also an approved Adoption Support Counsellor. This work legally requires specialist training which I completed in 2023 with the Barnardo's LINK Certificate in Adoption Support Counselling. This covers Counselling for Adoptees, Adoptive parents, Special Guardians, Birth parents and Extended Family.

My Practice covers the following areas - Penistone, Barnsley, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Stocksbridge, Deepcar, Oxspring, Thurgoland, Silkstone, Silkstone Common, Thurlstone, Millhouse Green, Chapeltown, Sheffield, Wakefield, Huddersfield.

There is no geographical limitation when working online.

Person Centred Counselling is an approach which empowers the client and allows them to determine the direction Counselling may go in so that they can address, understand, process and resolve the issues they have brought to Counselling. I work with clients in an empathic way, seeking to understand their experience as fully as possible, both through what they tell me in sessions, but also through their body language and patterns of behaviour.

I offer a warm, safe, non-judgemental space in which to explore issues, and work with respect and consideration. I work with honesty, candour and aim to be as authentic as possible with all clients.

A variety of Counselling tools are available depending on the needs and interests of each client, these can range from journal keeping, to visualisations, breathing practices, colour and image work, and role play, to name just a few.

I arrange to speak briefly with any prospective new clients initially over the phone, so that I can take some more details and we can book an Assessment appointment.

The fee for the Assessment appointment is £25 for a 50 minute session, where I take more in depth details, and have a chance to answer any questions about our work together.  This is an opportunity to make sure that we feel comfortable working together and to agree on the focus for the sessions.  This is also the point at which we will agree upon and sign a contract covering our work together.