Josephine Ronnenbergh

I currently have availability to take on new clients both online or face-to-face in Surrey or Hampshire. 

Would you like to talk about what goes on in your life and in your head? Want to be sure that you will not be judged and that you feel safe whilst exploring your thoughts, feelings and behaviours? Maybe you are wondering which event or events in your life have most affected how you feel. There could be relationships, past, present, and future which play on your mind. Do you want healthier relationships? Do you wonder if the way you feel gets in the way of you getting what you want out of life or living the life you want? You may have feelings you do not understand or believe you have lost yourself and no longer know how you feel.

I am a qualified, accredited counsellor and Psychotherapist and I work with young people (16+), adults and couples. I can help you go through changes in your life or decide to make a change. I can support you through your grief, loss, career choices, relationship issues, communication, work related problems, stress, depression, anxiety or trauma.

Life can be a struggle at times and having someone who helps you make sense of your overwhelming feelings can be soothing. Someone who takes time to listen and tries to understand what life is like for you can be calming and help you find your own direction. I have been trained by Relate as a Relationship Counsellor and by Cruse as a Bereavement specialist.

I integrate psychotherapeutic approaches which look at your past, present and future. My practice is primarily informed by Psychodynamic and attachment theories and so will help you make links between your childhood relationships and your current ones and look to consciously form more healthy relationships.

My style is warm and challenging whereby I encourage self-care and compassion and will highlight where I notice a client is self sabotaging or being hard on themselves and look to replace those behaviors with more helpful ones.

I am undergoing advanced training specializing  in emotionally focused therapy. This approach called Integrative Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) looks at how repressed emotions cause anxiety and depression and lead to behaviors that may help you cope but do not alleviate the pain and suffering at the source of the anxiety or depression. With more awareness of these patterns of behavior and increased understanding of how to changes these behaviors problematic anxiety and depression can be a thing of the past. 

I work somatically, looking at how the body, mind and emotions are interconnected and believe everyone can live a more holistic, healthy life at peace with themselves, within their relationships and their lives. 

Our first session will be an assessment where I will ask to hear what is troubling you and what you want from therapy and together we will formulate a plan for the future. In this first session I would like to hear about your previous experiences of other therapies, medications and medical history.