Erica Newman

As a fully qualified counsellor, I specialise in working outdoors and passionately believe in the positive benefits of exercise and being outdoors for mental health. I offer walk and talk counselling sessions and I am also able to offer face to face, online or telephone sessions from a private therapy room, as required.

I have been in the caring profession in one way or another throughout my working life, beginning with nursing and midwifery and I bring all this experience into my counselling. I also bring an enthusiasm for the outdoors working as a professional gardener and an awareness of all the benefits to mental and physical health that the outdoors provides.

My qualifications include a masters degree in counselling from York St John university, which involved research on walk and talk counselling. I am an accredited member of the BACP abiding by their ethical framework and maintaining continued professional development.

I have had experience of working with a wide range of mental health difficulties including depression, anxiety, grief, loss, stress, loneliness, relationship difficulties and difficulty coping with significant life events, to name but a few. I also have a particular interest in difficulties associated with the menopause.

Alongside my private practice, I work as a counsellor in the volunteer sector.

As a fully qualified counsellor, I specialise in working outdoors and passionately believe in the positive benefits of exercise and being outdoors for mental health. I offer walk and talk counselling sessions and I am able to offer face to face, online or telephone sessions as required.

I have been in the caring profession in one way or another throughout my working life, beginning with nursing and midwifery and I bring all this experience into my counselling. I also bring an enthusiasm for the outdoors working as a professional gardener and an awareness of all the benefits to mental and physical health that the outdoors provides.

My qualifications include a masters degree in counselling from York St John university, which involved research on walk and talk counselling. I am an accredited member of the BACP abiding by their ethical framework and maintaining continued professional development.

I have had experience of working with a wide range of mental health difficulties including depression, anxiety, grief, loss, stress, loneliness, relationship difficulties and difficulty coping with significant life events, to name but a few. I also have a particular interest in difficulties associated with the menopause. 

Alongside my private practice, I work as a counsellor in the volunteer sector.

As a humanistic counsellor, I believe that you are unique, with your own individual experience of life and I will provide you with a safe, confidential and supportive space to talk about your difficulties and hopes. I will listen without judgement as I try to gain understanding of your life experience. I will be open and honest with you and support you to find your own best way forward as you are the expert in your life experience. Counselling is a process of gaining a better understanding of yourself that will enable you to make choices and feel more freedom to find ways to move forward. 

I offer an initial, free 30 minute telephone session, for you to talk about what has brought you to counselling and what you hope to gain from it. You may wish to ask questions and I will provide as much information as I can about the way I work, the counselling and what future sessions might be like. If we both feel that we can work together then an appointment can be made for a further session.