Helen Holgate

Life presents every single one of us with challenges and difficulties. I see counselling as a fundamentally hopeful process, helping to bring about change and a brave act to take this first step. I offer an empathic, non-judgemental space with gentle challenge to help you explore troubling issues. I encourage you to listen to yourself to find your own answers and increase your sense of agency and autonomy.

Having trained as a psychotherapeutic counsellor and psychotherapist in transactional analysis, my influences are various: I work integratively, so I draw from both humanistic and psychoanalytic traditions. I believe in the power of talking therapies to improve people's lives, help reframe situations, and shift perspectives.

If you'd like to discuss how I might be able to help you make sense of your place in the world and improve your relationships with yourself and with others, please get in touch for an initial consultation. Sessions take place in a comfortable and private outside office space.

Qualifications:

Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling (Level 6), Metanoia Institute

Diploma in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy (Level 7), Metanoia Institute

MSc in Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy, Middlesex University

Certified Transactional Analyst (CTA)

UKCP Registration

The first session will be an assessment session with a broad range of questions so I can better understand how I may be able to help you, what you are seeking from our work, and how we might best work together.