Dominic McMurray

I currently have limited availability and can offer sessions throughout the week, including evening sessions.

Hello, I’m Dom, I am a qualified Integrative Counsellor and I offer sessions both in person and online.

Life can be a tricky balance. Our jobs, relationships, families and loss can all cause us stress and anxiety while past life events can contribute to how we deal with our everyday challenges.

Counselling can help us find some equilibrium.

Before qualifying as an Integrative Counsellor I enjoyed a career in a creative sector. I’ve experienced the stress and anxiety that juggling work with our home life can cause, and how this can spiral.

As we all emerged from the constraints of Covid I set up a local running group to provide peer to peer mental health support and help process the emotional damage that living through the pandemic had inflicted on us all. Very quickly I witnessed the profound value of talking, listening and human connection. I realised I needed some basic helping skills so that runners could share their feelings in a safe environment. This sowed a seed and began my formal training to become a counsellor.

As well as my private practice I volunteer at a not-for-profit agency, Counselling For Life that provides affordable counselling for people with a low income.

I have lived and worked in the Middle East and Asia amongst diverse cultures and faiths which has enhanced my understanding of difference and is intrinsic to my practice. 

My approach

As an integrative counsellor I practice a blended approach drawing on various modalities and theories that woven together enable a unique and curative relationship between myself and my client. Together we reflect on the present, explore the past and visualise a positive future.

How I work

I apply the tenets of Carl Rogers’ Person Centred Therapy approach to create a healing environment that is supportive and empathetic, enabling you to explore and understand yourself without fear of judgement. Rogers believed we all have the inner resources to foster personal growth and positive change. We all have the ability to heal.

My process

I draw on Psychodynamic theories to help you understand how your life history has impacted on you. We all carry emotional scars, and we often allow ourselves to be defined by them, but by exploring what lies beneath we can understand the root cause, adjust our perspective, find acceptance and initiate change.

What you can expect

There is no magic wand, no bag of miracles, no advice – but there will be absolute faith that you have the resilience to find your pathway to change. I will accompany you on that path, by your side every step of the way. Your journey may be challenging but you will not be alone.

Taking the first steps on your counselling journey can be very daunting and I recommend a full first session to enable an appropriate assessment of your needs and goals. In this session we will also agree how we will work together and answer any questions you may have about counselling. We will start as we mean to go on – with warmth, empathy and above all at your pace.

There are no obligations by attending this assessment session during which we will agree how we will proceed with further sessions.

Please do reach out to me to agree a convenient time.

I currently have limited availability and can offer sessions throughout the week, including evening sessions.

Hello, I’m Dom, I am a qualified Integrative Counsellor and I offer sessions both in person and online.

Life can be a tricky balance. Our jobs, relationships, families and loss can all cause us stress and anxiety while past life events can contribute to how we deal with our everyday challenges.

Counselling can help us find some equilibrium.

Before qualifying as an Integrative Counsellor I enjoyed a career in a creative sector. I’ve experienced the stress and anxiety that juggling work with our home life can cause, and how this can spiral.

As we all emerged from the constraints of Covid I set up a local running group to provide peer to peer mental health support and help process the emotional damage that living through the pandemic had inflicted on us all. Very quickly I witnessed the profound value of talking, listening and human connection. I realised I needed some basic helping skills so that runners could share their feelings in a safe environment. This sowed a seed and began my formal training to become a counsellor.

As well as my private practice I volunteer at a not-for-profit agency, Counselling For Life that provides affordable counselling for people with a low income.

I have lived and worked in the Middle East and Asia amongst diverse cultures and faiths which has enhanced my understanding of difference and is intrinsic to my practice. 

My approach

As an integrative counsellor I practice a blended approach drawing on various modalities and theories that woven together enable a unique and curative relationship between myself and my client. Together we reflect on the present, explore the past and visualise a positive future.

How I work

I apply the tenets of Carl Rogers’ Person Centred Therapy approach to create a healing environment that is supportive and empathetic, enabling you to explore and understand yourself without fear of judgement. Rogers believed we all have the inner resources to foster personal growth and positive change. We all have the ability to heal.

My process

I draw on Psychodynamic theories to help you understand how your life history has impacted on you. We all carry emotional scars, and we often allow ourselves to be defined by them, but by exploring what lies beneath we can understand the root cause, adjust our perspective, find acceptance and initiate change.

What you can expect

There is no magic wand, no bag of miracles, no advice – but there will be absolute faith that you have the resilience to find your pathway to change. I will accompany you on that path, by your side every step of the way. Your journey may be challenging but you will not be alone.

Taking the first steps on your counselling journey can be very daunting and I recommend a full first session to enable an appropriate assessment of your needs and goals. In this session we will also agree how we will work together and answer any questions you may have about counselling. We will start as we mean to go on – with warmth, empathy and above all at your pace.

There are no obligations by attending this assessment session during which we will agree how we will proceed with further sessions.

Please do reach out to me to agree a convenient time.

I currently have limited availability and can offer sessions throughout the week, including evening sessions.

Hello, I’m Dom, I am a qualified Integrative Counsellor and I offer sessions both in person and online.

Life can be a tricky balance. Our jobs, relationships, families and loss can all cause us stress and anxiety while past life events can contribute to how we deal with our everyday challenges.

Counselling can help us find some equilibrium.

Before qualifying as an Integrative Counsellor I enjoyed a career in a creative sector. I’ve experienced the stress and anxiety that juggling work with our home life can cause, and how this can spiral.

As we all emerged from the constraints of Covid I set up a local running group to provide peer to peer mental health support and help process the emotional damage that living through the pandemic had inflicted on us all. Very quickly I witnessed the profound value of talking, listening and human connection. I realised I needed some basic helping skills so that runners could share their feelings in a safe environment. This sowed a seed and began my formal training to become a counsellor.

As well as my private practice I volunteer at a not-for-profit agency, Counselling For Life that provides affordable counselling for people with a low income.

I have lived and worked in the Middle East and Asia amongst diverse cultures and faiths which has enhanced my understanding of difference and is intrinsic to my practice. 

My approach

As an integrative counsellor I practice a blended approach drawing on various modalities and theories that woven together enable a unique and curative relationship between myself and my client. Together we reflect on the present, explore the past and visualise a positive future.

How I work

I apply the tenets of Carl Rogers’ Person Centred Therapy approach to create a healing environment that is supportive and empathetic, enabling you to explore and understand yourself without fear of judgement. Rogers believed we all have the inner resources to foster personal growth and positive change. We all have the ability to heal.

My process

I draw on Psychodynamic theories to help you understand how your life history has impacted on you. We all carry emotional scars, and we often allow ourselves to be defined by them, but by exploring what lies beneath we can understand the root cause, adjust our perspective, find acceptance and initiate change.

What you can expect

There is no magic wand, no bag of miracles, no advice – but there will be absolute faith that you have the resilience to find your pathway to change. I will accompany you on that path, by your side every step of the way. Your journey may be challenging but you will not be alone.

Taking the first steps on your counselling journey can be very daunting and I recommend a full first session to enable an appropriate assessment of your needs and goals. In this session we will also agree how we will work together and answer any questions you may have about counselling. We will start as we mean to go on – with warmth, empathy and above all at your pace.

There are no obligations by attending this assessment session during which we will agree how we will proceed with further sessions.

Please do reach out to me to agree a convenient time.