Henry Adeane MA, FDAP, MBACP, UKCP Reg.
Psychotherapist

About Therapy

Counselling and Psychotherapy are about helping you come to know and accept yourself, and to find your own meanings and ways past the difficulties you are experiencing. Working with a counsellor or psychotherapist is a process of personal development within the therapeutic relationship - most important is the trust and rapport which develops in the course of that work.

All counselling or psychotherapy starts with an initial session in which we discuss your needs and situation in detail, and where you can find out more about my approach to therapy. After that session we may decide to take our work together further or I may suggest a colleague or specialist agency that you can approach for more suitable help. Where necessary, I liaise with GPs or other professionals involved in your care.

What is Counselling?

Counselling is about exploring and gaining insight into distress that has arisen, usually as a result of something current and acute, something that has flared up very recently.

The process of counselling starts with an initial assessment session, where we look at your situation in detail and put together a programme of treatment suitable to your needs and requirements. That treatment would depend very much on the issues we’ll be working with, and the sort of person you are.

The number of sessions would probably be from 4 to 12, taking place once a week.

The process of counselling is very much a collaborative one. I will help you to develop ways of coping with stressful or difficult situations in your daily life, together with building strategies to avoid unproductive or inappropriate behaviour.

As your counsellor I work within an integrated therapeutic model that includes cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). This is a goal-orientated therapy, designed to help you become more independent, self-fulfilled and to achieve lasting personal growth and change.

What is the difference between Counselling & Psychotherapy?

It may become apparent during our assessment that you would benefit more from longer-term psychodynamic psychotherapy than from short-term counselling. This may be the case, for example, if your difficulties are more deeply rooted, or if you have been struggling with destructive patterns of behaviour over a long period.

Psychodynamic psychotherapy aims to increase the awareness of your ‘inner world’ and the influence it holds over your relationships, both from the past and in the present. It differs from most other therapies in that it aims for a much deeper change in personal and emotional development.

We may meet once or twice a week for 12 to 24 months or more, but this would be decided between us, and after our work together has significantly developed we would work towards an agreed ending.

Psychotherapy of this kind explores the connection between events in your early life (which may only be unconsciously remembered) and current disorder and distress. It can help you to access past and present fantasies, feelings, dreams and memories as an aid to healing.

Particular attention is given to the relationship that develops over the course of time with the therapist, as it is through this that the client is able to re-experience emotional situations from early life and resolve long-standing conflicts that have become a barrier to change and growth.

What next?

If you have any questions, please click here to contact me and we can discuss your personal needs or arrange an initial consultation. All enquiries are treated in confidence.