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Counselling Knutsford
10 Pool End
WA9 3RE St Helens |
Steve | Person-centred counsellor
Counselling Knutsford
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You don’t need perfect words to start.
You can arrive confused, angry, shut down, burnt out, or just tired of the same loop. The work here is simple: get clear, get honest, and get moving, without blame, without drama, without pretending.
How I work
I’m direct, calm, and grounded. I’m not a therapist in a chair while you unravel alone. I’m in the room with you, thinking, questioning, reflecting patterns back, and helping you see the structure of what’s happening.
That can look like:
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naming the pattern you keep repeating
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spotting what you’re protecting, avoiding, or controlling
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separating emotion from interpretation
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finding the leverage point where choice returns
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building a next step you can actually do
Individuals
You get a place to slow down, tell the truth, and understand your own behaviour without reducing yourself to labels. The aim isn’t “cope better”. The aim is orientation.
Couples
I don’t take sides. I work for two individuals and track the dynamics between you. We look at what each of you is doing that keeps the system stuck, and what changes when responsibility becomes real.
Format
Sessions are long-format (90 minutes). You can come once, you can come often, there’s no assumed path, I work around you.
Fit
This is for you if you want clarity, responsibility, and real movement.
It’s not for you if you want soft validation, a referee, or someone to “fix” your partner.
Starting point
If you’re unsure, book an introductory call. No pressure, no obligation, just a human conversation to see if this fits.
Online therapy
Level 4 Diploma in Person-Centred counselling and registered with the BACP.
Private practice since 2017.
Fully insured.
I work in a grounded, respectful way, with a strong emphasis on clarity, agency, and personal responsibility. My approach is shaped by therapy training, couples work, systems thinking, and years of real client conversations.
Qualifications and registrations
I have a level 4 Diploma in Person Centred Counselling and I am a member of the BACP.
To give you the greatest help I can I draw upon the years of professional training I received, as well as years of experience working with a vast range of clients. I also use my personal life experiences and all the knowledge gained from hundreds of books, countless videos, seminars, talks and other forms of wisdom I have acquired.
Registrations
I offer therapy in
Specialisations
- 1. Communication issues
- 2. Relationship conflict
- 3. Emotional disconnection
- 4. Infidelity & rebuilding trust
- 5. Anxiety & overwhelm
- 6. Self-esteem & confidence
- 7. Boundaries & people-pleasing
- 8. Phone Call Therapy
- 9. Repeating Patterns
Specialisations and Expertises
My focus is clarity-led counselling for individuals and couples who feel stuck in repeating patterns.
Most treated issues
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Communication breakdown (talking in circles, shutting down, escalation, misattunement)
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Relationship conflict (resentment, blame loops, power struggles, “same row, different day”)
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Emotional disconnection (distance, coldness, loneliness in the relationship, loss of intimacy)
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Infidelity & repair (truth, accountability, rebuilding trust, deciding what’s possible)
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Anxiety & overwhelm (rumination, panic, burnout, relationship uncertainty)
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Self-esteem & confidence (self-doubt, shame, approval-seeking, fear of being “too much”)
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Boundaries & people-pleasing (over-functioning, guilt, saying yes when you mean no)
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Phone and video sessions (UK-wide, calm, direct, long-format when needed)
How the work tends to look
I help you understand what’s actually happening beneath the surface, the pattern, the protection, the trigger points, and the role each person plays in keeping the system stuck. The aim is agency: clear insight that turns into a next step you can act on.
Most common issues I support people with:
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Repeating arguments / stuck loops
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Communication breakdown & resentment
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Trust, betrayal, repair (including infidelity)
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Emotional disconnection / intimacy issues
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Anxiety, overwhelm, and relationship uncertainty
Therapies offered
- ✓ Affordable counselling
- ✓ Cancer counselling
- ✓ Career counselling
- ✓ Coaching
- ✓ Counselling
- ✓ Couples counselling
- ✓ Life coaching
- ✓ Low cost counselling
- ✓ Online counselling
- ✓ Person-centred therapy
- ✓ Relationship Counselling
- ✓ Sex counselling
- ✓ Skype counselling
- ✓ Solution focused therapy
- ✓ Telephone counselling
- ✓ Transactional Analysis
- ✓ Trauma therapy
- ✓ Zoom counselling
Areas of counselling I can help with
- ✓ Abortion
- ✓ Abuse
- ✓ Addiction
- ✓ Anger management
- ✓ Anorexia nervosa
- ✓ Anxiety
- ✓ Attachment disorder
- ✓ Being a perfectionist
- ✓ Being assertive
- ✓ Bereavement, grief, loss
- ✓ Binge-eating disorder
- ✓ Bulimia
- ✓ Bullying
- ✓ Burnout
- ✓ Communication
- ✓ Self confidence
- ✓ Covid-19 Anxiety
- ✓ Depression
- ✓ Eating disorders
- ✓ Family problems
- ✓ Fear
- ✓ Feeling lonely
- ✓ Feeling sad
- ✓ Hoarding
- ✓ Hyperventilation
- ✓ Infertility
- ✓ Insecurity
- ✓ Jealousy
- ✓ Low self esteem
- ✓ Miscarriage
- ✓ Obsessive compulsive disorder
- ✓ Panic attack
- ✓ Panic disorder
- ✓ Performance anxiety
- ✓ Phobia
- ✓ Post-traumatic stress disorder
- ✓ Postnatal depression
- ✓ Relationship issues
- ✓ Self-harm
- ✓ Setting boundaries
- ✓ Sleep problems
- ✓ Social phobia
- ✓ Stress
- ✓ Trauma
- ✓ Workplace stress
- ✓ Worrying too much
Fees
- 20-Minute free introductory
- 90 Minute session via Phone Call = £70
- 90 Minute session via Video = £80
- 90 Minute session In-Person = £90
Concessionary rates and block booking are available on request.
Availability (Opening hours)
| Monday | from 10am to 8pm |
| Tuesday | from 10am to 8pm |
| Wednesday | from 10am to 8pm |
| Thursday | from 10am to 8pm |
| Friday | from 10am to 8pm |
| Saturday | from 10am to 8pm |
| Sunday | from 10am to 8pm |
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Reviews Counselling Knutsford
Below you will find reviews about Counselling Knutsford - Steve
Based on 4 reviews
I was really nervous as I had never had counselling before, but Steve put me at ease from the very first contact. He gave me good advice and made me look at things in a different light that I would not have otherwise thought of. Have recommended to my friends.
I found working with Steve rather enlightening he has a great way of cutting through the crap and getting to the point, I feel he wanted to help rather than keep me coming back longer.
I was expecting to feel judged when I told the counsellor about what I was doing to my partner. He was understanding and always made me feel he was on my side and wanted to help me. With his help I could see I was harming myself more than anyone else and this helped me decide what I wanted to do. I would be happy to recommend counselling here. Thanks again Steve.
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