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David | Counselling and stress management
Counselling Southampton
Whatever’s brought you here, welcome. Maybe I can help you take meaningful steps to meet, get to know and heal protective habits that keep you feeling stuck in important areas of your life.
Wherever you are on the scale from 'OK but want to thrive' to 'Feeling anxious and fed up' to 'Just not coping here', hopefully we can gently untangle what you’re struggling with to support positive change in you and your relationships.
These principles guide my approach to therapy:
- Listening: Growing a kind, aware space where all parts of you are welcome.
- Understanding: Exploring how your history has shaped both helpful and unhelpful habits.
- Creating: Using resourcing, creative approaches to find new perspectives.
- Balancing: Learning to better soothe and regulate your nervous system.
I also offer two holistic stress management practices: My own approach to energy psychology called Gestalt Acu-balancing, and Autogenic Training, a mindfulness-based method used since the 1930s.
Would you like to find out more? If so, let’s have a no-obligation 20-minute video or phone call to help see if we could do some good work together.
Online therapy
I mainly use Google Meet and WhatsApp but am happy to use other secure platforms.If you like the idea of using creative methods as part of counselling or coaching, we can also do this in the online space. What we do will depend on what creative materials you have, or are willing to get hold of.
Qualifications and registrations
An accredited counsellor registered with the BACP, I've used counselling and guidance (coaching) skills to help people work through stuckness and confusion for almost 30 years.Key qualifications include:
- Dip (HE) Humanistic Gestalt Counselling.
- PG Cert Autogenic Therapy.
- PG Dip Careers Guidance.
- BSc (Hons) Psychology.
- Evidence-based EFT skills.
- Strengths Profile Coach.
As well as offering individual therapy, I run workshops to help counsellors and psychotherapists develop their use of creative approaches.
Registrations
Most common issues I support people with:
- Anxiety, stress and worry.
- Feeling stuck in life which may or may not include diagnosed/suspected depression.
- Relationship issues - family, personal and at work. Please note that I do not offer couples counselling.
- Career stagnation and confusion.
Therapies offered
- ✓ ACT
- ✓ Affordable counselling
- ✓ Career counselling
- ✓ Coaching
- ✓ Compassion focused therapy
- ✓ Counselling
- ✓ Emotional Freedom Technique
- ✓ Gestalttherapy
- ✓ Havening Technique
- ✓ Humanistic therapies
- ✓ Integrative Counselling
- ✓ Life coaching
- ✓ Mindfulness
- ✓ Online counselling
- ✓ Sand Tray Therapy
- ✓ Solution focused therapy
- ✓ Telephone counselling
- ✓ Trauma therapy
Areas of counselling I can help with
- ✓ Abuse
- ✓ Addiction
- ✓ Anger management
- ✓ Anxiety
- ✓ Attachment disorder
- ✓ Being a perfectionist
- ✓ Being assertive
- ✓ Bereavement, grief, loss
- ✓ Bullying
- ✓ Burnout
- ✓ Communication
- ✓ Self confidence
- ✓ Covid-19 Anxiety
- ✓ Depression
- ✓ Family problems
- ✓ Fear
- ✓ Feeling lonely
- ✓ Feeling sad
- ✓ Hyperventilation
- ✓ Insecurity
- ✓ Jealousy
- ✓ Living with cancer
- ✓ Low self esteem
- ✓ Panic attack
- ✓ Panic disorder
- ✓ Performance anxiety
- ✓ Phobia
- ✓ Post-traumatic stress disorder
- ✓ Redundancy
- ✓ Relationship issues
- ✓ Retirement
- ✓ Setting boundaries
- ✓ Sleep problems
- ✓ Stress
- ✓ Trauma
- ✓ Workplace stress
- ✓ Worrying too much
Fees
I offer a free 20 minute phonecall or video chat to help us get to know each other.Your initial assessment appointment is £40.
It's usally £50 for ongoing support but I offer a sliding scale based on abilty to pay.
Availability (Opening hours)
| Monday | Some availability |
| Tuesday | Some availability |
| Wednesday | Fully booked |
| Thursday | Some availability |
| Friday | Fully booked |
| Saturday | None |
| Sunday | None |
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