Pineal Counselling

Private Counselling Practice: offering home visits, telephone and office apts and also walk & talk (outdoors).

I am qualified as an Integrative Psychotherapist /Counsellor, using various theories to address a variety of concerns, these include:

Person Centred (Client Talking Therapy)

Psychodynamic (Exploring childhood and deep rooted issues)

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Working together to resolve present day concerns)

Solution Focused (A goal directed collaborative approach)

Transpersonal: This is a holistic practice concerned with the body, mind and spirit. Taking an holistic approach allows for viewing life and life experiences as part of the larger process of spiritual development, facilitating the growth process through a variety of means aimed at revealing the true self and inner authenticity of the client. The aim is to address mental, physical, emotional, social, creative, and intellectual needs, with an emphasis on the role of a healthy spirit in healing.

Existential: Existential therapy focuses on free will, self-determination, and the search for meaning, often cantering on you rather than on the symptom. The approach emphasises your capacity to make rational choices and to develop to your maximum potential.

The existential approach stresses that:
All people have the capacity for self-awareness.
Acute Anxiety is part of the human condition.
What else is existential therapy recommended for? Psychological problems like substance abuse result from an inhibited ability to make authentic, meaningful, and self-directed choices about how to live, according to the existential approach.
Interventions often aim to increase self-awareness and self-understanding. Existential psychotherapists try to comprehend and alleviate a variety of symptoms, including excessive anxiety, alienation, avoidance, shame, addiction, despair, depression, guilt, anger, resentment, embitterment, purposelessness. Also focusing on life-enhancing experiences like relationships, love, caring, commitment, courage, creativity, power, will, presence, spirituality, individuation, self-actualisation, authenticity, acceptance and transcendence.

Initial free half hour consultation, for us to meet and decide if I am the right counsellor for you.

Alison Simone Bsc (Hons) MBACP

Private Psychotherapy /Counselling Practice available for home visits, office apt's, telephone apt's, also walk and talk therapy.