Personalised therapy - because one-size does not fit all. We don't ask to be born into this world, and yet here we find ourselves. Especially if we're young.
With over 30 years experience in the mental health arenas, I can offer tailored work to suit your needs - counselling, hypnotherapy, lifeline rewrites, stress reduction, trauma recovery. Sometimes the situation in which we find ourselves feels instinctively 'wrong', unfair, but the only option open to us is to manage as best we can. Or old. Or any age really. When the 'managing as best we can' leaves us drained, or unsure of who we are, feeling guilty for 'not doing better', or angry at the world in general, that's the time to seek support and help to make sense of what is going on. If your experiences have included being outright abused, neglected, ridiculed, bullied, ignored and dismissed, or you have witnessed trauma the like of which no one ought to see or feel, then getting support can prove to be a lifeline. Just because you may be able to look around and see others apparently doing better, seemingly having a good life, or having it 'worse' than you, this does not mean that your efforts are failing. Or that your difficulties are in any way irrelevant or too small to trouble someone with. If you have been told you have depression, anxiety, PTSD, BPD, DID, or any mental health diagnosis, you will be welcome here - I don't automatically exclude anyone because of a label. Knowing that there is someone here who not only cares about your situation, but also how you are, and who could also help you to gain some level of peace of mind and a life that feels better, I hope gives you some hope. If you feel you want some help, get in touch. I have years of experience of helping fellow human beings to battle their demons, regain their equilibrium, put down the burdens carried for others, and feel better. Live better. You can do this. And I could help you - because I've been there.
22/09/2025
I know about this.
I'm there too.
For understanding of the effects of depleted energies, I could be your person π
It's not just about getting a good night's sleep.
Or planning ahead of time.
It's about what you have in-the-moment.
And I could help to navigate that and reduce the guilt and self-recrimination that often comes along too.
I'm back working from w/c 13th October - so contact in confidence.
Sometimes when we cannot withstand the horrors being dealt to us, but cannot physically leave, we leave by other means - dissociating, 'daydreaming', focusing on something else (like maybe the colours that the sun plays on the lightshade above us, or the sounds of the traffic outside......)
We simply cannot stay where we are.
If this feels relevant to you, and you wish to be heard and acknowledged in your experience (without needing to revisit and relive it all in technicolour vividness....) ....
contact in confidence contact@timeforcounselling.co.uk
07906260310
Please do know that necessary building works at the premises mean that delays are possible in response/attending/acknowledging contacts.
Your contact will be logged, and responded to ASAP π
21/09/2025
So.......
For the next 2 weeks, maybe more, I'll be living here while the house is attended by builders.
For info - never, ever, close off, or try to seal up, lime-mortared structures. Don't paint the outside, don't use brick sealant. Lime needs to 'breathe'. If it's sealed so it can't, it will fail within just a few years. The moisture that then can't escape will be trapped and will freeze in winter, expanding and gradually breaking its surroundings in the cold, and in the direct sunshine of full-summer, it will further break the surrounding bricks.
Needless to say, we didn't do this.
It's an unhappy inheritance.
Hoping to be back in the chair w/c 13th October π
This is what a trauma informed therapist will be aiming for - to assist with co-regulation, offering the space to experience, as many times as needed, those reassurances that perhaps were not given to you in your childhood - so you can progress towards being able to do this for yourself π
We cannot think our way into being able to self-soothe. We have to experience it first. It's a clear principle in brain development that we need to experience soothing before self-soothing brain networks can develop.
is hard enough to experience, but the judgement we receive afterwards can be just as bad. Whose standards are we being judged by when we're told we're not recovering fast enough or well enough?
When you call me, I'm likely to not be able to answer.
This I because I silence the phone when with a client and don't interrupt their time by doing anything phone related.
And if you call in the evening, I'm doing those important household and family stuff that can't be done in work hours π
So please do leave a message, as this allows me to understand that you're not a scammer, and you are OK with me calling you back.
From working with Victim Support, without a message, I don't know who I'm calling, and personal safety can be compromised.
So please do leave a message when you call π€
17/09/2025
Noticing those times when folk feel they're done with their therapy...... maybe because they've completed their individual work and have now come to a place of power and self care; a place that no longer needs outside guidance or curiosity to support.
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This is what I aim for!
I am not, emphatically NOT, aligned with any therapy protocols that require you to continue beyond what You wish to do.
I will be back in the chair from w/c 13th October 2025.
Over 30 years in the mental healthcare arena.
I'm not one of those fly-by-night charlatans.
Fully qualified, experienced, insured.
15/09/2025
From 22nd September until w/c 13th October, I will be effectively out of office.
The house requires some healing and mending, meaning it's really not going to be possible to have visitors in-person while workmen and equipment are around, and the expected noise will certainly not be good for online meetings.
Thank you for your understanding π
13/09/2025
Remember this.
Are you excusing someone's behaviour?
Are they expecting you to make unreasonable allowances for their misbehaviour?
Contact in confidence for confidential psychological support.
Please be aware - building works at the premises will mean some possible delay in attending/appointments/responding to contacts.
Thank you so much for your continued support, trust, and understanding π
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After many years in the NHS, military and the private sector working in mental health care settings as a qualified nurse, I can now bring that experience to counselling and therapy services as an independent professional.
Working with an independent therapist, you can be assured that your work won't be limited by any arbitrary timelines set by organisations whose aims may be set to other agendas than concentrating on you. Your time here is important, whether that be as someone seeking support with a specific issue or a challenging life situation, or as a student or colleague gaining mentorship or clinical supervision.
I am fully qualified, with a BSc in Integrative Counselling, and regulated through my membership of the National Council of Psychotherapists.
If you are finding life tricky, facing stress, bereavement, feeling angry or anxious for a lot of your time, leaving the military or having issues from your Service, been told you have depression or other mental health matter, or even if you are finding it difficult to know how to stop a habit of thinking or of doing, then counselling may be useful for you.
I have worked with those struggling with cPTSD, DID, GAD, sudden unexpected loss and facing court procedures, adult survivors of childhood sexual and ritual abuse, as well as those who are run ragged by the unrelenting stresses of modern life and need somewhere to turn.
Time For: Make Time For yourself in this busy world.