Counselling and Psychotherapy in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire and Cheddleton in the Staffordshire Moorlands.
Does life feel like its getting on top of you?
Could you benefit from a place to take some time-out?
Asking for help is the first important step to taking control and beginning to understand your emotional distress. Counselling aims to help you explore and clarify problems and issues that matter to you. I can help you to explore situations that are proving difficult and together we can find the best way forward for you. Counselling is not however only about problems, it offers the opportunity to get to know yourself better and to develop your potential as a person.
My name is Vanessa Watkins and I have been a practising counsellor in Stoke on Trent, which is in the Staffordshire region, since 1997. I am committed to providing counselling and psychotherapy in a safe, confidential and non-judgemental environment.
I work with both individuals and couples on an open-ended basis or for an agreed time period, with the aim of enabling you to enhance your life and to live it more fully.
I am a member of the BACP and am bound by its Ethical Framework for Good Practice and subject to its Professional Conduct Procedure.
As an experienced counsellor I use a range of therpeutic models/techniques from Person Centred Counselling,a humanistic approach, to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and more which I integrate to provide the therapy which is most effective to you.
I am experienced in helping clients who have experienced difficulties with :
Stress
Bereavement/Grief
Relationship and Personal Issues
Coping with Terminal illness
Self Confidence/Self Esteem
Panic Attacks
Anxiety
Redundancy
Depression,
Anger management
Guilt/Shame
Fear
Assertiveness
Coping with Retirement/Redundancy/Unemployment
Managing Conflict
Occupational Stress
Although I cater for all the above aspects, I do specialize in Bereavement/Grief, Stress Management and Assertiveness
My counselling and psychotherapy practice is based in Stoke on Trent Staffordshire, within easy reach of the A50 and A500 and close to Longton Cottage Hospital, and also Cheddleton in the Staffordshire Moorlands, close to Leek.
