Our Therapists
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Jane
Barlow
Chester
Jane has many years experience working with children and young people in a school setting, with pupils with severe additional needs in addition to mainstream education.
Jane qualified as a counsellor in 2001. She has a grounding in person centred counselling whilst using other therapeutic models and skills, including CBT, to enhance her therapeutic work.
Her therapeutic background involves working for SANDS (Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Society), RASASC (Rape & Sexual Abuse Support Centre) and NHS Occupational Health.
Currently Jane is working as a School Based Counsellor for children and young people. She has a special interest in Mindfulness, and has recently qualified to teach 11 - 18 years olds with MiSP (Mindfulness In Schools Project).
Jane is a fluent Welsh speaker.
Kerri
Crewe
Chester
Kerri is an accredited therapist with the BACP and the EMDR association (both adults and children) and has over 13 years therapy experience.
She is trained as a integrative therapist and uses Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT), EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) and Neurofeedback into her compassionate and collaborative approach.
Kerri has a special interest in Depression, Anxiety, Stress, Trauma and Neurodiversity (ADHD, Autism, OCD, ODD, Dyslexia etc). She also has lots of experience working with children/young people who find attending school difficult and clients with emotional regulation difficulties.
Kerri also works with small children/young people and adopts a whole family approach when it is necessary to do so. This means that other members of the family may also work with Kerri, to best help the child/young person heal.
Caroline
Dawson
Chester
Caroline is a qualified person-centred counsellor with a Master’s degree in Clinical Counselling and is a registered member of the BACP.
She is a warm, caring and reliable counselling professional with a deep sense of personal and professional integrity. Her formal therapy training is Person-Centred (Humanistic) with a particular interest in Complex Trauma, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and early life Attachment.
Caroline believes passionately that rewarding ourselves the time and space to talk things over confidentially and without judgement with a trained professional - someone who has no bearing on our general day to day life - can really help us grow.
Fully committed to providing compassionate, therapeutic support to adults and young people, she offers a warm, safe and confidential space to clients where they are free to reflect on their inner most thoughts, feelings and behaviours without judgement, appraise their understanding and help reveal a sound and clearer sense of self, ultimately stimulating personal growth and inspiring change.
With a number of years of clinical practice in Higher Education she has worked extensively with young people and adults on a one to one basis. She has worked with clients who have experienced depression and anxiety, stress, issues surrounding shame and low self-worth, loneliness, self-harm, addiction, grief and loss, eating disorders, abuse - physical, sexual, emotional and/or psychological, post-natal depression, issues relating to childhood and relationship difficulties.
Kathryn
Hackland
Chester
Kathryn offers Person Centred counselling and works with both individuals and couples. Her background involves working with peri-natal trauma including miscarriage and stillbirth, post-natal depression, chronic illness, living with uncertainty, anxiety, depression and loss.
Kathryn has also helped clients who have suffered trauma and abuse.
Rupert
Hannibal
Chester
Rupert is a Person-Centred Counsellor, with an underpinning knowledge in psychodynamic theory and training in CBT. Rupert adapts his working approach to meet the needs of his clients and promote the therapeutic relationship. He works together with his clients to establish an understanding of them and their world, facilitating change and growth.
Rupert has experience of working with loss, grief, anxiety, depression, males and their emotions, Young adults and teens, abuse, bullying and other issues but fundamentally he believes that counselling can be helpful to most of us at some point in our lives to make sense of our world, empower us, support us in dealing with our challenges, be happier within ourselves and to be the best we can be.
With over three decades of working & supporting young people and adults with emotional and mental health challenges in a variety of roles, Rupert greatly values his Counselling work. In addition, Rupert reflects how his own experiences of physical health challenges, trauma and bereavement, have impacted his own understanding of how therapy can support us in dealing with a variety of challenges.
Rupert is a registered member of BACP and works to their ethical guidelines and best practice. He continues to develop his skills and knowledge, continuously training to provide the best service that he can for clients.
Adam
Knight
Chester
Adam’s approach is respectful, non-judgemental and supportive. He has a very flexible approach to working and aims to tailor the sessions to your needs. He is a fully qualified Integrative counsellor and uses aspects of cognitive-behavioural, person centred and psychodynamic styles within his approach. This allows him to adapt his style of working to suit his client’s needs on a wide range of issues. He is a member of the National Counselling Society (NCS) and works within their ethical framework.
Adam is an experienced counsellor with a strong working knowledge of Psychology. This experience includes Lecturing A level Psychology for 20 years; working as a college counsellor, Child Adolescent and mental health service (CAMHS) and in private practice for ten years. He has successfully worked with a wide variety of clients and has a lot of experience working with adolescents and men.
He aims to listen to your concerns to allow you to feel safe enough to explore your difficulties. This could then help you to manage and change whatever has a hold on you, so you can move forward with your life.
India
Price
Chester
India is a fully qualified integrative therapist and member of the BACP and has a special interest in mindfulness-based techniques. She works with both the past and the present, helping clients to understand what may lead them to experience anxiety and other difficult feelings, and how to manage those in their day-to-day lives.
Her goal is for her clients to feel empowered, strong, healthy, and happy, and she is committed to fostering a genuine, honest, and impactful relationship with them so that they can truly reap the benefits of therapy. She has worked with children and adults, trauma, substance abuse, anxiety and more. She is fully insured and adheres to the BACP’s ethical framework for her work, which includes seeing a monthly supervisor.
India can offer face-to-face or online appointments, whichever the client finds most comfortable.
Eve
Pugh
Chester
Eve originally trained as a person-centred therapist and completed additional training in mindfulness. She will provide you with a safe, confidential space to open up about your thoughts and feelings and listen without judgement, walking beside you in your journey. Eve will work from a Person-Centred approach following the belief that the individual knows what is best for them - through talking together you are likely to discover that ‘you are’ and ‘can be’ the expert in your own life.
Eve will incorporate elements of CBT, solution focused skills and mindfulness (when appropriate) in order to meet your specific need. Eve is also trained in rewind therapy, which is used with clients experiencing PSTD.
Eve has supported clients experiencing: work related stress, low-high levels of anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, self-harm, thoughts of suicide, relationship issues, grief and loss, abuse and receiving medical diagnosis. Eve has a particular interest in inner child work.
Prior to training Eve worked in the NHS working with vulnerable children and young people to improve and maintain their mental and emotional needs.
Eve is able to offer sessions in the evenings.
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