Andrew Richardson

94 Malford Grove South Woodford London E18 2DQ View map
020 8257 0429 www.feelbetter-counselling-eastlondon.com Click here to Email me

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Successful and experienced Counsellor/Psychotherapist/Hypnotherapist - proven to help you quickly (typically in 4 sessions or less). For depressions, anger management, addictions, anxiety, abuse, low self esteem, relationship issues, eating disorders, low self confidence, stress, panic disorder, OCD and personality disorders.

My approach is proactive when needed, optimistic and commonsense. There is hard evidence that it works.

I will not charge for our first session if you find it of no value or choose not to continue to see me.

Evolved from the PROVEN and EFFECTIVE Human Givens approach, I practice in South Woodford, East London - less than 30 mins from the City.
"Andrew's recovery/improvement rate is 88%, a match for the very best of national data (of all therapists nationwide for which there is data)." Bill Andrews, director of the Human Givens Practice Research network.

You will find a number of extended testimonials at the foot of this page. There are many more on my website - which I encourage you to visit. It is extensive and informative and you will not be disappointed.

The source of your emotional distress will normally be identified quickly and then a range of techniques and insights will be used for their quick relief. These techniques come from many sources but are used appropriately as Human Givens is based on the very latest scientific understandings

Uniquely amongst counsellors, I ask clients to evaluate their experience and the changes they have noticed over the previous week - at every session. So I know that more than 85% of those I see improve or completely recover – most of them within 4 sessions.

You should know also that my background is not typical for counsellors. I am 62 years old now and had a successful business career before training in the Human Givens - which was almost ten years ago now.

Importantly, this means that I have never spent any time in the state funded caring profession or been exposed to any kind of counselling before my Human Givens training. This freshness and independence is I believe one reason why I seem to be so effective.

If you are depressed, you will find a new way of seeing your situation and have new tools, therapeutic experiences and empowerment to lift you out.
1) We will find ways to reduce emotional arousal and so improve your sleeping and dreaming. You will notice the beneficial effects of this surprisingly quickly.
2) By agreeing and rehearsing small practical steps to get your essential emotional needs met, you will find that Confidence in your Resources and Capacity for happiness will return.
3) By a careful examination of how you respond to situations and how you view your resources, you will also gain greater flexibility to handle whatever life events bring for you in the future.

If you are anxious or suffering from trauma (abuse, loss, accidents), there will be new understandings for you and both practical and psychological help.
1) The power of debilitating emotional memories will be removed – by use of the Rewind. This will normally be successful in just one session. The results are invariably liberating and life changing.
2) You will learn how to relax – including simple methods tailored to your unique circumstances and experiences.
3) With energy and confidence renewed, you can (assisted by visualisations) redirect your efforts towards goals that will meet your emotional needs.

If you are addicted (drugs, gambling, food etc.) or enduring OCD type behaviours, there will be new understandings, tools and renewed hope.
1) Armed with new Scientific Understanding as to why you act in ways that you know are not in your long-term interest, you will acquire a vital tool to monitor yourself and so change.
2) We will build motivation – both in terms of the benefits of change and in terms of the costs of no change.
3) With practical advice and detailed visualisations, you will find that new habitual responses replace the old in a matter of weeks.
4) Not only will you lose weight or stop smoking (or resolve any other damaging behaviours) but Your life will be Rebalanced. You will find that you regain control – and are empowered in all kinds of ways to find new pleasures.

Working from the Human Givens perspective and training, virtually all distress can be understood and relieved - by uncovering and healing resources that have been damaged, overwhelmed or long hidden and by working productively and creatively toward getting essential emotional needs better met.

Want to find out more about Human Givens? Visit my site or read the articles listed below.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

HG.Dip.P - the post graduate practitioner qualification in the Human Givens
MHGI - member of the Human Givens Institute
I also have the Advanced Post-Graduate Studies Certificate in Human Givens.
GQHP - on the General Hypnotherapy Register

I have been practising as a Human Givens counsellor for six years now and as the approach is still new (dating from the late 1990s), I am one of the more experienced HG therapists.

Accreditation is with the Human Givens Institute, abide by the HGI code of ethics and am subject to HGI disciplinary and complaints procedures.
I am also a member of the General Hypnotherapy Register.

My Specialist Areas
Anxieties including around professional performance, depressions, PTSD, obsessive behaviours including eating disorders, loss of self confidence, addictions, anger and needs for meaning and redirection. Also stress reduction, the alleviation of physical symptoms of stress (e.g. chronic pain, IBS) and the resolution of personal and work problems.

Working with young people (from my role as a schools counsellor in a diverse London comprehensive).

Areas of counselling I deal with

Fees

My normal session fee is £70 - for around an hour. I do not clock watch and am flexible over the length of each session.
Concessions are always available - never will I refuse to see anyone on the basis of cost.
I will travel with prior arrangement. I hold CRB clearance.

And remember, the first session is free if you find that there is no benefit for you and you choose not to rebook a second session.

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Selected Testimonials
"By seeing Andrew, I learnt to make time to relax and how to relax. Andrew helped me to find my interior balance, and made me understand that I MUST HAVE MY NEEDS MET! I started to see life in a different way and to search for my passions. He gave me lots of explanations to what I was going through so I felt that I had someone that understands me and that I was not going mad. Thank you so much for all you did for me Andrew! I and my family owe you BIG TIME!"
Eva (not her real name), a young mother from Romania living in Walthamstow - with OCD and depression

"The change has been so refreshing & just seeing how I’ve achieved these changes inspires me to attempt more in life. I have you to thank for that. One of the most valuable lessons you taught me is that you have to take action in life to achieve things & to facilitate change. It's a very hard lesson to learn when you're in a pit of despair but if you can summon the courage to take action then that's the medicine you need to move forward & the reward is more than worth the effort.
Miss our chats - you helped me so much in so many ways. I think I’ve only truly began to appreciate that fully now on reflection."
Barbara, a young women working in London with a chronic and ever deepening depression

"I have been doing a new type of work (driving a mobile exhibition and road show for a diabetes charity) which, while it has its own stresses, they are not the same as those associated with my normal work. Your guidance has helped my wife and I deal better with the depression – and each other – and we are progressing nicely, I think. I go to the Depression Alliance meetings still but I am increasingly taking a contrary view to the majority of those there who say “once a depressive always a depressive”. I don’t want to believe that and I am improved for thinking in the positive way that you have advocated. I am much livelier, more social and have been throwing myself in some long outstanding DIY projects. I am sleeping well most nights too. Overall the word would be energised. Much of this is, I feel, down to our sessions for which I thank you again. Perhaps I can stay in touch as things continue to progress."
Harold recently retired is from the Essex/Suffolk border with a severe depression

"I am a counsellor, trained in Integrative Psychosynthesis – an approach that has helped me enormously. I have spent some years in personal therapy, and no longer feel the need for on-going support. I have been to see Andrew a handful of times - seeking help in moments of crisis. My interest was partly professional, partly personal. I had heard about the Human Givens approach and wanted to know more. I experienced a seemingly simple combination of hypnotherapy, storytelling, and conversation which calmed me, helped me take my needs more seriously, helped me draw on my resources to that end, and gave me new insights into my situation.”
Debbie (not her real name) from Leytonstone, with life and family problems

"Andrew relaxed me and used the rewind technique to quickly remove the feelings of trauma which had burdened me for so many years. He then went on to help me see ways in which I could take back control of my future and improve my relationships. I went out of that first session feeling that a weight had been lifted from my shoulders, and able to imagine a bright future again. I can't recommend Andrew highly enough."
Kay (not her real name), a working Mum from Edmonton North London

"I was getting to the end of my tether, and so were my work colleagues - not knowing how to deal with my unexpected bursts of tears, general mood of moroseness, and fears over well just so much.
They were getting fed up? Heck. I was getting furious with myself again. Somehow I just KNEW it was my entire fault really, I was just being pathetic, I should yell at myself to get it all together, I should just try HARDER.
In the end it was my manager who told me that since I'd tried legal drugs, the talking cure, and exercise she might have a new option. Well goodness, I was ready to try anything
The setting was a quiet area, a family home, and a softly spoken Andrew Richardson. Yes I DID arrive near to sniveling but it all soon wore off. I even share a medical issue - if that is the correct phrase - with Andrew but we didn't spend much time on that as I was, and still am, sure that MS is the LEAST of my worries.
By attending my sessions with Andrew I found out that he considered that I have been through a trauma. This was such a different way to look at that time as a twelve year old when I just hadn't been able to cope with the bad luck of being bullied and trying to commit suicide, in the middle of my mother dying from Alzheimer's disease.
Okay. I now see how I might not have been unreasonable in feeling awful a lot of the time because behaviour now tripped me back into that bullied child. And this is what Andrew got me to work on, with his help.
I was taught a way to view past memories and so got rid of the emotion of them. As part of the visualization I regained one of my past German Shepherdesses who I used to sit with my arm around, so if I seem to be poised awkwardly it's because my left arm is busy cuddling a pooch.
I also found words coming out of my mouth that I hadn't planned on saying but seemed to make sense to Andrew. I filled in questionnaires that we reviewed in later weeks and he gave me proper charts to look at, (and keep), to help me see my progress. I also have a promise that if I feel it's all becoming too much again, all I have to do is telephone and he will be ready, willing and able to help - a bit like the cavalry of human givens.

Yes it was worthwhile. Yes I use Andrew's visualization technique with stressful stuff that stresses me out at work. Yes, I feel happy that I have his back-up. And yes, I still have my ghostly bitch to cuddle when my live one is otherwise engaged."
Gail, from Walthamstow came very unhappy and feeling out of control and what turned out to be a still active trauma from her childhood

"I have tried my best to maintain the ideas you have put forward to me i.e. 7/11 which works every time and remaining in calm surroundings and definitely not taking on tasks which I feel will get me anxious. I drove on the A12 this weekend for the first time in about four months and it felt great. So at this present moment in time I feel like my old self again."
Patricia (not her real name) from Wanstead had endured a health related trauma while driving which had resulted in a panic attack and a phobic fear of driving

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