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Jo Holyoak 35 High St Lewes East Sussex BN7 2LU View map |
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tel: 01273 475520
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web: www.joholyoak.com Click here to Email me |
Profile
I work from premises in central Lewes providing Counselling, Integrative Psychotherapy and Creative Arts Psychotherapy for adults and children in a quiet and safe environment. I specialise in relationship breakdown, life changes, addiction, depression, issues related to anger, dream work, bereavement and loss, low self esteem, family issues, spirituality and childhood trauma. I also work long term with ‘Soul’ and ‘Transpersonal’ issues.
As Lewes is nestled in the South Downs I also offer Eco Therapy (walking in nature with mindfulness) as an alternative to indoor sessions.
I am available for Supervision sessions where I specialise in creative techniques with adults and imaginative play with children.
I am CRB checked for the East Sussex area.
I also run six week Creative Therapy Courses in Lewes and Brighton, see below for an outline of the course.
Training, Qualifications & Experience
Post Grad Dip: Integrative Arts Psychotherapist
Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education, London (IATE)
Post Grad Cert: Therapeutic and Educational application of the Arts IATE
Dip: Group Facilitation
Richmond upon Themes College, Twickenham
Cert: Counselling, Personal Development & Groupwork
City University, London
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Relationship breakdown, life changes, dream work, bereavement and loss,family issues and spirituality. I also work long term with ‘Soul’ and ‘Transpersonal’ issues.
Fees
An initial one hour assessment session is £20
My fees range in cost from £35 - £45 per one hour session according to income.
(Organisations are charged at £50 per session)
Courses are £60
Further Information
6 week courses in Lewes and Brighton
A Creative Journey
Aims
This 6 week self development group provides an opportunity to explore creativity in relation to our life, thoughts and feelings. The central theme will be to work towards uncovering some of the decisions we may have made for ourselves in childhood regarding relationships, aspirations, our hopes and fears. Usually this unconscious ‘script’ message still influences our lives even though we are locked into an unwanted outcome!
Theoretical Background
For most of us we are unable to make life work in the way which we would like to. As a group we will be exploring the idea of ‘Script belief’ from the central theoretical concept in Transactional Analysis (TA). This concept hypothesizes that in childhood we create a’ script outcome’ that informs our patterns of behaviour as adults. As we grow older theses patterns have usually passed their sell by date yet we still respond and react in familiar ways when stressful situations arise, and especially when difference occurs with loved ones. In childhood these patterns worked for us either because it meant literally our survival within the family system, or more often then not, our family of origin required us to conform to certain thoughts and beliefs, rejecting the idea of difference.
Content: The Creative Journey
Using a variety of creative techniques such as painting, creative writing, imagination and visualization, sculpting and collage A ‘Creative Journey’ will begin. Applying theoretical concepts from Transactional Analysis, Person Centred and Gestalt Theory alongside the artwork actively integrates cognitive understanding with practical experience. As we gently delve into unconscious aspects of ourselves to find insight and reveal our individual ‘script decisions’ a deeper level of understanding comes to light. We can then explore how to make new and purposeful decisions for ourselves to become more of who we really are!
