Mary Wilkinson

15 Chelsea Green Linslade Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire LU7 2PT View map
01525 851961 www.marywilkinson.bacp.co.uk Click here to Email me

Profile

I offer a unique integration of counselling, psychotherapy and hypnotherapy approaches adaptable to the many different kinds of people who can benefit from these therapies. With over 20 years experience behind me in both short and long term therapy, I have worked with a wide range of problems and I will tailor the therapy to suit you.

As an Integrative therapist my main approaches in counselling and psychotherapy are person-centred and psychodynamic. I also integrate body-oriented psychotherapy approaches and cognitive methods.

I will offer hypnotherapy for some types of problems provided you are comfortable with this. Hypnotherapy can quickly get to the root of the problem. It draws on powerful inner resources and facilitates positive change from deep within the subconscious mind.

I will gently enable you to connect to feelings and emotions which you may have ignored or repressed - allowing them to be safely expressed and released, understood and accepted. This aspect of therapy contributes powerfully to the process of healing and recovery.

I will also work with your cognitive processes, looking at your habitual thoughts and deep seated beliefs...how these may be affecting your perceptions, choices and behaviours...how they can be changed to your benefit.

I honour the healing power of the therapeutic relationship through depth of listening, a non-judgemental empathic approach and appropriate creative challenge to enable both self-acceptance and change.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

I am a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist and registered with UKRCP.

After graduating in French in 1974, I pursued a deeper and lifelong interest in psychological therapies, well-being and personal growth. I attended many different courses and workshops including meditation, Psychosynthesis, creative self-expression and the development of the intuition but my main learning was from a long participation and experiential training in psychotherapy and personal growth 1975-87 focussing especially on intensive Body-Oriented therapy (Bioenergetics) - individual and groupwork.

My formal training was: A three-year postgraduate level training in counselling, Cambridge University (extra-mural) 1988-91; a further two-term advanced counselling course with particular focus on short-term techniques 1991-2; later, a one-year postgraduate level course in the Supervision of Counselling, Cambridge University (extra-mural) 1993-4.

In 1995-6 I trained with the Atkinson-Ball College of Hypnotherapy and Hypnohealing and I am registered with UKCHO.

I have wide experience in short and long term therapy, including six and a half years as an NHS primary care counsellor, 1992-98 and work for Employee Assistance Programmes. I have been a consultant counselling supervisor to both trainee counsellors and qualified accredited counsellors since 1994.

Areas of counselling I deal with

Other areas of counselling I deal with

* menopause * thyroid disorders *chronic fatigue *disability
* hearing loss *sight loss * Insomnia * Stress Induced Illness
* Irritable Bowel Syndrome * Psychosomatic Ailments
*Mind-Body Healing * Pain Management
* Weight Control * Smoking Cessation
* Habits * Fears * Panic Attacks * Exam Nerves
*Flying Phobia *Dental Phobia *Lifts Phobia
* Personal Development * Performance Enhancement
* Relaxation and Stress Management