JANET JOOSTEN (Existential therapist, CBT therapist, Integ cllr, life coach)

62 High Street
Stony Stratford
Milton Keynes
Bedforshire
MK11 1AQ
View map		 Belmore Centre
Lower Road
Stoke Mandeville
Aylesbury
Buckinghamshire
HP21 9DR
View map		 JANET JOOSTEN (Existential therapist, CBT therapist, Integ cllr, life coach)
01525 270422 / 0781 577 0903
www.omikrons.co.uk
Click here to Email me

Profile

I am a registered Psychotherapist, qualified Cognitve Behavioural Therapist , accredited Integrative counsellor, Existential analyst and life coach in training. I have four clinics:
Milton Keynes: Situated inthe market town of Stony Stratford,
Aylesbury: Belmore Centre situated in Stoke Mandeville on A4010.
Aylesbury Rickfords Hill,closeto town centre and just 5 minutes walk from the railway station.  
Soulbury: a quiet back drop for therapy in a small Buckinghamshire village.

Services offered
Existential psychotherapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CBT/ Coaching
Life Coaching

My Approach
Although my core orientation is Existential, I am also a qualified Integrative counsellor. This means that I am able to include aspects of therapy from a number of theoretical orientations: Humanistic, Solutions Focused,  Cognitve Behavioural Therapy, CBT coaching,  life coaching Time Limited Existential Therapy and Experiential Therapy and dream analysis from an Existential perspective.

Existential Psychotherapy.
The Existential/Integrative approach to Psychotherapy is a detailed exploration of the meaning of life and aims at enhancing your self knowledge. Psychotherapy can provide a safe place for you to explore your thoughts, feelings and emotions in a non-judgmental environment. My aim is to lead you through a journey of self discovery and understanding whilst clarifying your life circumstances and where you want to be in your life. I will encourage you to explore the dilemma's, conflicts, contradictions and issues in your life. The focus is to help you think things through and gain new ideas and perspectives and enable you to evaluate your options and see a way forward. Alongside the issues and concerns you bring to therapy, we will explore the areas you want to change, where would you like to be in your life and what prevents you from getting there. To understand our thoughts and feelings often brings a sense of relief and the opportunity to deal with them more effectively. Existential psychotherapy is a joint venture that provides the opportunity to think together collaboratively about your situatation.

Cognitve Behavioural Therapy
Cognitve Behavioural Therapy helps you see how your thoughts and behaviour are related to way the way you feel. For example if you are feeling depressed you tend to have negative thoughts (such as I am a failure in all things and no one likes me). As a result of this you stop going out and meeting people or avoid doing things you normally find pleasurable. This can make you feel even more badly about yourself, leading to more negative thoughts. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy can help you to participate in the activites you once enjoyed. It can also help you notice the way you think about yourself and how this affects your behaviour. By examining the way you are thinking, it can put you in the position to consider you assumptions and beliefs, and look at whether there are alternative ways of viewing things. Cognitve Behavioural Therapy can also help to change your behaviour. For example if your anxious about traveling on a train, by bus or by car you might avoid traveling. Although this prevents the anxiety of traveling, it can lead to more avoidance, and perhaps finding it difficult to go out altogether. Cognitve Behavioural Therapy will help you face up to your fear, and give you tips on how to cope better thus increasing your confidence about traveling. Cognitive therapy is particularly good for people who tell themselves that they shouldnt feel certain emotions,
decide that everything that goes wrong is their fault, use mind reading to decide other people think badly of them, notice only the things that go wrong in life and ignore the things that go right, and take all the blame for mistakes and give credit for all the successes to other people.
To find out more about Cognitve Behavioural Therapy phone or email me. Leaflets and details on request.

Integrative counselling.
Because we all think, feel and react in different ways, Integrative counselling can bring about change in your life and produce a unique therapy that is adapted to suit your needs. As an Integrative counsellor I can use the insights and techniques from Person centred, Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioural and Existential therapy to help you bring about some of the changes you want in your life. In the first session we will look at the kind of therapy that suits you best. For example if you are someone who needs to deal with the influence of past trauma such as childhood abuse, sexual assault, and neglect you may choose to talk about your past, exploring memories and dreams, drawing on psychodynamic techniques. However if you are dealing with a trauma that is recent, or it is still happening (i.e. domestic violence, break-up of relationship) you may want explore ways of using a person centred cognitive approach to therapy. If you are experiencing panic attacks, low mood or want to overcome a phobia you may want to examine your thoughts, feelings and behaviour and explore ways of overcoming your fears by using cognitive behavioural techniques. Or you may want to explore who you are, who you want to be, by looking at your thoughts, feelings, fantasies, dreams. Acknowledging your potential as well as recognising limitations by using an Existential Approach to therapy.

Finally you may want to work reducing your levels of anger, stress and improve self-esteem. This can be achieved by talking as well as behavioural experiments and role play, drawing on cognitive behaviour techniques. It may be that anxiety is dominating your life cognitive behavioural therapy is helpful to enable to look at your anxiety in a stuctured and practical way. Anxiety manifiests itself often exhibits it self in the following features:

Social Anxiety
Social anxiety is a condition in which you experience high levels of anxiety about being criticised or judged in a negative way both others which leads you to having high levels of fear about you’re your ability to cope in a social situation. There is no magic solution or quick fix method that cures your social anxiety, but CBT techniques and encouragement  can help you devise and implement strategies in a graded step for step way which will help you grow in confidence in your ability to deal with social situations.

Panic attacks.
The best way to describe a panic attack is an intense short period of anxiety with out any obvious explanation such as an external threat or medical reason. Panic attack symptoms can include breathlessness, faintness, nausea, chest pains, irregular heart beat, and feeling terrified. They are not life threatening but often the first time you experience one you think you are about to die or that you are experiencing a heart attack. The main trigger in panic attacks is often the fear that you are going to have a panic attacks. CBT offers ways of identifying the thinking patterns that are reinforcing this belief and causing you to panic. I will assist you in retraining your self to cope with the irrational fear of panicking, so that you can begin to take control of the situation and enable you to increase your ability to cope with panic attacks if they happen and more importantly lessen your fears of them.

CBT coaching
CBT coaching ing is an integration of cognitive behavioural  therapy and coaching techniques.  CBT coaching techniques involve step for step strategies that helps you close the gap between where you are now and hat you want to achieve. It offers the chance to think through your options and decide on what you want to try out to help you achieve your goals. The techniques are practical and straightforward and unlike counselling and psychotherapy they do not include an analysis of your past. CBT coaching is solution and goal orientated and not problems focussed,

Life Coaching
Coaching supports general life situations, improving our performance and creating desirable results.Coaching would be desirable in the following situations:
Finding ways to reduce stress in our lives, or free up more time.
Building a life work balnce that fulfils us.
Improving our ability to relate to others
Improving an awreness of ourselfs
Improving our self disapline and motivation
Improving our health and wellbeing routines.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

Qualifications/Training.
BA (Hons) Psych
Dip. Psych
Post Graduate Diploma Pychotherapy and Counselling (Regents College London);
Adv.Dip. Existential Psychotherapy (Regents College London);
PgD Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Ongoing training; life coaching Member IIC
MBACP Accred; UKRC Reg; UKCP Reg. Member SEA ( Society for Existential Analysis).
Member BPS ( British Psychological Society.).
Member BABCP
Code of ethics:
I work within the UKCP (United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy) and BACP (British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists) code of ethics. I am closely bound, and accountale to the codes of ethics and practice. Copies an be obtained on request. I undertake regular supervision for my work subject to the code of ethics.

Experience:
A BA Honours degree in Psychology was followed by a seven year training as a women centred counselllor working with women survivors of rape sexual assault and sexual abuse. . In 2001 I decided to embark on a professional training at Regent's College in London. reading Integrative Psychotherapy at postgraduate/MA level graduating in 2004. A year later I trained as an Existential psychotherapist at Regent's College graduating in 2007. I am currently reading Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at MSc level. My first three years as a counsellor were spent working with women survivors of domestic violence. In addition to this I worked within the prison setting as a prison counsellor. During the two years of my Advanced Diploma I worked for MIND. The work was varied and included working with client's with mental health issues, anxiety, depression, bereavement, male and female domestic violence and sexual abuse. I have worked with men and women who were experiencing infertility problems at a private clinic. For the past two years I have worked as a school counsellor with young people aged 13-16 and young people aged 16-25 in the community. I also work as an affillate counsellor for a number of organizations providing work place counselling and have a private practise in Soulbury, Milton Keynes.

Areas of counselling I deal with

Other areas of counselling I deal with

CBT therapy
Life coaching

Therapies Offered

Fees

Aylesbury, Soulbury and Milton Keynes:

£45 per session. I can usually make an appointment/initial consultation within 5 working days.

Concessions £28-£35. Unwaged and those who are retired and on low income (Soulbury practice and Rickford Hill centre only)

Coaching £30 per session.

Further Information

Evening appointments available.

 I also have a practice in the village of Soulbury LU7 OBT. This provides a quite back drop to therapy.

Member Organisation(s)

Registered / Accredited Counsellor or Psychotherapist

Published Articles

Location Maps

View Contact Details