Helene Igwebuike Dip (Rel Couns) MBACP

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As an Emotionally Focused Therapy relationship counsellor, I help you heal relationship with self and partner by communicating in a new way that restores intimacy and personal well being.

Sometimes when it feels too late to heal the hurts or your relationship feels quite shaky, couple counselling can provide the much needed relationship support. You can recover or discover what is missing from your relationship and work towards creating an emotionally and physically fulfilling relationship for both of you.

I am of mixed heritage and moved to London from Denmark in 1997 for a postgraduate degree and stayed on to live and work as a Web Editor. I decided to retrain as a relationship counsellor after having personally experienced the benefits of couple counselling.

In my therapeutic practice, I use an integrative model, predominantly Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), an experiential and systemic approach that focuses on healing and strengthening emotional bonds, as well as Rogerian Person-Centred, Psychodynamic, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Gerald Egan's 'The Skilled Helper' models.

A couple counsellor provides a safe, supportive, warm and contained environment that fosters the emotional safety needed for both of you to:

• Make sense of what is going on inside you and in the relationship between you

• Begin to perceive each other differently and appreciate the mutual impact you have on each other

• Talk, listen, understand and express your deeper feelings and emotions to each other in a different way that draws you closer rather than pushes you further apart.

• Feel secure enough to risk asking for your needs to be met from a place of openness and vulnerability that allows your partner to hear and respond without feeling judged, angry, resentful, unappreciated, inadequate, incompetent, criticised or blamed

• Stand together and address your relationship issues in new ways that heal and strengthen your relationship bond.

Of course relationship counselling isn’t a magic cure and while the couple counsellor facilitates healing and change, it requires that you are both willing to change and committed to working on your relationship.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

Professional Memberships

• Member of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT)
• Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)

Counselling Qualifications

• Diploma in Relationship Counselling (York St John University)
• Certificate in Relationship Counselling (York St John University)
• Certificate in Counselling Skills (Mary Ward Centre)
• Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (ICEEFT)
• EFT Core Skills Advanced Training (ICEEFT)
• Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner Training (nlpNorth East)

Areas of counselling I deal with

• Abuse
• Affairs and Betrayals
• Couples Counselling
• Depression
• Family Issues
• Infertility
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Pre-nuptial Counselling
• Relationship Issues
• Separation and Divorce
• Sexual Issues
• Stress

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) for couples and individuals.

Therapies Offered

• Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies
  - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

• Psychoanalytical and Psychodynamic
  - Psychodynamic Therapy

• Humanistic Therapies
  - Person-Centred Counselling

• Other Therapies
  - Integrative

Fees

A session lasts an hour and costs £50.

If you would like to find out more about couple counselling or getting support for personal and relationship issues, please call Helene on 0776 2333 644 or email me to learn more. You are under absolutely no obligation to book an appointment.

Further Information

Counselling 4 Couples venues:

• The MIC Centre, 81-103 Euston Street, Euston, London, NW1 2EZ

• Winchmore Hill Friends Meeting House, 59 Church Hill, Winchmore Hill, Enfield London, N21 1LE

• Online, email or telephone counselling available

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