Malcolm Couldridge, MA, Dip.Psych. MBACP

Harpenden Hertfordshire AL5
07736 939713 / 07736 939713 Click here to Email me

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I am an experienced integrative counsellor and therapist in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. I provide a safe, confidential and flexible space where you can work in your own time and at your own pace to resolve personal issues, review coping strategies, change unhelpful patterns of behaviour, increase self-awareness, improve self esteem and learn to live and relate more healthily and more creatively.

Therapeutic work involves listening, understanding, supporting you to explore your feelings and thoughts, reflect on your experience, and unravel thoughts and feelings that can feel stuck, confusing, in a muddle, distressing or disturbing. It can also be a place for looking at immediate issues in a new light.

The way we work will depend on the issues you want to talk about. A key element to this work will be the therapeutic relationship that grows between us. For this to happen successfully, it will be important to building a strong sense that whatever you want to talk about will be received and responded to sensitively.

Speaking about difficult thoughts, feelings and experiences is not always easy and I work to ensure that you feel able to talk freely and openly, work towards a better, deeper understanding and acceptance of who you are, and find new and more effective ways of responding to personal situations and circumstances that may be unrewarding, unsatisfying and perhaps a cause of distress.

At present, I offer one-to-one face-to-face sessions and, in certain circumstances, telephone counselling. Issues I work with include depression, anxiety, stress, bereavement, problems in relationship and anger management.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

Relevant qualifications:

• MA and Post-Graduate Diploma in Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (2003 - The Minster Centre).
• Certificate in Telephone Counselling (1992, Childline).
• PTLLS -teaching qualification (2010).

Experience:

• Psychotherapist and counsellor (current).
• EAP counsellor (current).
• Trainer (current).
• City & Guilds Assessor: National Advocacy Qualification (current).
• Mental Health Advocacy (1999-2010).
• Counsellor: London-based Mental Health Counselling Service (2001-08).
• Social care including service management (1980-2006).
• Parentlink Trainer and Group Coordinator (1994-1998).
• Childline Telephone Counsellor (1992-94).

Areas of counselling I deal with

• Abuse
• Addiction(s)
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Bullying
• Depression
• Disabilities
• Domestic Violence
• Learning Difficulties
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Relationship Issues
• Self Harm
• Sexual Issues
• Sexuality
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Trauma
• Work Related Issues

Other areas of counselling I deal with

The above list is not complete. Please call for further information or if you have a specific request or concern.

Therapies Offered

• Other Therapies
  - Integrative

Fees

£40

Further Information

My approach to therapy and counselling has its roots in a rich variety of approaches to human development and relationship and works from the standpoint that no one approach can describe the complex nature of who we are and who we can become.

My interest in psychotherapy arises from my own journey of self-discovery, which has included individual and group therapy, over 30 years of experience working with a wide range of different people and settings, and ongoing training and reading.

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