New Leaf Life Design Counselling

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New Leaf Life Design is a vibrant counselling service offering qualified and professional counsellors in Minehead, Glastonbury, Taunton, Yeovil, Wellington, Bridgwater and Wiveliscombe.

Our counselling service is rated by our clients, 87% said that they had found counselling Very Useful in helping with their problems and concerns. 92% rated counselling from New Leaf as Very Good

The counselling service at New Leaf is designed to give you:

• Focused, modern counselling from an experienced, qualified therapist
• Improved self-esteem and self-confidence leading to better personal and professional relationships
• Greater awareness of how to address your anger and stress as well as that of the people you work with
• Increased ability to understand your feelings and how to express them appropriately
• More power to manage situations in your home and work life
• Skills to help you cope with life's event
• Skills to help you with stress management

Counselling at New Leaf offers a supportive relationship in which you explore any issue at your own pace.  Importantly, you are accepted for who you are.  Counselling at New Leaf can help you see difficulties more objectively and express your feelings, helping you come to terms with new or past experiences.  It can be part of a growing process enabling you to change unwanted feelings. Many people see counselling as an opportunity to undertake personal development in a safe environment – it not necessary to have a “problem” to find counselling useful.

We are in demand for counselling to help people with relationship problems, bereavement issues and couple counselling. We can support you with a range of issues you may want to explore.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

Minehead Counsellor Juliet Edwardson

• MA Counselling Psychology, BSc Psychology (including Marriage and Family)
• MBACP Accredited
• UKRCP Registered Independent Counsellor
• Licensed Psychological Practitioner
• Adheres to the ethical guidelines of the BACP

Juliet has worked for many years in the counselling and psychology field both in this country and America. She provides counselling for New Leaf in West Somerset.  She describes her work as a rewarding experience.  Her initial training occurred in a counselling centre which specialised in helping those who had undergone various forms of abuse.

Wellington Counsellor Angela McCormack

• MBACP | UKCP Registered Psychotherapist
• Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy (UKCP & BACP Accredited)

Angela McCormack is a qualified counsellor and registered psychotherapist with over 12 years of experience working with clients on a wide range of issues including: depression, anxiety, stress, abuse, life-crisis, addiction, self-harming, eating disorders, sexuality, gender identity, grief, relationship problems, self-worth, anger, mental health issues, personal growth and life-direction.

Taunton Counsellors Jane Walker and Becky Wright
Jan Walker

• Diploma in Supervision – Bath Centre for Psychotherapy & Counselling (BCPC)
• Diploma in Humanistic & Integrative Psychcotherapy – Bath Centre for Psychotherapy & Counselling (BCPC)
• Theraputic Groupwork and Leadership – Loughborough University
• Foundation Course in Family Therapy – Accredited by The National Association for Family Therapy
• Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling – Somerset Psychodynamic Counselling Centre

With more than 17 years experience of working with families and supporting professional staff as a manager and consultant working for large Children’s Charities in Children Centres, Jan is also able to support and empower parents who are struggling to manage their children’s challenging behaviour. Jan can offer couple counselling to help with relationship issues.

Becky Wright

• Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling awarded by the University of Bristol
• MSc in Counselling Research awarded by the University of Bristol February
• Diploma in individual and group supervision – CASCADE 2008
• MBACP Senior Accredited Counsellor

Much of Becky Wright’s experience has grown from her work within the prison service. Involved in teaching assertiveness, drug, alcohol and stress management courses to inmates, she also delivered Post Traumatic Stress Counselling to Somerset Probation Service Offenders and serving military personal. Becky started New Leaf in 1992.

Kingston St Mary Counsellor Benjamin Ellis

• BSc (Hons) Psychology (first class), The Open University.
• Post Graduate Cert in Education, Bath University.
• Advanced Diploma in Psychosynthesis, Synthesis, Bristol.

Benjamin’s training goes by the name of Psychosynthesis which offers a psychological approach within a ‘spiritual’ context. Psychosynthesis draws on a range of techniques to suit the individual. The following, however, are particularly true of Psychosynthesis: it places value on the imagination, in order to help us contact and realise our inner strengths and resources; it emphasises the will and self-determination so that we can shape and direct our lives; it also stresses the importance of an appreciation of beauty, the harnessing of anger, the awakening of intuition and a right relation to pain.

Bridgwater Counsellor Lyn Willcox

• MBACP (Accred).
• UKRCP (Reg).
• P.G. Dip (Counselling)

Lyn’s aim is to assist you to see your life more clearly and to help you make choices and decisions. Lyn is also a counsellor at a college of further education, in addition to this she also works for two charities, the first is called SignHealth who offer counselling to Deaf clients through the use of British Sign Language, the second charity is The Long Boat Home.

Glastonbury Counsellor Stephanie Groves

• Certificate in Counselling at Openings in Bath
• BCPC Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy
• UKCP Registered Psychotherapist                     

Stephanie has over 20 years experience of working with individuals, couples and families. She has worked in the NHS and as a Senior Assessment Counsellor in a University.

She has led a variety of groups ranging from Assertiveness Training, to on-going long term Psychotherapy groups. She has a wide experience of working with a range of issues, including mental and physical illness, depression, eating disorders, anxiety, anger management, addiction and trauma. Stephanie can offer New Leaf clients counselling who are within easy reach of Wells, Glastonbury and Bristol.
Stephanie can offer couple counselling to help with relationship issues.

Wiveliscombe Counsellor Helena Trump

• Advanced Diploma in TA (Clinical application)
• Certificate in Advanced Professional Studies in TA (Bath Spa University)
• MBACP ITA

Helena Trump, is a Transactional Analytic (TA) Counsellor and Psychotherapist, who qualified in 2001 with an Advanced Diploma in Transactional Analysis (Clinical application).

Since that time she has worked in both the Public and Private sectors, with Individuals, Groups, Adolescents, and Couples. For six years she facilitated a Meditation Group, and from time to time a Womens Group. Her underlying interest has always been to help people to communicate effectively at all levels, and thus move on in their lives.

Yeovil Counsellor Sally Barmes

UKCP registered, MBACP

Sally Barmes is our Yeovil based counsellor. She is a registered psychotherapist and counsellor and has been working in this field since 1996.  She helps clients with issues such as depression and self-esteem, bereavement and loss, relationship difficulties with partners, parents and children, panic attacks, stress and anxiety, addiction and eating disorders, trauma, life changes.  She has some specialist knowledge of Asperger’s Syndrome. Having trained as an integrative body psychotherapist, she is also skilled at enabling clients to understand illness and physical pain (real and/or psychosomatic), and how breathing, posture, and movement can affect emotions and vice versa.

Sally uses a variety of methods when she works – listening and talking, dialogue work, visualisation and image-work.  She also incorporates tuition in relaxation and meditation.   Her empathy and intuition enable her to sensitively help each client explore and resolve issues in the way which suits them best personally.  She believes that many of our problems stem from long-term over-adaptation to our external world with not enough attention being paid to the our internal world.  That is, we have learned to be people-pleasers, or that we long to be liked or fear being disliked.  We may often do things that we do not truly want to, or we may feel driven by an inner judge or critic. Sally helps people to see through this complexity and feel a greater inner contentment.

Areas of counselling we deal with

• Abuse
• Affairs and Betrayals
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Cancer
• Couples Counselling
• Depression
• Eating Disorders
• Emotional Abuse
• Family Issues
• Generalised Anxiety
• Infertility
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Pre-nuptial Counselling
• Relationship Issues
• Self Harm
• Separation and Divorce
• Sexual Abuse
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Trauma
• Work Related Issues

Other areas of counselling we deal with

We do not offer counsellor placements sorry.

Therapies Offered

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

• Humanistic Therapies
  - Person-Centred Counselling
  - Psychosynthesis

Fees

£30 First session
£40 Ongoing sessions
£55 Couple counselling
£45 EAP Counselling

Further Information

New Leaf Counselling can offer clients private counselling in Bridgwater, Taunton, Wiveliscombe, Glastonbury, Yeovil, Minehead and Wellington. We have a strong sustainability policy meaning when you purchase counselling with New Leaf you are also supporting local wildlife initiatives. You can see all about our sustainability work here: http://www.newleaf.uk.com/sustainability/

Our clients have written some wonderful testimonials about having recieved counselling with New Leaf. Please have a read of them: http://www.newleaf.uk.com/client-comments-counselling/more-client-comments/

Here is just one testimonial

‘In just a few sessions you allowed me to laugh and cry. Most of all you listened and made some really fundamental links I had never made about myself before. I have done this for others many times, but no one had ever done this for me. In particular I found the work on boundaries and expectations really powerful. It has given me a new outlook about self management, both personally and professionally.”

• Supervision available (view supervision profile)

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