Ryan Smith MBACP (Accred) UKRCP

Westacres Middleton St. George Darlington Durham DL2 1LJ View map	Rievaulx Avenue Billingham Co Durham TS23 2BP View map
01325 401391 / 07970 870331 Click here to Email me

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I offer a welcoming, confidential and safe environment, my approach is down to earth and is informed by personal life experience, training and professional development.

I am a grounded, intuitive and compassionate person, and I am respectful of you at all times and the issues you bring to our sessions together. It is always my intention that you feel able to share with me and feel listened to without judgement, whilst experiencing being valued and affirmed.

I am an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and psychotherapy (MBACP Accred), thus ensuring my practice is not only of a significantly high level of competency but both ethical and professional at all times.

Having previously worked with Cruse Bereavement Care and Mind (mental health issues), I have gained extensive experience in both these key areas.  This coupled with my counselling work in private practice has led me to successfully work with both male and female clients of all ages presenting with a diverse range of issues.  I am very adaptable and open to working in whatever way is appropriate to you as my client.

I have a strong belief in the power of therapeutic counselling to impact positively on my clients personal and professional life.  Counselling can be very empowering and I always feel a great sense of humility in witnessing clients gaining or rediscovering their own empowerment.

My counselling style is humanistic and person-centred, which reflects my belief that each person is a unique individual and that given the right conditions we each have the potential to grow and develop and move forward in our own unique way.  I believe the best way to help you do this is by offering a professional relationship in which you feel supported, valued and understood, thus enabling you to tap into your own strengths and resources.  This in turn can offer you new perspectives and further knowledge about who you really are as an individual.  Over a period of time, it can also release potential in you to discover greater balance, creativity and increased self-worth.  I am also very solution focused in my practice and can work with you to explore practical methods to cope with the every day stresses you face, for instance with relationships and situations at home or at work.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

BACP (Accred) UKRCP
Diploma in Counselling
Neuro Linguistic Programming (N.L.P) Practitioner
Emotional Freedom Technique (E.F.T) Practitioner
Certificate in Bereavement Counselling
C & G 7407 Teacher Training Certificate
Certificate in Life Coaching
Diploma in Hypnosis
Diploma in C.B.T (Due to complete in early 2012)

I have gained extensive experience in my work with Cruse Bereavement Care, Mind and in private practice.

I am advancing my current C.B.T skills by currently undertaking a Diploma in C.B.T.

Areas of counselling I deal with

• Abortion
• Abuse
• Addiction(s)
• Adoption Issues
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Bullying
• Cancer
• Career Counselling
• Child Related Issues
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME
• Dementia
• Depression
• Disabilities
• Domestic Violence
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Relationship Issues
• Self Harm
• Sexuality
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Trauma
• Work Related Issues

Therapies Offered

• Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies
• Humanistic Therapies
• Other Therapies
  - Integrative

Fees

My fees are:

Counselling, CBT, EFT, NLP and Life Coaching - £35 per session (50 mins to 1 hr), (£25 for the 1st session).

Dedicated Hypnotherapy - £45 per session (50 mins to 1 hr).

Stop Smoking session - £85 (1.5 hr to 2 hr)  Only one session required.  Free top up available if required within 3 months, although no clients have ever needed this.

Sessions are available days and evenings.

I am open to negotiation with my fees for students and people on benefits (evidence of student status or benefit entitlement required). 

Further Information

Appointments are available in Middleton.St.George (just 2 miles from Morton Park, Darlington) and Billingham (only 1 mile from the A19).  Both these places are easily accessible by car and have ample free onsite parking.  Both these locations allow me to reach clients right across the Durham Tees  Valley area.  In exceptional circumstances, home visits can be arranged.

If you would like to talk in a safe, pressure free environment which will allow you time to explore your choices in a non-judgemental and understanding manner then I would be happy to hear from you for an informal discussion about counselling, either by telephone or email.

'Taking the first step can be challenging, yet once taken can open many doors’

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