Simon Edwards

I offer counselling for a wide range of issues including depression, anxiety, bereavement, relationship problems and  issues stemming from other significant events in people's lives.  I  work from rooms in Blue Frog Therapies at 38 Bootham

I have had over thirty years experience of working to support people through mental health crises, with substance abuse issues and learning disabilities. 

I know how daunting it is to choose a counsellor so feel free to arrange an initial informal meeting.   This may help you to decide whether it would benefit you to begin therapy and for us to work together.

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Please note that there are two flights of stairs to my rooms.

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My sessions last for 60 minutes and my rates start at £45 an hour with concessions available. First session at £10.

Please contact by email to discuss payment details for online or telephone counselling. 

Before beginning online or telephone counselling I always prefer to meet for an initial face to face session if at all possible.

• Why choose counselling?

We go to counselling because of the way we feel. 
Often it feels like we can be overwhelmed by our emotions, whether sadness or anger, fear, guilt, shame or distress. Sometimes people say that everything seems so confusing, that emotions have stopped them being able to make choices, stopped them speaking or being with others, even stopped them thinking.

• How do we do something about this?

Research has shown that an effective way to do something about the complexities that we find ourselves in is to explore them by talking about them. By doing this they become less confusing, we can see where these feelings come from then see how best to manage them.

• A counsellor's perspective.

Talking to close friends and family can help a great deal. However, most find that a different, new and impartial perspective can offer another way of making sense of those emotions that seem to dominate.

• How do we explore?

Counselling cannot make these feelings disappear but does allow an opportunity to revisit them, to make a different sense than the one that caused so much distress at the beginning. Perhaps it caused so much distress because at the time it seemed to be the only sense to make.

• Relationships.

Many of these emotions that trouble us seem to stem from our habitual way of perceiving ourselves with others, the feelings that arise when we are in relationship to other people .  Examining the way we feel about ourselves in relation to other people is an important first step in exploring those emotions that brought us to counselling in the first place. Exploring these in partnership with another, a counsellor, can offer an opportunity to revisit events, the background or the history that led to the feelings.

What clients have said:

'I would just like to say I found the experience of counselling with Simon very helpful and productive. I felt at ease with him and felt able to say anything without embarrassment. He was patient and relaxed and enabled me to examine thoughts and feelings without any hindrance.'

'The whole experience was helpful. It helped me to look at issues from the past especially concerning my childhood and marriage and realise that I don’t need to let them bring me down. I came away every week feeling good and looking forward to the following week. I think that the whole experience has helped me to understand the positive benefits I bring to many people’s lives and that I’m a pretty decent bloke!'

'I found the whole experience positive and beneficial. It was juxtaposed against a situation in my personal life that was unravelling and it helped me to work through that with the result that I have come out the other end feeling very positive.'