Phillip Mitchell

Phillip Mitchell Upper Basinghall Street Leeds LS1 5HR View map
tel: 07780 946568 web: www.counsellingwithphil.co.uk Click here to Email me

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I offer one-to-one private counselling to individuals aged 18 and over.

I am a qualified Person Centred counsellor and psychotherapist. I am a registered and accredited member of the Brtish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. This means my private practice has been deemed sufficiently ethical and professional.

I have experience of working with clients on issues such as stress, depression, anxiety, low self esteem, bereavement, abuse, relationship issues/difficulties, anger, abuse, addictions, eating disorders, sexuality issues and more.

The Person Centred approach believes that as human beings we will always move towards fulfilment and do the best for ourselves, regardless of the situations we sometimes find ourselves in.

Person Centred counselling and psychotherapy focuses on communicating the core conditions of empathy, acceptance and genuineness. By doing this, clients are given what is considered to be the appropriate environment to explore their thoughts and feelings, move towards fulfilment and become all that they are capable of being.

Unlike many other counselling approaches, Person Centred counselling and psychotherapy does not rely on tools and techniques. It focuses on building a warm, professional and therapeutic relationship in which you take the lead and the counsellor facilitates.

As a Person Centred counsellor and psychotherapist I believe that you are the expert in your own internal world and that you are the only person who knows how you truly feel.

I am very honest and genuine in the way I work. I do not provide answers or give quick fixes. If there are any answers I believe they lie within you. I will only work with what you decide to bring to counselling.

In essence, the counselling is your journey, you are the driver and I am the passenger.

If you would like further details please feel free to contact me.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

2008
The Bridge College of Clinical Hypnotherapy
Certificate in Clinical Hypnotherapy

2007 to 2008
University of Birmingham
Introductory Practitioner's Course in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

2004 to 2006
University of Warwick
Diploma in Person Centred Counselling and Psychotherapy

2003
Thomas Danby College, Leeds
Level 2 certificate in Further Counselling Skills and Studies

2001
Thomas Danby College, Leeds
Introductory Certificate in Basic Counselling Skills

I have also attended various counselling training days and delivered various workshops on issues such as managing boundaries and working ethically. I have provided counselling for organisations such as Cruse Bereavement Care, Terrence Higgins Trust, Freshwinds Birmingham, Coventry City Council, Retail Trust, ITV and Relate.

Before moving back to Leeds I worked in the midlands in a private therapy centre and ran the centre's counselling service.