Satish Parmar MNCS (Accred)

About me

One time or another we are all faced with some kind of distress in our lives. So many variables affect us to the ever-changing environment we live in:

Relationships
Partners
Friends
Occupation
Health
Disease
Old age
Family
Reproduction
Bereavement
Trauma

In dealing with various different challenges in our daily lives, we sometimes get stuck in solving a particular issue or issues. At that time we seem to become baffled and frustrated, not being able to decide what path to take.

We might lose the ability to trust our instinctive thoughts or feelings, un-enabling us to make appropriate decisions in accordance with our direct perceptions and desires.

Sometimes it becomes too difficult to resolve an issue on our own. It helps to share our difficulties with another person and as the saying goes 'two heads are better than one'.

Providing the ideal secure environment for you, to come and share your difficulties with a professional. Creating the right therapeutic conditions, where you can disclose and explore your difficulties. By effective listening, non-judgemental acceptance and being authentic, I would assist you in exploring your thinking processes and assessing your possible plans of action.

I have worked with hundreds of clients as a qualified counselling psychotherapist for over 8 years and have assisted people with various kinds of issues, from assisting in developing self-esteem to someone having attempted suicide.

Experienced in:

• Abuse
• Addictions
• Adoption
• Anger Management
• Anxiety
• Bereavements
• Bullying
• Career Counselling
• Depression
• Debt Management
• Disabilities
• Domestic Violence
• Eating Disorders
• Employment
• HIV/AIDS
• Infertility
• Learning Disabilities
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Loss & Grief
• Personality Disorders
• Postnatal Depression
• Relationship Issues
• Sexuality - Gender Identity
• Self Harm
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Terminal Illness
• Termination/Abortion/Miscarriage
• Trauma
• Work Related Issues

In any of the presenting issues listed above, I can assist you in:

1) exploring the current difficulties it represents and its possible consequences on the environment or others.
2) analysing the root cause of these difficulties.
3) looking at possible plan of action to alleviate or reduce, the symptoms and distresses of the presenting issue/s.

Addiction

I have also trained and worked as an Addiction Counsellor. Addiction can happen to anyone regardless of age, character, religion, education or social and employment status. No one purposely turns to addiction but it happens due to various reasons. It could happen due to traumas, distress or past suppression of feelings or emotions. Or it could be genetically linked to our parentage.

Addiction can develop to simple things such as television programmes, food, tea, coffee, sex, chocolates etc. Or it could be hours of gaming online to substance abuse. Life-threatening addictions could include glue-sniffing, alcohol, cigarettes to misuse of drugs such as cannabis, amphetamines, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin or crack.