Alastair Smedley UKCP Accredited. MBACP, UKAGP,GPTI

About me

I am a Clinical Gestalt Psychotherapist working for a number of years in a primary care setting and Employee Assistance Programmes, i.e. Staff counselling with numerous organisations and companies. My experience is broad and varied having worked with many ares including personality disorders/traits, Grief and loss, anxiety and depression and many areas of victims of sexual/physical and emotional abuse.

I am interested in the needs and wants of the client and seeking to work in a creative and genuine relationship.

My Philosophy is about making whole that which has become fractured, further enhanced by my experience as a Gestalt Psychotherapist working with body process and Trauma.

I have worked with many areas of client issues including Trauma, bereavement,grief and loss, attachment, bullying, sexual identity, relationships, sexual,psychological and physical abuse,
anxiety and depression.

I work both from home in Beverley and work as a Senior Psychotherapist for Focus Counselling in the Hull and East Riding area seeing clients from a broad range of organisations.

I also offer Psychotherapy in private practice working from both Beverley and Hull.

I also offer supervision to organisations and individuals who use counselling as a career or those who use Counselling skills.

I Supervise staff at a North Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire service who support female and males who have suffered sexual and domestic abuse.