Alys Nightingale -very experienced, BACP Accredited Counsellor / Psychotherapist
Email meAbout me
A very warm Welcome to you!
Do you find yourself thinking the same things over and over again and can’t find the off button for thinking?
Do you feel a need to make sense of what is happening in your life right now?
Would it be helpful to talk about what's troubling you, in a safe and supportive atmosphere?
Do you want to find ways to feel better about yourself and to move forward?
You are not alone - reach out if you can, I promise you will be met with warmth, compassion and a real connective relationship, which in itself brings healing.
I work with all presenting problems, and in addition I specialise in anxiety and depression. I offer Mindful counselling, which can help you see your life differently, change unhelpful thoughts and patterns & experience more choice and inner freedom.
I have a lot of experience working with stress and anxiety, understanding what has created it, and developed tools to create emotional resilience, not only to manage this, but to transform it. Together we will cultivate the emotional resources needed to restore balance, purpose and vitality in your life, relationships, work and hopes for your future.
I will offer you a safe space to take a fresh look at your life and to talk freely and openly about your thoughts, feelings and concerns in a way that is rarely possible in our daily life. I will support you in making sense of your life in a way that leads to a renewed sense of hope and lasting change.
Counselling helps you gain greater insight and understanding into your thoughts, feelings and actions, this process enables you to have greater freedom to make the choices you want in life. This work can be incredibly empowering, inspiring personal growth and change, enabling you to make the most of your life and cope better with life's inevitable challenges. The process offers a chance to gain more understanding of ourselves, thus taking back more control in our lives.
Through the work that we do, you will learn to recognise the thoughts and patterns which are limiting you, gain tools and resources to change these, turning negatives into positives and entering into a rich, more loving authentic relationship with yourself and others with a lot more awareness; awareness gives us choice, and choice brings freedom. I will help you become more aware of how you think, feel and react to conditions, which seem outside your control. Through this process we learn to be kind, open and accepting of what is actually happening, become more aware and skilled with our process, understanding what has created it, and learn to transform the anxiety into awareness, therefore gaining more choice about how we respond in life.
I build on Clients strengths, getting to the core of the issue quickly. Clients report that their therapy effectively addresses their concerns and issues, whilst gaining greater self-awareness and a clear understanding of themselves and their situations, and the ability to make real positive and lasting changes in all areas of their lives.
I would say that I have an ability to creatively unlock people’s potential and empower clients to move through their blocks with a mixture of tools and techniques. So, If you are ready to create lasting change, then please feel free to call me.
Investing in yourself is the biggest investment you can make.
I am a qualified Mindfulness based stress reduction Teacher, and will be running another MBSR 8 week course and workshops soon. - Mindfulness based stress reduction)
The MBSR 8-week course will help you find ways of living life with less stress, help you cope better and improve your sense of well being and quality of life. The aim of the course is to bring more awareness and acceptance into everyday life by establishing a daily mindfulness practice; to deepen understanding of the way we think, feel and react to stress and to understand and practice mindful responses to stress. The course is very practical and participatory; over the weeks we systematically work to cultivate the skill necessary to live a life with more ease, joy and present moment awareness.
Training, qualifications & experience
Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
Mindfulness Counselling
Mindfulness-based stress reduction Teacher
Counselling supervisor
Yin yoga mindfulness teacher
Meditation Teacher
Shakti dance facilitator
Bereavement Counselling
Grief and Loss Counselling
Spiritual Counselling
Diploma in Hypnotherapy
Diploma In Life Coaching
NLP practitioner
Psych-K facilitator
EFT (Emotional freedom technique) practitioner
Matrix Reimprinting Practitioner
Reiki Master
Bodywork
Access Bars Practitioner
Access bars facilitator
Diploma in Stress relief
Colour Mirrors Practitioner
Montessori Teacher
Nursery Nurse
In addition to the above qualifications I have studied modules at University on:
Inner child healing
Gestalt therapy
Transactional Analysis
Psycho dynamics
Working with Rage and Anger
Emotional release work
Trans-personal psychology
Psychology
Sociology
Drama therapy
Group work
I am a qualified Mindfulness based stress reduction Teacher, and will be running MBSR 8 week course and workshops soon ( Mindfulness based stress reduction) (For dates and more information, please see my website - to be added soon)
MBSR is a structured 8 week group course teaching mindfulness meditation as an effective and dependable counter-balance to the stresses of life.It will help you find ways of living life with less stress, help you cope better, improve your sense of well being and quality of life.
We will focus on developing life skills (rather than providing a ‘quick fix’) thereby promoting a greater awareness of ourselves, others and the world around us, as well as a greater capacity to manage stress and improve attention. The course is very practical and participatory; over the weeks we systematically work to cultivate the skill necessary to live a life with more ease, joy and present moment awareness.
When you are mindful, you are more keenly aware of everything that is going on within and around you in this current moment, because you are not so preoccupied with your usual mental wrangling. The "space" that mindfulness opens up gives you the opportunity to observe the happenings of the world in a fresh light and to accept "what is" and leave it at that.
Without mindfulness, you may react mentally, emotionally and physically to life, and sometimes the consequences of those reactions are even more damaging that the events that brought them up in the first place!
This course is suitable for newcomers as well as experienced meditator. It is also extremely helpful for professionals, particularly health professionals, and anyone wishing to find ways of living a less stressful life.
Both the MBSR program and the facilitator create a safe, hospitable environment, as they partner with participants to form a deeply engaging space for learning and growth.
Reported benefits of attending the course include:
- A greater capacity for relaxation and calmness
- Less worry, anxiety and depression
- Enhanced emotional control, resourcefulness and resilience
- Improved self-confidence and creativity
- Better sleep quality
Areas of counselling I deal with
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Addiction(s)
- Affairs and betrayals
- Alcoholism
- Anger management
- Anorexia nervosa
- Anxiety
- Attachment disorder
- Bereavement
- Binge-eating disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Bulimia nervosa
- Bullying
- Cancer
- Career counselling
- Carer support
- Child related issues
- Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME
- Depression
- Disabilities
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emotional abuse
- Family issues
- Generalised anxiety disorder
- HIV/AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infertility
- Learning difficulties
- Low self-confidence
- Low self-esteem
- Miscarriage
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Panic attacks
- Passive aggressive behaviour
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Physical abuse
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Postnatal depression
- Pregnancy and birth
- Redundancy
- Relationship problems
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Separation and divorce
- Sex problems
- Sexual abuse
- Sexuality
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal thoughts
- Trauma
- Work-related stress
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Please leave me a message, and I will call you back ASAP as I am often in sessions therefore am unable to take the call.
Skype and telephone counselling sessions available in all of the UK (Nationwide) and worldwide.
Therapies offered
- Behavioural therapy
- Cognitive and behavioural therapies
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Cognitive therapy
- Couples counselling
- Existential therapy
- Gestalt therapy
Photos & videos
Upcoming events
Fees
Investment prices:
Face to face Counselling and Psychotherapy £60 for 1hr session
Skype and phone sessions £60 for 1 hour
I pride myself in getting to the core of the issue quickly
One of my specialist areas is in the field of mindfulness, this is particularly useful in managing stress and anxiety. Whatever you are currently experiencing, together we will find ways of working with it successfully.
(please see my website for more information on mindfulness).
For more information please visit my website: alysnightingale.com/
Skype and phone sessions available nationwide!
Further information
My area of expertise are stress, anxiety and depression, all areas of personal development, Mindfulness, relationships, patterning, inner child work, healing shame, grief and loss, emotional release work, co-dependency (working with the false self and healing this, thus allowing the true self to emerge).
Some of the issues I can help with:
* patterning (behaviour)
* Anxiety and depression
* Relationship issues
* Emotional trauma
* Ancestral patterning
* Abuse
* Times of conflict and change
* Family breakdown
* Lack of confidence and low self-esteem
* Personal development
* Clarity in life changing decisions
* Grief and loss, bereavement, separation, Pet loss. - All all types of loss.
Stress
Anger and Rage
Depression
Social Anxiety
Addictions
Fears & Phobias
Mental & Physical Abuse
Eating Disorders
Anxiety & Panic Attacks
Childhood abuse
Emotional Trauma
Grief & Loss
Family issues
Personal Development
I am a qualified Mindfulness based stress reduction Teacher, and will be running MBSR 8 week course soon ( Mindfulness based stress reduction)
Maps & Directions
Harrogate, HG1
Type of session
| Online counselling: | Yes |
| Telephone counselling: | Yes |
| Face to face counselling: | Yes |
| Home visits: | No |
Practical details
| Sign language: | No |
| Other languages: | None |
Accessibility
| Wheelchair access: | No |
Types of client
| Young people |
| Adults |
| Older adults |
| Employee Assistance Programme |
Skype details
Skype name
Alysglover
If you have skype installed you can select the link below to call Alys Nightingale -very experienced, BACP Accredited Counsellor / Psychotherapist.
To install skype click here