Bethea Robertson PGDip MBACP

About me

I work individually with children of all ages, young people and adults.

I offer a private, confidential space and a genuine relationship where you will be accepted and respected.

My counselling training is in pluralism, which means that I have learned a range of therapeutic skills from which I can draw. I like to create a therapy for each client depending on what best suits the individual. My clients do not have to fit into a specific theory or way of doing therapy. Through working in this way I offer freedom for my clients to go where they want to go in whichever way they choose and I will be alongside, responding in ways that I feel to be appropriate at the time. This allows me to draw on the many aspects of theory and therapeutic approaches that I find useful.

As a counsellor, it is important to me that I am alongside someone; attuned to them, and that the person feels that they are fully seen and heard by me.

For me, the relationship with my client holds the highest value in bringing about change and when the client experiences the presence and attentiveness of the therapist, the healing potential that I believe is possible within this relationship is great.

“Sometimes it is only through such an act of being seen and heard completely that we can begin to know how we really think and feel.” Lott, (2000)

This is illustrated by a young male client who gave me this feedback “Counselling has helped me a lot. It helps because you’re having your voice heard by someone and by yourself.”