Carol Yates

How can Therapy with Carol Help you?

Counselling is a wonderful tool for helping anxiety, depression, trauma, psychological and emotional problems. At times life can feel difficult to cope with, anxiety creates pain and discomfort in the body and problems seem insurmountable. I know you can be helped and urge you take that first step in contacting me for a chat. I have over thirty years experience in helping people manage anxiety generally, health anxieties, depression, psychological and mental health problems.

My basic nature is empathic and sensitive, a person who gains from supporting people on their journey to becoming healthy and well. I have worked in England, Wales and New Zealand as a community Mental health nurse, Counsellor and Yoga Therapist. And I love working alongside people on their self healing journey. 

I work creatively using the following:

• Sand tray
• Interactive drawing therapy
• Imagework 
• Emotional Freedom Technique (commonly known as EFT).
• Somatic psychotherapy, especially good for Health Anxiety

Your first session

Attending your first session is a great achievement. You have made a decision and followed it through. Well done! The unknown is always nerve racking but I want to reassure you that I use a non-judgemental, empathic approach inline with the client centred humanistic counselling of my training. The key element of this first session is for you to feel safe and know that it is a confidential space in which to explore feelings and thoughts that cause you pain. There will be no pressure on you to talk about things that cause you discomfort, this is something you will decide yourself. I will be helping to sort out with you what areas you need help with, together we can begin to feel some hope of finding ways to resolve the pain you may be feeling.

My Background

For the past thirty years I have gained rich experience as a community psychiatric nurse and counsellor, helping people with psychological trauma associated issues, chronic anxiety and depression. Stress has a huge impact on body, mind and emotion and can be helped with counselling in addition to breathing techniques and gentle movement. I offer a rich and creative approach of client centred counselling, therapeutic yoga and Somatics.

AWARD:  I was awarded the annual Celebrating Excellence trophy 2017 for supporting staff of Leicestershire NHS trust in their health and well-being. This gave me an opportunity to reach out and support NHS mental health staff in community teams introducing self care strategies.

NEXT STEPS Please do get in contact with me for a free 30min phone call, you're welcome. I look forward to helping and supporting you.

I work in Torbay, Totnes and Brixham in Sth west Devon area face to face and also do telephone counselling.  

Please feel free to visit my videos and learn more about how to use breathing techniques to calm oneself and regulate emotions.

£50.00 per individual session 

10% discount for six sessions = £45.00/session

I offer a sliding scale option min. £40.00 ................ £50.00

I can help you apply for funding for: Domestic abuse; 

Free initial consultation of 30mins via telephone or face to face

Therapy/Counselling 1/1 based at Devon Clinic Paignton, Brixham Friends Centre, Brixham therapy room, Brixham  or via telephone.