Estelle Linney Counselling & Ecotherapy PGDip. MBACP

About me

Finding and choosing a counsellor who you feel you could connect with can be daunting and yet one of the best choices in life you can make.

Together we begin to build a trusting therapeutic relationship that is both empowering and hopeful. This relationship helps you to navigate through a challenging moment in your life. Together we can explore what you feel ready and safe to share – whether these are current, buried or almost forgotten experiences. I will be at your side to listen and will always endeavor to relate to your unique circumstances and way of being; facilitative of your change and growth process.

I am a qualified clinical counsellor, primarily practicing from a Person-Centred Approach to therapy, grounded on the values of empathic understanding, acceptance and congruence. I am currently studying for my MA in Clinical Counselling, looking into the effects of dementia on family adult carers.

I have extensive experience of working within both the public and private sector, more recently practicing within the voluntary sector providing counselling for adult carers.

I strongly believe in working at your pace, whilst always providing a trusting and safe environment for you to find ways to explore your feelings and to understanding your emotions that are causing you concern.

My personal and academic interest and skills are working with adults who are caring for family or friends diagnosed with dementia.

I work with people who are experiencing feelings of loss and bereavement, stress, anxiety, depression, low-mood, post-traumatic stress, bullying, abuse, health issues, work related problems, self-harm and suicidal thoughts.

If you feel we could work together, I will help you explore and process your difficult thoughts and feelings that you are experiencing and will support you to work with them and through them.

Through exploring, discovering and accepting your emotions, you can find a way to move forward towards a better and more fulfilled and meaningful life.

I am an Member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) and work within their ethical framework. I hold a current enhanced DBS disclosure and have full insurance to practice.