Glynis Greening

Good relationships underpin our happiness and emotional well-being. I have over 25 year’s experience, helping to turn a poor relationship into one which can sustain and support both of you... for partners, friends and siblings, or just for you.

We all need to feel appreciated, supported, cared for, respected and even loved, by at least one other person. If we do not have this then we end up feeling anxious and depressed. Sometimes we may look for all these things in a counsellor but much better that you try to create it for yourself in your close relationship.  I try to help you to understand and improve your present relationship so you won't need to come back to this site in the future.

I am a counsellor and psychotherapist with over 25 years professional graduate and post-graduate training and clinical experience of, emotional and mental health problems. I've worked in an NHS psychotherapy department for 5 years and private practice for 20 years. I also have a lot of experience with Relationship difficulties; I worked with couples in Relate for over 25 years and did a further 3 years postgraduate training at the internationally respected 'Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships' in London.

I can see you face-to-face or on zoom or a combination of both. I charge £50 for 70 mins for couples and £40 for 60 mins for individuals. Do call or text me on  07724 719174. Or email me at glynisgreening.com and we can arrange an initial, FREE, 20 minute video or phone talk when you can decide whether you'd like to go forward.  The enquiries booking site is unreliable so please contact me directly.

My approach to therapy

For Individuals:

Whatever emotional distress has brought you here my role is both to support you when you need it and help you forward when you're ready. We'll make sense of your present difficulties in the context of your life as a whole, and your relationships, because everything joins up and impacts on everything else. We'll explore how you see yourself and how you make sense of your experiences and your relationships; what sort of family did you grow up in, what sort of messages did you receive as you grew - both explicit ones and assumptions and implications that were never made explicit? Have you experienced traumas in your life, and how were they handled by those around you? We will be looking for patterns in your history, and patterns in how you felt and feel and how you make sense of things, and we'll use them to think about your present experiences and problems. We will be making links and finding meaning.

The essence of my approach is that everything about you - even that seemingly self-defeating and difficult part of you that you think you don't want - is there for a good reason; together we have to work out what the good reason is and only then can we even begin to think about changing. You can not change anything without first understanding why it's there. Sometimes understanding 'why' is all we need to make it feel 'right' and 'acceptable' and take away the feelings of shame.... and begin to love yourself.

But there's another thing to think about... you are not alone: It's important to remember that we are social animals, constantly affecting and affected by others; so we also need to understand the emotional peculiarities of those around you as we seek to understand you. We need to know what belongs to you and what belongs to those around you.... Is it really your feeling or is someone trying to show you what they feel. Is someone getting under your skin, getting on your nerves, winding you up?... and how easily can they succeed? ...and how does that work? So, it's as important to understand your 'significant others', and your relationship with them, as it is to understand you.


For Couples:

You may have found this site because you find your relationship has hit a crisis or you feel anxious that it may be disintegrating as rows and disagreements chip away at the closeness you once had. Together we can explore the anxieties and conflicts AND address the underlying structure of your relationship - how do you two fit together, how do you experience each other?  We need to solve the present problem but we also need to put your relationship on much firmer ground. My aim is to help you understand and know each other much better. Understanding is the only route to tolerance and acceptance and real intimacy. One hard lesson we all have to learn about relationships is that our partner can not be the perfect mate we perhaps all hope for - not all of the time anyway - but by understanding yourself and your partner better and by improving your communication you can create a realistically secure, accepting and loving environment in which you and your children can feel safe and flourish.

Why choose me?
In the section below are details of my training and experience.... please read it, it's an important factor to think about when you're choosing who to take your problem to. My academic training in respected institutions like the Tavistock in London, my self-awareness through rigorous and lengthy analysis and my broad clinical experience of both mental health problems and relationship difficulties, give me a solid knowledge base to enable me to understand you, your problems and your relationships more deeply and clearly, and to grasp the underlying significance of things more quickly, which helps you and me to work towards a solid and longer lasting solution to your difficulties.

Text or ring me on 07724 719174 or email me glynisgreening@hotmail.com.

I offer an initial, twenty minute talk, either on the phone or through zoom.  For this there is no charge. Please contact me directly with your details - phone number and/or email. Contact details are often missed or lost otherwise.

    Thereafter we can either meet in person or through zoom, for both I charge £50 for 70 minutes for a couple and £40 for 60 minutes for an individual.

For more information I have a web site - www.glynisgreening.com.

I charge £50 for 70 minutes for couples and £40 for 60 minutes for individuals. 

email - glynisgreening@hotmail.com

ring or text 07724 719174

for more information see my website: www.glynisgreening.com

How long will it take?

Depending on what you hope to learn we can begin to make sense of your problem in the first session or two but it will take at least 6 weeks for us to really grasp the complexities of 'you' and your partner and uncover the dynamics of your relationship. It'll take longer to work through these discoveries, depending on your personal circumstances and problems... something we can talk through.

A full written report is available for an extra cost after 6 sessions.