Hywel Probert

Name: Hywel Probert
Telephone: +447845288861
Price range: £70.00 per session

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BACP-registered Gestalt and IFS Therapist

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Birmingham B29 & London E1

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About me

Hi, I’m Hywel, and I offer online counselling and psychotherapy across the UK.

You might feel left out, unseen, isolated, neglected, or like you don’t fit in. Perhaps you feel a lot of anxiety, particularly around other people, making it difficult to connect with them. You may find it hard to really relax and often be caught in a state of either fight-or-flight or constant alertness, which has possibly led you to burnout. Inside you might be feeling helpless, hopeless, or numb, or dealing with shame and a harsh self-critic.

From the outside however, you might look as though you’re coping just fine. Because you’ve learned to appear as though things are OK, and the fact that your struggle is hidden can feel even lonelier. To cope, you may hide in physical or social addictions or distractions, or conceal parts of your real self from other people.

I work with adult clients who experience these kind of challenges. Together in therapy, we can explore issues such as:

Why relationships or social connections feel so difficult;
How perfectionism leads to self-criticism, low self-esteem and not feeling ‘enough’;
How it is when you feel you are constantly adapting to meet other people’s expectations.

My approach

I am a BACP-qualified Gestalt, Internal Family Systems (IFS) and integrative therapist. This means that in our sessions I offer a space of support and acceptance for you, and all your different parts. Through curiosity and self-compassion, I can help you to develop a better, gentler relationship with the sides of yourself that you struggle with - and which you may not always like – that can also lead to more authentic connections with other people.

I combine support with gentle challenge. Together we can explore upsetting thoughts, emotions and behaviours in a way that feels safe, to find out how they might actually be trying to protect you. This self-awareness is where genuine healing and lasting change can begin.

It is important to me and to my practice that I am both Covid-conscious and climate-conscious. I also explicitly recognise that people of colour, queer people, women, people with disabilities and neurodivergent people face systemic discrimination and stigma in our society, meaning that their experiences will differ from those who do not experience such stigma. I also recognise that class can be a huge factor in determining someone’s experience.

Taking the first step

Maybe right at this moment you’re not sure about therapy. You might be wondering if your problems are 'bad enough'; to bring to therapy, perhaps because you don’t feel you have a clear story, or because you were told that you were ‘oversensitive’ at some point.

I also know that it isn’t easy to find the right therapist. Therefore I offer a free 20-minute phone or video discovery call, as a no-obligation opportunity for you to tell me a bit about yourself and what brings you to therapy, and to ask the questions you have about how we might work together.

If you would like to book a discovery call, or have a question for me, then I would love to hear from you.

The first sessions

If you choose to go ahead with therapy with me, during the first session there will be space for you to tell me your story, before we begin to look more deeply at your experience during the next few sessions.

After five or six sessions, I like to review together how therapy is going – discussing both what has gone well and what has been more difficult, and then making adjustments so the sessions work better for you. I believe that it is also important during therapy for us to consider, gradually, how what happens in the therapy space might practically be applied in your day-to-day life.

How we will work together

Each therapy session lasts for 50 minutes, delivered online via secure video call.

People choose to have online therapy for many different reasons. For many clients it allows for much more flexibility: you can take the session from somewhere you feel completely comfortable, without having to worry about travel time or costs.

Training, qualifications & experience

I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and have the following qualifications:

Diploma in Gestalt Counselling from the Gestalt Centre, London (2021).
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Level 1 Training from the IFS Institute.
Certificate in Humanistic Integrative Counselling, CPPD, London.
MSc, Development Studies, Birkbeck.

I am also influenced by other approaches, including psychodynamic practices, Emotionally Focused Therapy, and the Neuroaffective Relational Model (NARM).