Ian Pittaway, BA (Hon.), PG Cert., PG Dip., Registered Member MBACP
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When life is difficult I offer that important safe, supportive space where you will be heard. Telling the story, being understood by an impartial, caring and non-judgemental person can be a healing experience in itself. Then our role together will be to discover and remove the blocks in your life and find what you need to grow.
I draw upon a range of therapeutic approaches, integrating them into a mix that is right for you, based upon a relationship of care and support. Insights may emerge by talking openly for the first time, or being heard in a new way with skilled questions to bring understanding. We will explore emotions and, since emotions are expressed in the body, it can be helpful to notice physical responses to problems.
I have a comfortable, dedicated therapy room where confidentiality is guaranteed. For those times when we need more than talk, or when talk is hard, I have a range of creative ways of working, including charts, photographs, postcards and music, and any suggestions of your own emerging from our discoveries.
Training, qualifications & experience
I have BA (Hon.), PG Cert., PG Dip., and am a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. I work with clients who have a wide range of difficulties, with a special interest in personal trauma, including post-traumatic stress, anxiety, depression (including postnatal depression) and bereavement / loss.
I also welcome clients with anxiety, low self-confidence or self-esteem, relationship issues (including affairs, betrayals, separation, divorce, family issues, infertility and its emotional fallout, and sexual problems), feeling sad, abuse (emotional, physical and sexual), anger management problems, identity issues, stress (including work-related stress), child-related issues and addictions.
There are articles for the general reader on my website, www.ianpittawaytherapy.uk. On making contact you are assured of a warm welcome.
Member organisations
Accredited register membership
Areas of counselling I deal with
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Addiction(s)
- ADHD
- Affairs and betrayals
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Anxiety
- Asperger's syndrome
- Attachment disorder
- Avoidant personality disorder
- Bereavement
- Borderline personality disorder
- Bullying
- Cancer
- Career
- Carer support
- Dependent personality disorder
- Depression
- Discrimination
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Emotional abuse
- Family issues
- Feeling sad
- Gambling
- Generalised anxiety disorder
- Histrionic personality disorder
- HIV/AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infertility
- Internet addiction
- Learning difficulties
- Loneliness
- Low self-confidence
- Low self-esteem
- Miscarriage
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Panic disorder
- Paranoia
- Paranoid personality disorder
- Passive aggressive behaviour
- Personality disorders
- Physical abuse
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Postnatal depression
- Redundancy
- Relationship problems
- Schizoid personality disorder
- Schizotypal personality disorder
- Self-harm
- Separation and divorce
- Sex addiction
- Sex problems
- Sexual abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress
- Suicidal thoughts
- Trauma
- Work-related stress
- Young carers
Therapies offered
Fees
£40 per session.
Further information
Contact me by phone on 07504 269 855 or email me. If I am unavailable by phone, please do leave a message. My aim is to respond to all enquiries within 24 hours.
Sessions take place in a confidential therapeutic setting in Stourbridge.
Maps & Directions
Stourbridge, DY8
Type of session
| Online counselling: | No |
| Telephone counselling: | No |
| Face to face counselling: | Yes |
Practical details
| Sign language: | No |
| Other languages: | None |
Accessibility
| Wheelchair access: | Unspecified |
My room is situated through 2 outside steps and 2 doors, 69cm wide at the narrowest point. If this causes a difficultly, I will assist.
Availability
I usually work weekday daytime but I try, as much as possible, to be available when clients are free, and therefore offer some evening and weekend appointments.
Types of client
| Adults |
| Older adults |
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