Jane Allighan
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About me
I’m a compassionate and curious gestalt psychotherapist, offering a safe, warm and grounded space, for us to collaboratively explore your experiences, so you can make sense of how life has been for you and how you might want to live going forwards.
Mental health is fluid, just like physical health and its balance or lack of, is a natural response to life, especially in these times of global upheaval and people choose to engage in therapy, for all sorts of different reasons:
It could be that things are feeling a little off-kilter and a dedicated space to check in and touch base with yourself, would be really useful at this time?
Or, does every day feel the same, like the film Groundhog Day, and you don't know how to break your pattern, in order to live more freely?
Or perhaps, there's a tension, between pleasing your family and friends and making yourself happy?
Or, it might be, that you hid parts of yourself when you were very young, in order to survive, and those parts are yearning not to be squashed anymore?
Or did something happen, that hurt you so much, that you just can’t go a day without feeling its pain and to sit down and talk about that pain, might feel a little less lonely and a whole lot lighter?
Or, of course, it could be something completely different…
Yet no matter what it is, together we can discover how things are for you, whilst cultivating and nourishing your own deeply innate wisdom and self-compassionate understanding. So, if you sense that we could work well together, you're very welcome to call me, to ask any questions that you may have about the therapy process and there's a photo of my practice rooms below, so you can see whether you'd feel comfortable there.
Training, qualifications & experience
I'm a fully qualified Gestalt Psychotherapist, registered with UKCP. Whilst working in the NHS, I trained academically and experientially to masters level, at Manchester Gestalt Center and Scarborough Counselling and Psychotherapy Training Institute. I engage in regular supervision and therapy, both of which are requirements of my profession and I hold an Enhanced DBS.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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The UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) is a leading professional body for the education, training and regulation of psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors. Its register is accredited by the government's Professional Standards Authority.
As part of its commitment to protect the public, it works to improve access to psychotherapy, to support and disseminate research, to improve standards and to respond effectively to complaints against its members.
UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Spiritual and existential issues.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£55.00 per session
Additional information
If you sense that I might be the right person to provide support to you at this particular time in your life, you’re very welcome to contact me for a chat, to see if you feel that you can work well with me and whether I feel that I can work well with you. Alternatively, please feel free to email me.
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