Jo Wood
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About me
Carving out space to reflect and consider the ways in which life is happening to you or has happened to you and how you have coped is important if you want to process and grow through challenges. I help people to understand themselves better, regain autonomy and a feeling of control in their lives. By understanding and processing events that have happened or situations you've found yourself in, it is possible to move forward in life with understanding, compassion and awareness of your own needs. From there on, often people are able to make conscious decisions about how they want to live their lives, create positive change and move towards a more satisfying life. I can offer you practical strategies that will create positive change.
So much of how we feel about ourselves is based on what's happened to us, this in turn affects our personal and professional relationships, even our career choices. I help people to change things about their lives if they want to and understand why they do the things they do.
In addition to talking therapy I offer EMDR therapy. It's a specific therapy that can help with Anxiety, phobias, OCD, PTSD and CPTSD as well as Big T trauma such as a one off incident like a road traffic accident and little t traumas such as prolonged stressful and traumatic experiences. I enjoy helping people move beyond what's happened to them and this is one way that many of my clients have been helped. I think the great thing about EMDR is that we can often do a lot of work in a only a few sessions.
Whether you're coming to therapy with big things you'd like to work through or a few smaller things on a shorter term basis, together we'll find a way through.
Couples Counselling and Conscious Uncoupling: I believe a relationship is the container where people come together willing to be deeply and vulnerably aware of their past hurts, self advocating and supportive wholeheartedly of their partner. Only then can the necessary components of the relationship- security and love, grow and develop over time. A healthy relationship dynamic develops when each partner feels safe, respected, valued and able to be themselves.
When people freely choose to be together, having worked to understand their own imperfections and foibles and how they got there, they either become more accepting of their partner's imperfections or they recognise when it is time to end the relationship. Couples can learn the art of connection but they must be willing to work on their own wounds or these will show up in the relationship and create barriers or become destructive influences.
To have a healthy relationship partners must be willing to invest time and energy to collaborate, uphold their own boundaries, listen carefully and work together on deep communication as it is this that breeds true intimacy and a long lasting connection. It takes self awareness, resilience, a willingness to weather the storms of life and a commitment to supporting each other.
Couples often come to counselling as a last resort or many opt to break up and never really understand what went wrong, finding themselves holding on to past hurts which stay with them only to find them re- emerge in new relationships. Repeating the same patterns over and over.
Coming to couples counselling shows a desire to understand yourself, your partner and the dynamics of your relationship. Regardless of whether you choose to stay together or not. I can provide the space for couples to explore their thoughts and feelings as Individuals as well as equal members of the relationship.
Counselling can offer an opportunity for clarity and clear and effective communication. This can provide enough insight and understanding to discover and explore what the future might look like either together or apart.
It is my aim to facilitate a space where partners feel safe, heard and supported so that they can positively move forward, agree to disagree or amicably separate whilst working together in order to navigate the future.
Ethics: As an Accredited Psychotherapists all my work sits within a framework of ethics set out by the BACP so you can be assured of the standards and principles that I uphold in my work.
I am especially experienced with Neuro Divergence, addictive behaviours, harmful behaviour, co-dependency, control, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, helplessness, self-loathing, feeling stuck in life, low self-esteem, stress and difficulty committing to life and relationships.
I offer a free of charge chat on the phone initially, there's no obligation to begin therapy, it's an opportunity to get a sense of what it might be like to have therapy with me. Feel welcome to get in touch.
Email me for further details: counsellingwithjowood@gmail.com
Website: dialogueslife.com
Training, qualifications & experience
EMDR Practitioner Training
Post Graduate Certificate in Relational Clinical Supervision
BACP Accreditation
Certificate in Couples Counselling
Humanistic Counsellor (Transactional Analysis)
I have been privately offering psychotherapeutic counselling for over 15 years to Individuals, couples and groups from the business, creative, charity and public sectors.
What ever you've been through, It is possible to create a life that's worth living. The past need not impact on your present and determine your future.
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£70.00 - £140.00
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
I offer a free of charge, no obligation initial conversation on the phone for us to get a sense of how we might work together.
Session fees:
Counselling and Psychotherapy 1:1 - £70 per 50 minute
Couples counselling1:1 - £70 per 60 minute session, 1:2 - £140 per 60 minute session
EMDR sessions are either £120 per 90 minutes or £80 per 60 minute session
When I work
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Further information
I am currently offering 1:1 sessions online or in person, groups are in person and online, please ask for further information.
Further information can be found on my website dialogueslife.com or you can email me counsellingwithjowood@gmail.com
