Lal Hitchcock MA, Dip HIP
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A qualified psychotherapist and member of UKCP, I have been working in private practice since 2010. Located very near the centre of Bridport, I offer a free initial consultation, and a fifty minute hour thereafter.
Some reduced cost places are available for unwaged, retired or low income clients.
With a background in the creative arts, I am open to exploring concerns and issues in a variety of ways.
My particular fields of interest are anxiety, depression, pregnancy, family or relationship issues, self esteem, realising creative potential, fear of mortality, loss and bereavement, the after effects of boarding school.
Training, qualifications & experience
UMOT (The Unmaking of Them) training in working with Boarding School Survivors 2017-2018
Psychosocial group co-facilitation, for the British Red Cross, The Verne Immigration Removal Centre, Portland, May - December 2016
Peer Support facilitation, Yeovil, Somerset (Chard W.A.T.CH Project) 2016
Self Management co-facilitation, Yeovil Somerset (Somerset Partnership NHS in collaboration with the W.A.T.CH. Project, Chard, Somerset) 2016
MA and Diploma in Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy, BCPC (Bath Centre for Psychotherapy & Counselling) 2010 - 2015
Mental Health placements: Rowan Ward, Yeovil, Somerset, and Chard W.A.T.CH Project, Chard, Somerset 2012/13
Cruse Bereavement Volunteer, 2010 - 2015
Foundation Year, Bath Centre for Psychotherapy & Counselling 2002/03
BA Hons in Fine Art (sculpture and printmaking) University of Northumbria 1975 -1978
Foundation Course, Winchester School of Art 1974/75
Areas of counselling I deal with
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Addiction(s)
- Affairs and betrayals
- Alcoholism
- Anger management
- Anorexia nervosa
- Anxiety
- Attachment disorder
- Bereavement
- Binge-eating disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Bulimia nervosa
- Bullying
- Cancer
- Career
- Carer support
- Child related issues
- Childhood bereavement
- Childhood bullying
- Chronic fatigue syndrome/ME
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug abuse
- Eating disorders
- Emotional abuse
- Family issues
- Feeling sad
- Gambling
- Gender dysphoria
- Generalised anxiety disorder
- HIV/AIDS
- Hoarding
- Infertility
- Internet addiction
- Loneliness
- Low self-confidence
- Low self-esteem
- Miscarriage
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
- Panic disorder
- Passive aggressive behaviour
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Physical abuse
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Postnatal depression
- Pregnancy and birth
- Redundancy
- Relationship problems
- Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Separation and divorce
- Sex addiction
- Sex problems
- Sexual abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Suicidal thoughts
- Trauma
- Work-related stress
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Constipation and IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)
Gastrointestinal symptoms with no apparent physical cause
Loss of creativity/developing creative potential
Living with the after-effects of boarding school
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Fees
£35 per 50 minute session.
Concessions available
Further information
I am especially interested in different ways of coping with loss, in particular death and bereavement.
My research area has been the relationship between the gut and the psyche: how inexpressible or unacceptable thoughts, feelings and experiences are sometimes located in, and expressed by, our bodies. Bringing these feelings to consciousness and articulating them can help to alleviate painful or embarrassing gastric symptoms.
As an artist, I am also concerned with blocks to creativity - what stops us from initiating a project, or completing what we have so nearly finished? Does making fulfill a therapeutic need, and if so, is this undermined by the loneliness that is so often a prerequisite for creativity?
Maps & Directions
Bridport, DT6
Type of session
| Online counselling: | Yes |
| Telephone counselling: | Yes |
| Face to face counselling: | Yes |
Practical details
| Sign language: | No |
| Other languages: | None |
Accessibility
| Wheelchair access: | No |
consulting room & facilities are on the ground floor
Availability
Tuesdays: 8.30 - 5.30 incl, Wednesdays & Thursdays: 8.30 - 7.00 incl.
Types of client
| Adults |
| Older adults |
| Groups |
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