Marianne Lownsborough
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About me
As a qualified integrative psychotherapist, I continue to do further training to draw on the work of global experts; working not only with your conscious thoughts but also your bodily responses, your imagination and all your senses. I help you to connect with your body and your emotions.
I work with unresolved trauma which can send you into despair, or cause you to live with anxiety or depression affecting your self-esteem and confidence. We explore together your invasive thoughts and flashbacks. Our journey together will look at unexplained bodily reactions, panic attacks, uncontrolled responses and anger. Together we look at your need to hide or when you go into a state of freeze. We can then work to re-address what was left unresolved.
What you use to cope each day may now be addictive and self-harming with no escape, affecting your relationship with yourself and others. During our time together we develop a range of healthy resources which are unique to you.
You may experience shame; the engulfing sense that something is fundamentally wrong with you. Together we explore how you are impacted by shame and how you can take the energy out of it, helping you to see yourself in new ways.
Your therapeutic journey will help you replace self-criticism and self-hatred with self-compassion and acceptance. I help you positively connect with your body instead of disconnecting from it or seeing your body as your enemy. Your increased self-confidence can help your decision-making and relationships with others.
Next Step: I invite you to contact me for an initial session at no cost or obligation, to explore what you are looking for and what I can offer.
Training, qualifications & experience
UKCP-accredited Relational Integrative Psychotherapist.
Further training includes:
Sensorimotor approach - In session with Pat Ogden, In-depth look at treating severe PTSD (2022/23) Nicabm - Impact of Trauma and the Brain working with Trauma. (2024) Affect of Trauma on the brain and body. (2024) Waking Dreams, Working with Imagination and patterning (2024)
Working creatively with anger (2018) Autism and Eating disorders (2018) Helping clients overcome patterns of worry and fear (2021) Conscious and embodied state-shifting practices (2022) Working with young people in distress (2022) Masculinity and the dilemma of vulnerability with as a male client. (2023) The Trauma of Racism (2024)
I am also qualified in Therapeutic playwork, and psychology and a Certificate in Further Education.
I have been seeing clients since 2018, before which I have been involved with young people and families with over 30 years of experience in in-community development in both inner city and rural areas. I also established and ran a playwork training company 'Playscape training delivering training across the Yorkshire and Humber region. In the 1990s I managed a team in a Neuropsychiatric hospital in Siret, Northern Romania.
Member organisations
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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
Therapies offered
Fees
£45.00 per session
Free initial in-person session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I consider commitment and continuity to be essential for our work together, with this in mind I will negotiate my fee for those who will struggle to pay my stated fee.
My sessions are for one hour. I prefer to work in person but will also work over the phone or on Zoom where necessary.
When I work
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As much as possible I agree a regular weekly timeslot with clients, however, this can be flexible if necessary and include some Thursdays.
Further information
I offer a free initial no obligation session to explore what you are looking for, what I can offer and if working together feels right for us.
See my website www.therapywithmaz.co.uk to find out more about how I work. I also offer a page for parents as I work with teenagers from 16 years of age.
I have had Dystonia in my eyes since 2007 affecting my ability to keep my eyes open so I do not rely on my sight but instead rely on my other senses and work with the body sensations imagery and the power of imagination and creativity. I have experience of working with clients with both Autism and ADHD but see each client very much as a unique individual.
