Melanie Ayers
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About me
I have been a full-time self-employed therapist in Banbury for more than twelve years and in that time I have treated more than eight-hundred people. I love what I do and feel daily gratitude to be given the chance to help and to make a difference.
I offer a safe space in which you can freely, fully and securely express and explore yourself. I offer the effective tools and techniques of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to build concrete strategies and find effective solutions. CBT for depression and anxiety is a solution-focussed action plan to get you feeling better, fast. Some of my clients chose to stay for longer periods to do deeper, more sensitive work; such as healing low self-esteem or understanding recurring relationship patterns.
I passionately celebrate diversity and can quickly build nurturing, respectful and trusting relationships and I warmly invite you to join me to talk. I am always humbled and honoured to witness my clients becoming more self-aware, more self-accepting and truer to themselves.
My ground-floor therapy room is suitable for clients with impaired mobility.
Training, qualifications & experience
BA (Hons) First
OCN Certificate Counselling Supervision (October 2015)
BACP Accreditation
Diploma Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Certificate Person Centred Counselling
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
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Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Counselling Supervision
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Additional information
£65 per hour - Individual
£78 per hour - Couples
When I work
Monday - Friday, 9am - 8pm
Further information
I believe that my success in helping people stems predominantly from my ability to feel (and convey) understanding and acceptance of the people who consult me. Because of my nature I am able to quickly build nurturing, respectful and trustful one to one relationships with people.
My counselling work is supported with a committed mindfulness practice, which in turn is supported with a comprehensive grounding in the Alexander Technique.
I passionately celebrate human diversity; diversity of personality, perspective, culture, gender, sexuality, spirituality. I have a deep and genuine liking for all people. Everyone is doing the very best with what they have and everyone wants to be liked, accepted, appreciated and understood. We are all a mixture of natural personality traits combined with learned habitual thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
