Sandy Marwick

Welcome and thank you for looking at my counselling profile.

Perhaps you are considering counselling because you are struggling with difficult feelings and emotions. Perhaps you feel your relationship is struggling either an intimate one or a close friendship?

People come to counselling for lots of different reasons. Sometimes we experience a sense of being alone even thouigh we are surrounded by people, or struggling generally with our relationships. Sometimes we feel we cannot cope, or just need someone to talk to.

I am a trained counsellor for Adults, Couples, and Children and Young People.

I welcome people from all backgrounds, cultures, genders and sexual orientation and those who are exploring their identities.

I am am trained as an integrative therapist which means I draw from different approaches, like person centred, compassion focussed, relational, and this can be very effective in helping us to make positive changes in our lives.

I also use psychodynamic approach and this is useful when we look at the attachments we have made throughout our lives and finding our resilience that helps make us able to cope in difficult times.

Talking things through with someone who understands and accepts us can be enormously helpful in finding our way through confused feelings and emotions.

I have experience and success of working in with people who are experiencing emotional pain and trauma. Trauma can be sudden or it can be caused because of lack of nurture or abuse. Whatever the reason, it is most helpful to talk this through rather than keep it locked away. I have extensive experience of working with adopters, adoptees, and children or adults who have been in the care system.

My own life experiences and personal journey has helped me to develop the insight and awareness which I believe are crucial in an effective counsellor. I consider myself to be  approachable and I understand how difficult it can be to face up to and deal with difficult areas of our lives, and talk about ourselves which can feel frightening or uncomfortable.

I believe that it is only through being heard, being truly accepted, being valued, that positive and long term changes can happen. However, within this, integrating strategies such as, cognitive behavioural techniques such as goal setting or journaling, can be helpful in providing a practical aspect to our work together, especially if you are experiencing anxiety. I also use creative techniques at times.

In couples work it is enormously useful to have the space to talk as often the pressures on relationships are enormous. The strains can stop us from understanding what’s really going on for us underneath. I try and help couples use this space to develop new knowledge and understanding. This can help with compassion, and build new way of thinking and being.

If you feel I could be of help, you can contact me by phone or email to discuss anything further. (details below) or see my website for further information www.sandymarwicktherapy,com

In Contemporary Trauma Practice we work with the parts of ourselves that have been fragmented through traumatic experiences. This is partly using the IFS work but not entirely as it is more creative. The parts are to be explored and can communicate through our sensory perceptions, our bodies, especially when we find ourselves in a state of overwhelm. I work holistically with the whole client including the somatic memory and the fears and the patterns the client finds themselves in.

All my individual sessions are 50 minutes long. Couples and parent work are 60 minute sessions.

£55 individual session

£55 Young People Sessions

£ 75 Couple Counselling

£ 75 Working with Parents/Carers

£ 60 per hour for supervision £ 90 for 1.5 hours

I am open to discussion if you require a concession -please let me know and we may be able to come to a mutual agreement.