Stephanie Gooding

Stephanie is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist with a 20 years of experience in psychological therapies across independent, NHS and voluntary settings. She offers an honest and authentic presence with knowledge and techniques grounded in evidence-based research, with respect for the choices of each different client about the approach they feel is useful for them. Stephanie is trained in multicultural counselling and is keen to work across cultures with sensitivity and is LGBTQ+ affirmative.

Stephanie works with a wide range of psychological issues including adjustment to major life events; trauma and post-traumatic stress (PTSD); recovery from abuse; issues of self worth and confidence; relationship difficulties; stress and insomnia; depression and grief work; anxiety including obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), social anxiety, panic disorder, phobias, health anxiety and generalised anxiety.

Stephanie works with clients to develop a tailored plan for therapy. She draws on a wide knowledge base including: cognitive and meta-cognitive approaches, mindfulness, DBT-informed therapy, eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), compassion focused therapy, narrative therapy and person centred therapy. Stephanie is skilled in short-term work and will encourage clients to undertake practical tasks between sessions where she believes this will be beneficial.

Stephanie also offers counselling supervision to professionals (one-to-one or groups) and training in counselling skills, applied psychology, and mindfulness.