Tony Hardy MBACP, Registered Counsellor

About me

I offer one-to-one counselling sessions where I provide a warm, safe and nonjudgmental environment in which we can talk about whatever is troubling you. ​

I work integratively, pulling together techniques from various counselling modalities in a coherent fashion. The client is at the centre of everything I do: you know yourself far better than anyone else does. I invite you to explore yourself and you issues, and facilitate you coming to your own realisations and conclusions, at your own pace and depth. The client-counsellor relationship is the single most important aspect of all the work I do with my clients.

I have worked successfully with male and female clients aged from 18 to 75, presenting with depression, anxiety, stress, loss, low confidence and self-esteem, eating disorders, trauma, anger issues, and with survivors of domestic abuse and childhood sexual abuse.

Whilst counselling is first and foremost a talking therapy, I like to work creatively, with whiteboard and flip charts, and props such as buttons and mood cards. I bring creative writing and guided readings into our practice for clients who prefer to express themselves in this way.

Like many counsellors, I have been on my own journey from a dark place to where I am today. Counselling was fundamental to my own recovery. It allowed me to discover the real me, to believe in myself and my own abilities, and to realise my full potential. I draw upon my own experience where it is appropriate to my clients. I help them rediscover the strengths and resources that they have, that we all have, and I help them create a future for themselves where they too can shine.