Counselling Services in Plymouth

I use a wide variety of counselling models and techniques, a number of which are listed below.

Person Centred Counselling puts you, the client at the heart of the counselling process and focuses on the counsellor supporting you to make decisions about your life. It is believed that given the right conditions, an individual can reach their full potential and become their true self.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a practical based approach to therapy which has become very well known as a treatment of choice within the NHS for symptoms of anxiety and depression. It looks at your automatic thought processes and aims to provide you with tools to change them. The aim is to enable you to think in an alternative way.

Mindfulness helps you to be more present and aware of what you may be thinking, feeling, and experiencing in the here and now.

Gestalt places emphasis on how increased awareness, understanding of the present and immediate thoughts, feelings and behaviour can bring about powerful change and new perspectives. This can be effective in helping you to change beliefs and fixed patterns of unresolved feelings.

Drawing and Talking is an attachment-based therapeutic intervention, allowing you to discover and communicate emotions through a non-directed technique, setting it apart from solution-focused and cognitive-based therapies and interventions.

Adults

Most people looking to start counselling have something in particular that’s causing them difficulties, whether it’s anxiety, stress, depression, relationship issues, or something else. For others, it can be a feeling of uncertainty.

Counselling can offer an invaluable outlet for processing difficult feelings, providing the space and support needed to work through complex emotions.

Together we can explore your troubles, enabling you to gain perspective and consider what might be stopping you from reaching your full potential.

I offer face to face, online and telephone counselling sessions during the day and evening, with some limited weekend availability.

Children and Young People

Counselling provides children and young people with the opportunity to open up, explore their thoughts, feelings and experiences in a safe environment. This can help to make sense of what’s going on and develop strategies for when things are difficult.

Having completed an Honors Degree in Child and Adolescent Mental Health and many more courses/CPD, I am able to offer counselling for a wide range of difficulties including anxiety, low mood, academic pressure, exam stress, emotionally based school avoidance, bullying, peer pressure, parental separation, bereavement and more.

EBSA - Emotionally based school avoidance is a term referring to reduced or non-attendance at school by a child or young person. Rather than the term ‘school refusal’, the term EBSA recognises that this avoidance has its root in emotional, mental health or wellbeing issues.

I offer face to face and online counselling sessions during the day and evening, with some limited weekend availability.

Adults

Children and Young People

Counselling Services

Vikki Watts Counselling

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