Who Can I Help?
I can help patients with any of the following problems:
- Stress and Anxiety
- Grief and Bereavement
- Weight Loss Coaching
- Depression
- Relationship Unhappiness/Enhancement
- Infertility
- Pregnancy Related Problems
- Parenthood Preparation
- Any problems causing distress which can be helped by counselling
My Speciality: Pregnancy and Pregnancy Loss and Bereavement
I see parents who are adjusting to parenthood, clients with birth trauma, parents with pregnancy loss of any description. My expertise is with infertility, ectopic, miscarriages, stillbirths and neonatal deaths. I combine my nursing, midwifery, counselling and psychotherapy experience when helping parents cope with childbirth experiences that have proven unsatisfactory. With over thirty years of service in the NHS I have experience in many health related distress. If you are seeking help with any health related illness, I may be able to help.
Pre-Parenthood Sessions
As much as it is a joy to become new parents, sometimes this anticipation can fill a couple with anxiety and concerns. I offer consultative pre-parenthood counselling sessions, whereby couples can explore their fears and worries regarding pregnancy and childbirth. This can be a one only session or more, depending on your needs.
Pre-parenthood consultations stem from my years of experience working with first time parents, including first time parents in re-marriages. The aim of these sessions is to help preserve healthy parental relationships with each other and with the child. Sometimes, by preparing a couple for some of the adjustments that would be needed to encompass the new baby, they are better prepared for some of the problems that can put a strain on their relationship.
Pre-parenthood sessions will consist of me taking a history of the couple’s own parenting helping you to be aware of some of the pitfalls you could avoid. Sometimes we are unaware of how our good intentions can be unhelpful to our child and our relationship. For example, sometimes, without realising it, we can overcompensate with our child to give what we never received as a child and this may be unhelpful for both the child and your relationship. Pre-parenthood sessions are not to teach on parenthood, but merely to help you explore your thought processes about parenting and curbing any pitfalls before they occur. Pre-parenting sessions for individuals will last for one and a half hours for couple sessions and 50 mins for single session. It will cost you £45 for a single individual session and £75 for a couple session.
Pre-parenthood sessions can be held on the telephone only if they are single, individual sessions, not couple sessions. Providing it is the wish of the client, I can email my feedback so couples can share the information.