Effective counselling works in helping to make sense of how you feel. Very often people are confused by their feelings and emotions and one to one counselling can make a real difference.

You know you don’t feel right and and you may be well be aware that your emotions and behaviour are irrational but as much as you try you can’t seem to do anything about it.

Counselling gives you the time and opportunity to talk about the situations which impact on you. Many people believe that there is something wrong with them or that they will never be able to shake off the way they feel. Counselling helps to clear the cobwebs from a confused mind and in doing so you become better placed to recognise and create workable solutions to the negativities in your life.

 
There are misconceptions about counselling. Some people think that counselling is somewhere where you just go to talk and that the counsellor will dig up all childhood memories to unearth trauma from your younger years. Others worry that they won’t be able to talk about how they feel or feel they will get embarrassed. Paul is a fully trained and experienced therapist who will help you to feel at ease from the outset and his natural and friendly approach will help you to feel relaxed.
 
Our counselling is solution focused and works in the here and now. What this means is that although an understanding of your past may be beneficial to understand how you got to where you are, the emphasis of the counselling is aimed at working with the problems that affect you now and develop solutions to those problems so you make your present and future a better one for you.

Traditional counselling along with cognitive behavioural therapy counselling can help you make the life changes you are looking to make.

Hello! My name is Paul Allenby and I have been in private practice for over 14 years years helping people work through their problems.

I believe that each and every client who comes through my door experiences their problems in a unique and individual way and with that the therapy I provide is unique and individual too.