Counselling in London
Our experienced counsellors can show you simple, yet powerful, strategies that can enable you to turn things around. So you can regain happiness and control in your life.
Online Therapy & In Person Appointments Available.
How Does Counselling Work?
When counselling is successful, you can expect to experience greater self understanding and significant relief and improvement in distressing feelings, thoughts and problematic behaviours. Your confidence in dealing with life challenges should improve alongside feeling happier and more satisfied in life.
Counsellors are trained in theories that can help you understand problematic situations, habits or feelings which cause emotional and psychological discomfort or distress. We can also show you tools and strategies that empower you with the ability to positively address and/or completely overcome problem issues.
At KlearMinds, our experienced counsellors integrate psychotherapy, CBT and coaching techniques into the counselling we provide for you. These additional therapies enable us to tailor the counselling to best suit your learning style and provide you with the greatest opportunity for achieving lasting, positive change, as quickly as possible.
Issues Counselling Can Help
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What Happens in a Counselling session?
Counselling sessions usually involve meeting with a trained counsellor or psychotherapist, in a confidential environment, where you can discuss your concerns. Sessions commonly last about 50 minutes and are conducted on a weekly basis. However, people also can attend sessions that are longer, more frequent or less frequent, depending on the issues they are dealing with and the amount that might suit them best.
Research indicates, that you can get the best results, when you work with a counsellor that really “gets you”. The points below provide a brief description of the type of experience you could expect to have with an effective counsellor.
- The counsellor aims to understand the problems you are facing by asking you questions about your situation. You feel the counsellor really understands your situation and what they say makes sense to you personally. You should not feel confused.
- At the end of the initial session you feel the counselling work has a clear focus on the outcomes you want and you have a sense that the counsellor can help you achieve them. As counselling progresses, you should be feeling some relief/positivity during and after sessions. You should not be feeling excessively distressed, upset or confused during or after sessions.
- The counsellor helps you understand why and where you are getting stuck with problems or situations in your life. You start to gain a better awareness of how your feelings, habits and thinking may be influencing your life. Everything is getting clearer.
- Most importantly the counsellor helps you identify concrete steps you can take to move forward in your life, feel better and more in control. This process continues to the point where; you have improved things in your life to a level that feels good for you and you feel confident you can maintain this improvement as you continue into your future.
Meet Our Counsellors
Jess Lammin
Clinic Director & Psychotherapist
MA Art Psychotherapy, BA, Certs, HCPC, BAAT
Jess holds over 21 years of experience.
Paul Glynn
Clinical Director, Psychotherapist & Counsellor
MSc Counselling, PG Adv Cert CBT, Adv Cert Clinical Supervision, BPhil, MBACP (Accred)
Paul Glynn holds over 35 years experience.
Judy Harrison
Psychotherapist, Couples Therapist
PG Dip Psychotherapy, Dip Mediation, Mindfulness Meditation Cert, Cert Psychotherapy, UKCP, BACP
Judy holds over 25 years experience.
Amanda Reynolds
Psychotherapist & Counsellor
Adv Dip CBT, Dip Counselling, BSc Psychology, Cert Counselling, BACP
Amanda holds over 11 years experience.
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Online Therapy & Counselling
Would you like to access high quality counselling, at a time and place most convenient for you? If you are seeking help but cannot easily access good quality counselling that either fits your busy schedule or is accessible in your area, online counselling can offer the perfect solution. Online counselling, therapy or coaching can be very effective in helping people discover how to address a wide range of issues: from anxiety and depression, to relationship and career concerns.
Frequently Asked Questions
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How Long Does It Take?
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The length of time you will find most helpful depends on a number of factors which include:
- The length of time you have been dealing with the problem
- The degree of change you wish to achieve
- Your level of self-confidence
Because every individual is unique, the number of sessions that might suit one person can be very different for another. However, there are some commonalities in certain instances:
- One Session:
- Some people find one session may enough to get a handle on a specific situation in order to make a decision or gain some clarity.
- 6-12 Sessions:
- Certain people find 6-12 sessions can be enough to get an understanding of a specific problem and establish some strategies which address the situation and relieve symptoms adequately.
- 12-24 Session:
- Other people find 12-24 sessions enables them to tackle a number of issues, gain a deeper self-understanding, remove problematic habits and get good practice in to start making significant positive changes and turn arounds in their lives.
- 24 Sessions or More:
- Some people find 24 sessions or more suits their needs much better. This length can help people really overcome and change habits which were learnt in earlier circumstances in life that were either very difficult, traumatic or complex in some form. Self-confidence can be rebuilt and considerable positive changes in personal well-being, success, ease and deeper happiness can be gained.
If you want to know what length of time might work best for you, your counsellor would be pleased to discuss this with you.
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What Types of Counselling Are Most Effective?
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What Qualifications Should a Counsellor Hold?
London Counselling at KlearMinds
We have a team of highly trained and experienced counsellors working from our consulting rooms in the City of London and Central London. We work expertly and confidentially with a wide range of issues.
What Type of Therapist Can Provide Counselling Services
Counsellor (Counselor – US spelling): The best counsellor will have a recognised training in Counselling Theory and Skills as well as clinical experience in providing face-to-face Counselling. Historically counsellors typically provided brief interventions on specific problems such as stopping smoking or focused anxiety management. Nowadays many therapists who can provide counselling are also trained psychotherapists. This means they also have the ability to work with more complex and long standing problems. To know what they can offer you, it is important to check their credentials (see below).
Psychotherapist: A psychotherapist will have specific training in psychotherapy theory and skills as well as experience in face to face psychotherapy. Psychotherapy trainings have historically been longer than counselling training and therefore most psychotherapists are able to provide counselling.
Counselling Psychologist: A counselling psychologist has similar training to a Psychotherapist, but additionally will hold a degree in Psychology.
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Quality Standards
Our hand-selected therapists have trained in the UK’s most respected institutions. They hold a minimum of 8 and up to 30 years clinical experience within the NHS, private and/or charitable sectors. They are registered with: