Sheila Coles
Registered Member MBACP
Contact information
- Phone number
- 07738 228815
Therapist - Wokingham
Features
- Flexible hours available
About me and my therapy practice
Hello - thank you for visiting my profile page.
I am an Integrative Psychotherapist experienced in working with adult clients facing a wide range of life life challenges and traumatic experiences.
I believe that our psychological wellbeing is ever changing as we experience and respond to different life contexts and changing relationships in family, work-life and social life. Sometimes life events stop us in our tracks. Sometimes we have a sense of something not being quite right in ourselves or feel tensions in our relationships. Sometimes we feel we’re not functioning in the world in the ways we’d like. We might feel angry, afraid, depressed, anxious, overwhelmed, or disconnected from ourselves and others.
How I Work as a Therapist
I work from a relational perspective drawing on humanistic and psychodynamic therapeutic traditions. For you this means:
Relational - I offer a safe confidential space where we can work together with the issues you bring to therapy. Forming a strong alliance allows us to work together in a relationship that supports your development.
Humanistic - I listen with respect and empathy, attempting to understand as closely as possible your experience of being in the world. We work together with a focus on what and how you would like to be different.
Psychodynamic - I am curious about your experiences beyond the here and now. Exploring patterns of thoughts, feelings, behaviour, and sensation experienced across time and in different contexts to help us make sense of the issues you bring.Integrative - My in-depth training in diverse well-researched aspects of counselling psychology allows me to draw on resources and approaches well fitted to your goals for therapy.
I use EMDR therapy to work with traumatic experience.
EMDR targets past experiences, current triggers, and future potential challenges, in working towards: reducing mental, physical, and behavioural symptoms; decreasing distress from disturbing memories; and promoting a healthy sense of self.
Practice description
How to Begin Working with Me
Please use the contact details provided here to make an initial enquiry about working with me. I offer a free fifteen-minute phone call to understand what you would like to bring to therapy. Sometimes it might be difficult to say exactly what that is: and that’s fine. After speaking we might arrange an initial meeting to explore your situation and see if we each feel we could work together. If we plan to go ahead together, we will agree on a regular weekly meeting time and proposed timescale for our work. Sometimes this work will be relatively contained over an agreed number of sessions. Sometimes we’ll set a more open-ended timescale. It depends on what you’d like to explore: and we will review how the work is going on a regular basis
What I can help with
Abuse, Addictions, AIDS/HIV, Anger management, Anxiety, Bereavement, Career coaching, Child related issues, Chronic fatigue syndrome / ME, Cultural issues, Depression, Development coaching, Disability, Eating disorders, Executive coaching, Health related issues, Identity issues, Leadership coaching, Life coaching, Loss, Men's issues, Obsessions, OCD, Personal development, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy related issues, Redundancy, Relationships, Self esteem, Self-harm, Service veterans, Sex-related issues, Sexual identity, Sexuality, Spirituality, Stress, Trauma, Women's issues, Work related issues
Types of therapy
Behavioural, Cognitive, Humanistic, Integrative, Person centred, Psychodynamic, Relational
Clients I work with
Adults, Couples, EAP, Organisations
How I deliver therapy
Long-term face-to-face work, Online therapy, Short-term face-to-face work, Telephone therapy
Languages spoken
English