Lorraine Ballintine

I provide evening counselling sessions on Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays. I currently have counselling session space available.

My person centred approach is simple and affective, I am passionate about helping others which comes from a motivation of wanting to learn and share in mutually respectful relationships. I use active listening to seek a deep understanding of my clients perspective, feelings and emotions. I am able to accompany you and work with you to identify and manage the changes you want to make in your life. In time and with the openness gained by our client/counsellor relationship you can reveal new perspectives, self awareness and self healing.

Many private counselling practices are named after their founder, which is great as it is in keeping with the therapist being the brand. I decided to name my practice Howlite Therapy to emulate the aims of my practice and approach to therapy. Howlite is a crystal that is said to calm communication, facilitate awareness and encourages emotional expression and teaches patience helping to ease rage, pain and stress.

I offer clients a calm atmosphere in which they can begin to understand, cope with and heal from incidents such as trauma, grief, mourning, PTSD, anxiety and depression. The objective of the therapeutic process is to bring to the forefront one’s inner strength and slowly rebuild self.