Duncan Stoddart

I am a fully accredited counsellor & psychotherapist with over 17 years experience. I provide therapy for individuals and currently manage a psychotherapy practice in central Shrewsbury.

I offer an exploratory session (at a reduced rate) by telephone or video that can help you feel more certain about whether to engage in counselling or psychotherapy. Some people find that a few sessions of therapy can help them address a specific problem, while others choose to work on a longer-term basis to help focus on deeper issues.

I have extensive training and experience of working with anxiety, relationship difficulties, depression and stress. Other issues that people bring to therapy, such as bi-polar disorder, complex patterns of relating and personality disorders, GAD (generalised anxiety disorder), panic attacks, and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), are issues that I am familiar with as a psychotherapist and trainer.

How can counselling & psychotherapy help you?

Talking to someone who gives you their total attention and empathy can help you see yourself and your situation more clearly. It can release you from being alone with difficult or confusing thoughts and feelings. Seeing them in a new light can clarify them and help you see a way through, and may enable you to work out what—and how—you want to change.

It may also help you come to terms and cope more effectively with those things you cannot change.

I work as a Client-Centred or Person-Centred therapist and clinical supervisor. Client-Centred therapy emphasises a therapeutic relationship in which a person may learn to draw from, and trust, inner resources that serve as a means of changing emotional and behavioural patterns recognised as unhelpful or problematic.

Accredited at senior level, I supervise other counsellors, psychotherapists and clinical therapists working in the Telford, Wrekin and Shropshire areas. I have worked as a psychotherapist and counsellor in universities, mental health agencies, and in the private sector. 

As a trained and qualified supervisor I offer supervision for counsellors, psychotherapists and other healthcare professionals who want to explore their own processes with clients.

In our work you can expect a very strong focus on self-awareness and personal development. This will apply to your relationships with clients as much as to yourself. I work hard to hear and understand the counsellors and trainees I work with, and to offer appropriately-timed challenge and support.

My professional practice is firmly rooted in the BACP's Ethical Framework, and I am committed to my own learning and development as a therapist and supervisor.

Meeting

I offer an initial exploratory session that allows you to clarify what you are looking for in a supervisory relationship. In turn, I will explain my approach to supervision, how we might work together, and discuss a supervision agreement that sets out the boundaries of the relationship.

Qualifications & Experience

I am accredited with the BACP at senior level, and hold a post-graduate certificate in supervision. I am currently in full-time private practice, working with individual clients and supervisees.

Contact & Fees

If you would like to talk briefly by phone, I can be contacted on:

07900 307 903

Alternatively you can email me via "Contact Duncan" on the left.

I charge £50 per hour and £70 per 1.5 hrs.