Denise Golding

I am a qualified BACP counsellor and supervisor and have been practising for over 30 years; I provide individual counselling for adults and young people as well as couple and family sessions.

I specialise in Adoption and fostering and relationship issues and trying to change patterns of behaviour which have become unhelpful over time. I often work with issues related to childhood trauma, adoption, neurodiversity, separation and loss and for many years my work has included young people and families affected by adoption or who have been looked after (LAC). I also work with adopted adults.

I offer parent-child sessions and parenting strategies for parents with children with challenging behaviour including adoption, fostering and autism spectrum/mental health diagnoses.

I am trained in psychosynthesis counselling and supervision; the psychosynthesis approach explores how thoughts and feelings affect our emotional and physical wellbeing. It considers how past experiences and patterns of behaviour can impact the present and can prevent us from living life to the full.

I also draw on other therapeutic approaches, including psychodynamic, family systems therapy, EMDR and CBT.

I have a postgraduate diploma in psychosynthesis counselling as well as a postgraduate diploma in the therapeutic application of the arts. I also have a diploma in psychotherapy skills with children and adolescents and training in systems family therapy. I am a EMDR practitioner.

I offer a free 15 mins telephone consultation for us to see whether I am the right person to work with you or whether I can assist you in finding appropriate support for you or a member of your family; please email to request this. 

Daytime Only

I am a Trainer, Supervisor and Counsellor. I have 30+ years’ experience of working with children and families, including the past 25 years working in adoption, fostering, kinship care and with children with additional needs.

I am a certified instructor in a parenting model ‘The Great Behaviour Breakdown’, which I have trained  for the past 11 years. This is an innovative parent training for adopters, foster carers and any parents of children who display challenging behaviour. I am trained in DDP Levels 1 & 2 (with Dan Hughes), Theraplay Level 1, Mindfulness and Systems Family Therapy Level 1. 

I have a post-graduate diploma in the Therapeutic application of the Arts and in Psychosynthesis counselling, as well as in Psychotherapy skills with children and adolescents.

I have now trained thousands of parents, foster carers and social workers and psychologists in this parenting model. This can be delivered face-face or online throughout the UK and Ireland for the past 12 years and offer ongoing support to families.

I only work daytime hours- I see supervises face to face and online

As well as my diploma in integrative supervision from the Psychosynthesis Trust, I have a postgraduate diploma in psychosynthesis counselling and a postgraduate diploma in the therapeutic application of the arts. 

I am social work trained and have a CQSW.

I also have a diploma in psychotherapy skills with children and adolescents and training in systems family therapy. I am currently completing EMDR training.

I am a certified instructor in the Great Behaviour breakdown parenting model and am DDP (Developmental dyadic psychotherapy) and Theraplay trained.