Sheila Bartlett

I am an older, white woman who has been offering counselling and psychotherapy for over 30 years, now seeing clients in Hackney.   Preferring the variety of generic work, I have never specialised in any particular field.   I work with adults and for the past 12 years have also seen students from one of the architectural colleges in London. For 22 years I ran a Counselling Service at a local doctors` surgery.   Thus, I have gathered a great deal of experience and still enjoy the work, being interested in the people I see and working cross-culturally, gaining enough job satisfaction when they improve their lives and wellbeing to see me through the sadder times when this does not seem to occur.   What happens is not as important as how we react to it : we cannot always control the former but the latter is completely up to us; it is not easy -  yet it is possible.