James Rye

In addition to working with clients who self-refer, I also work with a range of Employee Assistance Programmes offering fixed term counselling for employees. 

I work with people with a range of relationship and personal problems including: anxiety, affairs and betrayals, general anxiety disorder, relationship issues, coping with divorce, pre-marriage problems, sexual difficulties, abuse (mental, physical, sexual, spiritual), living with difficult relations, family issues (including parents and children), assertiveness, stress, loss, grief, bereavement, phobias, panic attacks, redundancy, depression, feeling sad, difficult decision making, addictions, anger management, aggression, conflict, infertility, sexuality, self-image, obsessions (OCD), personality disorders, dependency, avoidance, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

I also work with couples.

The first session is partly spent in getting to know a bit about you and your history, and explaining how I work.  

After that, we start work by focussing on what you want to work on.  This usually (but not always) means exploring any unhelpful thoughts and behaviours that you have in the present, and how they may have been influenced by events in your past.

However, some clients sometimes have some quite specific requests about what they want and how they want to work, and if I am able to accommodate that, I am always willing to try.

Before becoming a therapist I was a teacher and a teacher trainer.  I now offer CPD training days for therapists on a variety of topics such as anger, anxiety, forgiveness, running a therapy business, introduction to CBT, introduction to Solution-Focus Therapy, keeping therapy brief and working for agencies.