Elizabeth Cowley

I am available on Monday and Tuesday from 8.30 -18.00 and Wednesday from 8.30- 15.00 for face to face appointments at the listed postcode.

I am also available on those days / times for online appointments.

I am available for online appointments only on Thursday 8.30 -18.00 and on Fridays from 8.30 - 15.00

I aim to relate to and treat you as a whole person who encounters difficulties and concerns, rather than diagnosing or pathologizing what is ''wrong'' with you or taking the view that you are inherently ''flawed'' or ''disordered''. 

So often our feelings and perceptions are meaningful, understandable totally reasonable responses to circumstances. Sometimes we feel especially vulnerable and at a low ebb and don't know why. It would be unusual and strange if we did not feel confused, distressed, angry, fearful and sad faced with many life events, scenarios, demands upon us and the fluctuations in our personal energy and resources. Such responses are totally human and not ''mad'', ''weak'' or signs of ''failure''. 

Sudden, unexpected loss or major change may cause profound shock and de-stabilisation, leaving us seeking to ''make sense'' of life and our identity. 

Our difficulties may stem from early familial relationships. It can be very useful, sometimes essential to explore such formative experiences and their impact upon our relationships with others over time. It can also be equally as important to just be in the present, to address what has arisen and is affecting us irrespective of the long-term past.

Men can feel reluctant to speak out or seek counselling in a contemporary culture in which frequently designates and denigrates their perspectives and experience as ''toxic''. I actively seek to offer males unbiased space.

We can all be hurt and hurt others, we all try our best with regards to the hand we have been dealt, what we have and know. Making sense of our thoughts and feelings, who we are, have been, may seek to be, is a task which faces most humans at some point, or for many of us, on a recurring basis throughout life.

Relationships can be challenging and exhausting as well as rewarding for all of us. Interpersonal difficulties and broken connection are at the heart of much anxiety and depression.  I aim to provide an environment and presence which counters this.

I offer Person Centred, Humanistic / Integrative counselling on a brief or long term basis.

I work with individual adult clients aged 18 +, and offer face to face, video / online and telephone counselling.

As well as a 'qualified professional' I am down to earth and work with my heart as well as head, my guts as well as my brain. I aim to work with you collaboratively, with warmth and compassion toward and interest in what makes you the unique individual you are; to help you grow in self-understanding, personal acceptance, health and wellbeing. issues and struggles and enable self understanding and true change.

If you would like to talk before deciding whether you would like to work with me, I can offer a free introductory half hour chat via telephone / or Zoom.

I do not expect clients to complete a formal assessment in the first session, the session itself allows us to talk through what you feel is most relevant to you and identify the focus of our time together (this can change over time / as sessions evolve).