Richard Wollocombe

I work 9.00am - 6.30pm Monday to Friday 

Hello, my name is Richard and I am an accredited, qualified and experienced counsellor. I work at A Space for Me, which is a Counselling & Psychotherapy practice in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. I am trained in a number of different therapeutic models and work integratively, accessing all of these models to provide a bespoke approach to whatever is troubling a client. 

I am trained in a number of different therapeutic models, from traditional Psychodynamic, Transactional Analysis and REBT (a more flexible and user friendly version of CBT). I work in an integrative way, which means I will access each of these models in a way that I believe has the client's best interests in mind.

I am an older therapist and have lived a life where I have experienced many challenges that I have discovered, since I started work as a therapist, enable to sit with clients knowing I have experienced many of the issues that people seek help with.

Unlike some therapists, the vast majority of my working life has been outside of therapy. I finished my last job outside of therapy as a director of an engineering business. I have found this experience allows me to help people when working with challenges coming from their career.

I have sat with a number of women struggling with the menopause and have worked with them to help them manage the difficulties the menopause can present.

Being an older male therapist has also seen me sitting with male clients and helping them with life challenges associated with being a male in society today, such as relationship issues, sexual problems and finding meaning and purpose in life and work.

For your first session we will take some time to get to know each other and then move on to what is bringing you into therapy. Before we end the session we will have covered what you wish to achieve in your therapy and how I will go about trying to help you achieve that. The sessions last an hour, although I will always ensure the client is settled before they leave me. Details of costs can be found on the FAQ page at www.aspaceforme.co.uk.