Steven Newcombe

Face-to-face and online appointments available Monday to Friday, including daytime and evening sessions. Some Saturday morning appointments are also available. Individual therapy £50 per hour; couples therapy £65 per hour.

There are many reasons you might be considering therapy. You may be struggling with anxiety, trauma, grief or loss, feeling overwhelmed by work or relationships, or simply finding that the way you have been coping no longer seems to work.

I am a BACP registered counsellor offering individual and couples therapy from my practice in central Chester and online.

My approach is warm, straightforward and collaborative. I am person-centred at my core and work in a trauma-informed way, while also drawing on humanistic, relational, existential and Gestalt approaches where they are useful.

Therapy with me isn't about being judged, diagnosed or told what to do. It is an opportunity to understand what is happening, explore how you got here and find ways of moving forward that work for you.

I work with individuals experiencing a broad range of difficulties including anxiety, trauma and PTSD, grief and bereavement, low mood, stress, self-esteem, identity, relationship difficulties, addiction and recovery, men's mental health, workplace stress and burnout.

I also have particular experience of working with serving and former members of the Armed Forces. Before becoming a therapist I served as an RAF officer, including operational deployments. I have subsequently worked extensively with veterans and have trained other professionals in understanding veterans, trauma and complex PTSD.

Alongside individual therapy, I offer couples and relationship counselling.

Couples often come to therapy because they have become caught in patterns they no longer know how to change. You may be having the same arguments repeatedly, struggling to communicate, feeling emotionally distant, dealing with a loss of trust or intimacy, or wondering how your relationship moves forward.

I do not approach couples work by deciding who is right or wrong. Instead, we look together at what happens between you, how each of you experiences the relationship and how different patterns of communication and connection may have developed.

I work face-to-face in central Chester and also offer online sessions.

Individual therapy: £50 for one hour.

Couples therapy: £65 for one hour.

Appointments are available Monday to Friday, including daytime and evening sessions, with some Saturday morning availability.

The first session gives us an opportunity to meet and get a sense of whether working together feels right.

I'll want to understand what has brought you to therapy, what life is like for you at the moment and what you would like to be different. You don't need to arrive with everything worked out or know exactly what you want from counselling.

If you are coming for couples therapy, the first session gives both of you space to explain how you experience the relationship and what you would like help with. My role is not to decide who is right or take sides, but to begin understanding what is happening between you.

We can also discuss how I work, confidentiality and practical arrangements, and you will have plenty of opportunity to ask me questions.

I am a qualified clinical supervisor and BACP registered counsellor offering supervision to trainee and qualified therapists.

My core orientation is person-centred and humanistic. My clinical work is trauma-informed and I also integrate relational, Gestalt and existential thinking. However, I don't believe good supervision requires you to work exactly as I do. I welcome different approaches and aim to help supervisees develop their own therapeutic identity, confidence and way of working.

For me, good supervision needs to be supportive enough for us to talk openly about uncertainty and difficulty, while also being willing to challenge when challenge is useful.

Supervision should provide somewhere to think as well as somewhere to ensure that practice remains safe and ethical.

Our work may include exploring the client and their wider world, the therapeutic relationship, what is happening for you as the therapist, ethical questions and risk, professional development and the impact the work may be having on you.

My supervision is informed by Hawkins and Shohet's Seven-Eyed Model, alongside my person-centred and humanistic training and wider clinical experience.

I work with both qualified practitioners and counselling trainees and can also provide group supervision.

Alongside private practice, I have experience teaching and training therapists on veterans, trauma and complex PTSD.

Supervision is available face-to-face in Chester or online.

Sessions are one hour or one and a half hours according to need.

Qualified therapists: £50 per hour.

Trainee therapists: £45 per hour.

Our first session is an opportunity for us to begin understanding how you work, what you need from supervision and whether we feel we can work effectively together.

I will be interested in your therapeutic orientation, the client groups you work with, your experience so far and any particular areas in which you would like support or development.

It is also important that you get a sense of me. Supervision is a significant professional relationship, so there will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions about how I work and what you can expect from me.