Kerry Hampton

Limited availability. 

*Westbury office used FRIDAY ONLY. (40 steps)

*Home cabin in Hilperton is used MON TO THURS. (one step)

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I am Kerry, local to Wiltshire. Working as a Qualified Integrative Counsellor, I take account of the whole person, emotional, physical and mental. I am trained in many theoretical approaches and a registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. (MBACP). I work with a range of issues including trauma, abuse, depression, anxiety and relationship issues. I am also a certified mental health first aider, a trauma informed practitioner and hold a L2 in early years neuroscience, alongside my interest in polyvagal theory, which helps me study your nervous system, and what our brain may be doing in times of stress. I have also partaken in personal therapy, and this allows me to know what it feels like to be in that chair. I recognise those feelings of vulnerability and fear (to name a few), but also the feeling of growth and change the therapy can bring.

I can offer a safe, confidential, non-judgemental space where you can come for an allocated hour, just for you, to work on anything that seems to be troubling you. I will listen intuitively and with empathy to anything you would like to share with me. Together, I hope to help you find new ways of coping and for you to have a better understanding and clarity of yourself and others, whilst I use a variety of techniques catered to your unique self.

I am a warm, caring and friendly counsellor and I believe each person is unique and that we all have our own answers to our own problems, we can just get a little lost sometimes.

As an Integrative therapist I can use many therapies, perspectives and interventions, but your focus is not on what therapy I use, it is on what is presented to me about you and what you need. Rather than specializing in one traditional approach, I seek to combine aspects of different approaches to provide the most effective way of working. My attunement to you is the most important aspect to create a way that works in the most compatible and safe way for the individual that you are, whilst building our therapeutic relationship with trust and honour.

I will help you to explore your feelings, your thoughts and your behaviours with compassion. There may be old patterns that served you once, but are no longer effective, as well as possible relationship issues that need attention and care. In my experience, everyone can face difficulties in their lives; too often people suffer in silence, stay stuck or feel generally hopeless. When faced with the right environment, our difficulties can become a source of change and growth creating different outcomes and possibilities. ​I endeavour to not give opinions or judgements, but I will guide you through your journey and be with you through the ups and downs that may arise, and help you to make sense of those occurrences, offering you an empathic, listening ear in a safe environment and completely at your pace. Our therapeutic relationship will grow as you bravely let me into your world, and I will honour that privilege by helping you create a new toolbox of coping skills and guiding you to make effective changes to your life, thus becoming a newer version of you.

An initial assessment session is important. This will be free and online for 30 minutes, so we can meet and get to know each-other. It is this shorter session that we will see our potential and our fit. In this first meet, I will hear what has brought you here and what you would like out of the therapy sessions and your expectations from counselling. You will have the chance to ask questions about me, or how I work.

If we decide we would like to continue we will make an agreement where we meet weekly, same time, same place and this will be your slot, suited to you and my availability. From this first meet, there is chance for me to have an idea of how we can work together. Being trained in a range of Humanistic and integrative therapies I can cater to each unique person.

For more on how therapy works take a look...https://www.bacp.co.uk/about-therapy/what-is-counselling/

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*All sessions are respected, private and confidential.