Dave Shepherd

With the right therapist, remarkable change can happen.

I've been the right fit for many clients, and I've had the privilege of joining them in their journeys from being stuck, sometimes with painfully low self-worth, sometimes hopelessness, shame or confusion, and I've seen them rediscover their value and their voice, begin to make sense of their past, and build a new foundation to help guide them into the future.

I’m Dave Shepherd and I’m a qualified Person-Centered therapist based in Hull, in the north of England.

I hold a Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling from Beverley College (since early 2025) and have just set up my own private practise in 2026.

Between 2024 and mid 2025 I volunteered in-house providing counselling sessions for Giroscope in Hull (a housing co-operative - for a year and a half) and for OSHI (an addiction service - for one year).

The therapy I use is Person-Centered Therapy. Here’s what it’s all about.

Person-Centered therapy is a talking therapy, and that's what we'll do.

The aim is to provide you a comfortable and confidential space to talk as much or as little as you need to about the things that are important to you. In this space you'll be listened to without judgement and you'll have the focused attention of someone who genuinely wants to understand what it's like to walk in your shoes.

Within this kind of environment, many things can and do happen. For example, issues that were creating huge distress are shared and begin to lose some of their intensity. Complicated problems are given the space to be laid out, inspected, untangled and organised. Unrecognised wants and needs start to emerge and new confidence and self-valuing begins to bubble up.

These results are almost all completely down to you having the right conditions to self-heal and grow in the direction that's right for you. My job is to create those conditions, and occasionally - when appropriate - to gently help emergent moments of meaning and growth to catch hold and have the chance to take root.

I offer a choice of face-to-face or online sessions for £35, with a free taster session to see if we click.

At the end of your free 30 minute session we decide together whether to continue into formal sessions - which are 50 minutes long and weekly for a period of time agreed by us both. During our first formal session we'll go over our counselling contract to help you understand your rights as a client and the regulations I need to follow that cover our work together.