Tonie Lawrence-Tabor

I offer Face to face, online counselling, Telephone counselling, Time-limited and medium term therapy 

My main working day for offering therapy/supervision is a Friday and my general working hours are 10am to 6pm. I am currently offering some evening appointments for couples and I know many clients do not wish to have weekly sessions so fortnightly sessions are possible.

I can be contacted for enquiries at any time during the week and aim to respond promptly. Texting to make initial contact/enquiries is fine.

I am a qualified and accredited counsellor and psychotherapist with an additional private practice in Wing, Leighton Buzzard. I have over 20 years of experience working in the voluntary, NHS and private sectors. I have offered counselling and group work within alternative educational provisions as well as working in primary/secondary schools.

I currently work in the NHS Child Adolescent Mental Health services and with Relate offering therapy to couples and individuals. I have experience facilitating DBT skills groups to support parents and young people experiencing difficulties with self-harm, emotional regulation and distress tolerance.

Throughout my training, I experienced a journey of self-discovery and growth. Working with clients i gained knowledge and experience being part of their therapeutic journey. Observing a client's courage, taught me the painful reality of mental health difficulties and how their internal reasoning and belief systems created self-destructive patterns of behavior they often had little control over.

Many of my clients described these behavior patterns over time as feeling themselves being chipped away in many areas of their lives. This affected their mental health which impacted upon their well-being, relationships, work, family and other areas of their lives

This influenced me further to attain additional qualifications using art, sand and play interventions as an addition to other methodologies of therapies. These interventions are useful to help clients access information often suppressed out of their conscious awareness. Once clients gain this awareness it offers them the possibility to create the changes that bring positive influences into their lives and an understanding of themselves in the world.

I believe, at the very core of our being, we all have the innate inner qualities that allows us to evolve and build resilience.

My main source of work is offering a variety of therapeutic interventions to offer support to young people and the families with moderate to severe mental health challenges.

In private practice, I enjoy offering couples therapy. This therapeutic intervention supports the understanding of differences and helps couples to reconnect and express their feelings to each other in a safer environment. This process of awareness enables a couple to understand each other's concerns, whilst gaining validation of their individual experiences.

The building of trust between them teaches acceptance of each other and reduces the need to control which are familiar relational patterns within a couple relationship. Working through these differences together brings healthy change, understanding and intimacy back into their lives. Throughout the couple's work, couple's will be offered coping strategies and suggestions to implement at home.

Qualifications:

M.A. in Child, adolescent and family psychotherapy

Level 5 Integrative Counselling.

Couples relationship therapist

Sand therapist

Supervisor

Psychosexual therapist in training.

First sessions are usually approximately one hour at the normal fee of £55 individuals £70 couple's.

In the first session we will hope to get an understanding of what you wish to work on, how this might be done, and if we feel that we can usefully work together. I encourage all clients to step back for reflection after the first session and contact me via text 24-48 hours after if they wish to continue.