Counselling, EMDR Therapy, Coaching & Supervision

Counselling

As a Counsellor, I specialise in transition, change, loss, grief and bereavement. I work with clients on the issues they bring to the room.

I accept referrals from private clients, EAPs (Employment Assisted Programmes), GPs and other agencies in public and private sectors including charities.

Professionally I find my extensive medical knowledge and clinical expertise help me to work with wide ranging health issues. Focusing on self-awareness and selfcare, gently working through strategies to help each client move forward in their life.

 Issues I work with can include:

• Anxiety, stress, feelings of sadness, depression, panic and relationships
• A cancer diagnosis or other long term condition, coming to terms with the diagnosis, emotional impacts and sometimes end of life management and care planning
• Menopause
• Long Term Condition or Life Limiting Illness
• Infertility / fertility treatments and diagnosis
• Loss of a pregnancy or baby
• ME and fibromyalgia
• Parkinson’s disease
• HIV and AIDs
• Long Covid
• Etc

As a Counsellor and Coach, I have experience of employment / work related issues including stress, work overload, restructuring and coping with workplace bullying or harassment.

Each clients issues are as unique as they are. I work gently to enhance resilience and quality of life.

As an integratively trained counsellor, I use a range of specialist skills, helping clients to make the changes they want in their lives.

Person Centred Therapy (PCT) counselling does not give direction or offer solutions to problems, it aims to help clients understand their needs and to find ways of meeting those needs more effectively.

Psychodynamic Counselling looks at the influence of the past and at recurring patterns in client’s lives.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at ways that thoughts, behaviours and feelings affect us all and how they can be changed to solve problems. I am currently completing an advanced training Diploma in CBT at Dartmoor College.

Existential Counselling explores difficulties from a philosophical perspective; rather than using a technique-based approach, it focuses on the client as a whole, encouraging clients to take responsibility for their successes. Rather than delving into the past, it looks at the here and now.

EMDR 

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing ( EMDR) a relatively new therapy, now used by the NHS on their treatment pathways. It can be an extremely successful and effective treatment for anxiety, stress, trauma and disturbing experiences, with the goal of reducing your distress in the shortest period of time. 

EMDR therapy stimulates information in the brains processing system, transforming your emotional health and works towards resolution of negative experiences and of the anxiety or traumas. Moving you beyond your current limitations to a more resourceful state.

Coaching

Coaching is a recognised motivational and behaviour change approach. It helps with physical and emotional resilience to deal with life’s challenges whilst developing self-awareness and self-care strategies.

To date I have worked with clients on a one-to-one basis (and small groups), dealing with a range of life changing issues at work and home, as well as supporting senior management and executives on performance, self-awareness and self-care.

When working with clients, together we explore what will serve your needs, at your pace. I will support you to set goals you want to achieve for improved wellbeing and balance.

Supervision

Supervision in professional practice is an important part of establishing and maintaining ethical counselling practices and safeguarding clients. It really helps to make sense of our professional work, reflecting and learning about our styles, approaches and theoretical preferences. The supervisory space is a place to pay attention to one’s practice and one’s own wellbeing.

As an integrative practitioner I integrate humanistic and psychodynamic approaches in my work as well as coaching, NLP and mindfulness skills in group facilitation sessions.

I work 1:1 and in groups as a supervisor in a range of settings including my calm studio in Mid Devon.

Counsellor, Work with Police, Hospices, Charity, Charities and NHS staff.  Military MoD personnel and family members.

Create the change you want.

Annie Ford Experienced Counsellor EMDR Therapist  and Supervisor. Covering Devon, Mid-Devon, Cullompton, Pinhoe, Broadclyst, Honiton, Exeter, Whipton, Tiverton, Wellington, Taunton , Whimple, Whimple EX5 4PB  and EX15 1FE  and Somerset

Issues I work with includes Anxiety, Stress,  Depression, Relationships, Fertility, Infertility, Miscarriage, Stillbirth, miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, secondary breast cancer, Rape, Mental Health Issues, PTSD, Trauma, longterm covid, Employment Issues and Counselling,  

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