cognitive behavioural therapy, cbt, counselling cheshire, crewe, mental health, depression, ocd, ptsd, anger management, anxiety and stress

About My Therapy

My services include Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT), Third Wave CBT Therapies, CFT - Compassion Focused Therapy, BA - Behavioural Activation Therapy and much more...

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Counselling services in Crewe & Cheshire:

Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT)
Third Wave CBT Psychotherapies (ACT, CFT, BA)
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
Counselling
Couples Therapy
Therapy and training Services to businesses and organisations
Facilitation of groups
Training
Trauma support (group or individual)
Supervision (Individual or group supervision)

Counselling

Although the term 'Counselling' is sometimes a term used generally to describe all types of therapy, it also refers to a specific type of therapy. Counselling allows an individual to talk to a trained counsellor about a specific type of problem with the aim of helping the client to understand their problem more clearly and come up with their own solutions to deal with these difficulties.

Further information about Counselling is available on the web site: www.bacp.co.uk.

Couples Therapy

"A relationship is something that you need to work on frequently to keep it alive. The work that you put into it is like giving water to the plant so that it grows or like putting fuel into a car in order to run it on the road". (Dr. Sadhana Damani)

In my couples therapy work I use an integrative approach that consists of Systemic Counselling and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). This is a process of helping the parties in a relationship to recognise and better manage, or reconcile troublesome differences and to recognise and change repeating patterns of negative interactions and distress.

Experience

I have significant experience in providing therapy for a range of problems
that include the following:

Stress/anxiety
Bereavement/loss
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Adjustment (after negative experience
e.g. accident/trauma etc)
Anger Management
Depression
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Bipolar Mood Disorder
Specific Phobia
Driving/passenger anxiety
Health Anxiety
Social Anxiety

Workplace problems/stress
Rehabilitation
Relationship problems and Couples Therapy
Family issues
Pain Management
Addictions
Illness
Sexual abuse
Assertiveness
Loss of self esteem/confidence

Supervision

I have been working as a supervisor in private practice for a considerable number of years.

I have supervised trainee therapists from Keele University, Stoke on Trent College, University of Manchester, Lancaster University and Derby University.

I have a Postgraduate Certificate in Supervision and offer one-to-one supervision and/or group supervision to trainee and experienced therapists.

This is by no means a complete list.
If you have an issue that is not listed here, please ring me to discuss it confidentially.

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Valerie Grattage-Rushton
Telephone: 01270 256712
Mobile: 07883 084041

E-mail: info@valpsychotherapist.com
Web: www.valpsychotherapist.com