Welcome
I’m Katrina, your therapist in Witney.
Feeling overwhelmed?
Asking for help can feel daunting, but I can offer you a confidential space in which to share your unique life story and to explore difficult thoughts and feelings as well as your hopes, fears and aspirations.
We can all struggle to cope with issues such as anxiety, stress, low mood, relationship or family difficulties, bereavement and loss; or with things in our past which have not been dealt with, that are now interfering with daily life.
You may feel isolated and that you have no one to talk to or you may have the most supportive friends and family but still find it difficult to explain why you're feeling anxious or depressed. You might just feel it would be easier to talk to someone independent.
Let's find a way forward...
I am a qualified therapist with a Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling Practice and an accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society. I am based in Witney, West Oxfordshire, and work with individual adult clients, usually weekly, on an open-ended basis or for an agreed number of sessions.
What happens in therapy?
Therapy is time set aside by you for us to talk about the issues that have made you seek therapy. It’s not just a friendly chat like you’d have with friends or family. I may offer information but I won’t give my opinions or advice or try to persuade you to a particular point of view. Therapy might include talking about past and present life events, your feelings, emotions, relationships, ways of thinking and patterns of behaviour. As your therapist I will help you look at your concerns and identify the best course of action for you, which might be helping you to resolve your difficulties or to find ways of coping. I can:
• offer a safe and confidential space to help you explore emotional problems
• help you make sense of your world
• help you explore feelings and thoughts to resolve emotional distress
• help you towards a better understanding of yourself and others, which may improve your ability to relate to others
Therapy can help
These are some of the common life difficulties for which people seek the help of a therapist:
- Abuse
- Addictions
- Anxiety
- Bereavement
- Coping with change
- Depression
- Feeling unfulfilled
- Hopelessness
- Identity
- Isolation
- Loss of direction
- Relationship difficulties
- Panic attacks
- Parenting
- Performance Anxiety
- Personal Growth
- Self-esteem
- Self exploration
- Stress
- Sexuality
- Trauma
- Work related issues