Counselling and Psychotherapy
Counselling and Psychotherapy offer a safe, confidential, and supportive space to explore emotional challenges and enhance mental wellbeing. Whether facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, trauma, or life difficulties, this process provides a compassionate environment where clients can gain insight, resilience, and coping strategies to navigate life’s challenges with greater clarity and confidence.
Counselling is typically short-term and focuses on specific issues such as stress, bereavement, relationship difficulties, or decision-making whereas Psychotherapy tends to be longer-term and explores more deep-seated emotional difficulties, unconscious patterns, and personality structures. It often involves working through childhood experiences, attachment issues, and trauma.
Presenting Issues include:
Stress
Anxiety
Panic attacks/ Social Anxiety
Low Mood/Depression
Low Self Esteem
Relationship issues
Grief, Loss and Bereavement
“‘I started working with Patsy as I felt I had lost who I was over years of change, I became a passenger just waiting and reacting to life. I wanted to figure out how to take back the driving seat in my life. Our sessions helped me to clarify how those years of changes now changed my core values and realise i was ready to let go of my old values which served me when I was younger but were now unhelpful. With this clarity I was able to set personal goals and see what changes I needed to make in my day-to-day life. Patsy also guided me in being ok with making these changes. This made me feel in control, stronger and more content
than I had in years’.”


Distinguishing Counselling and Psychotherapy
While counselling and psychotherapy share similarities, such as providing a safe and confidential space for individuals to explore their thoughts and emotions, they differ in depth, focus, and approach
“It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens, how confusions that seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.“
Carl Rogers