Assault, Abuse & Violence - Counselling in Leeds

 

About Our Violence Counselling in Leeds

 

Sessions are available both in-person and online.  If you do not live close by, online therapy offers convenience and flexibility from your own home(s).  Alternatively, I offer a comfortable environment within my home where you may feel you can leave your feelings and struggles for me to ‘hold’ until our next session.

Sessions can address experiences of domestic and/or sexual abuse.  We can look at how you see yourself as, for example, a victim?  An aggressor?  Something else?  Perhaps you are struggling to move on from a recent or historic event or pattern of events? Perhaps you encounter violence regularly in your work place either directly or indirectly?  You may be an emergency responder, an NHS worker, social worker, mental health worker, teacher, solicitor or a member of the armed forces.  Whatever your background, I am here to help.

Why Insight? The Process and the Sessions:

Please email, text or call to arrange an initial, free phone or zoom chat about your needs.  I will forward an assessment form to you as a guide to the sort of information we might discuss on the call.

There is no obligation to book a session. We might start by looking at when you first realised you were experiencing anxiety, stress or trauma related to specific life events and move on to explore the relevant relationships involved.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • No one discloses everything in the first session!  There wouldn’t be time!  We will work at your pace as our therapeutic relationship grows. Often, as sessions move on, clients identify issues they hadn’t, initially. I

  • Clients vary quite widely in their presenting issues.  Abuse can take many forms (physical, emotional, financial, sexual, psychological). It can be useful to look at the roles you see yourself in – parent/carer, child, spouse, partner, (link to parenting blog?) employee, business owner etc.

  • If you need to cancel, please provide at least 24 hours’ notice as I would then be able to offer the session to another client. See our T&C’s here

  • If you find your obligations and responsibilities quite changeable, there is no need to have sessions at the same time and day, or even every week.  We can work around your life style and commitments.

What I Can Help With

  • Couples & Individuals

  • Bereavement and loss

  • Relationship difficulties

  • Parenting problems

  • Difficulties at work

  • Stress and anxiety

  • Separation and divorce

  • Illness

  • Abuse

  • Confidence and self esteem

  • Self-awareness

  • Current problems

  • Long-running issues

  • Behaviour patterns

  • Childhood issues