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Marina Palmer

Consultation fee:

£90.00

Session Types:

In personIn person
OnlineOnline
About me

As a Humanistic Counsellor, my role is to facilitate self-understanding and growth, nurture self-development, offer support, promote healing where there has been damage, and empower you to make the right choices. We will work together to find the best way forward for you.

Further trainings in CBT therapy as well as Life Coaching have enriched my practice, enabling me to offer clients a more integrated approach to their issues. For instance, I draw upon CBT skills when we explore how your thoughts affect your mood, or when helping you identify the ways in which your coping mechanisms might maintain your problems rather than resolve them. Or you may be looking for a more directive, solution-focused approach in order to achieve a desired outcome. This is where the coaching tools I have learned can be very effective in mobilising you to reach whatever goals you want to set for yourself.

Sessions will be tailored to your specific needs, whether you are seeking shorter-term help with a specific issue, or a longer-term engagement for more complex ones.

In our first session, we will discuss your reasons for seeking therapy, any personal history that you choose to share, as well as your goals for the therapy and the type of support you are looking for. Everything we discuss will be confidential.

You will have the opportunity to experience working with me first-hand and to decide whether you wish to take things forward. There is no obligation to book a further appointment. However, if you decide you would like to book a follow-up appointment, in our second session we will agree to either a short-term, or a more open-ended arrangement.

Whether this is your first time seeking counselling, or whether you have had therapy in the past, it can be difficult to open up to a stranger. My aim, therefore, is to help you feel as comfortable as possible in your first session with me. I do hope I succeed!

Accepting New Clients
Availability
Day Availability
Tuesday9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Marina Palmer

Consultation fee:

£90.00

Session Types:

In personIn person
OnlineOnline
About me

As a Humanistic Counsellor, my role is to facilitate self-understanding and growth, nurture self-development, offer support, promote healing where there has been damage, and empower you to make the right choices. We will work together to find the best way forward for you.

Further trainings in CBT therapy as well as Life Coaching have enriched my practice, enabling me to offer clients a more integrated approach to their issues. For instance, I draw upon CBT skills when we explore how your thoughts affect your mood, or when helping you identify the ways in which your coping mechanisms might maintain your problems rather than resolve them. Or you may be looking for a more directive, solution-focused approach in order to achieve a desired outcome. This is where the coaching tools I have learned can be very effective in mobilising you to reach whatever goals you want to set for yourself.

Sessions will be tailored to your specific needs, whether you are seeking shorter-term help with a specific issue, or a longer-term engagement for more complex ones.

In our first session, we will discuss your reasons for seeking therapy, any personal history that you choose to share, as well as your goals for the therapy and the type of support you are looking for. Everything we discuss will be confidential.

You will have the opportunity to experience working with me first-hand and to decide whether you wish to take things forward. There is no obligation to book a further appointment. However, if you decide you would like to book a follow-up appointment, in our second session we will agree to either a short-term, or a more open-ended arrangement.

Whether this is your first time seeking counselling, or whether you have had therapy in the past, it can be difficult to open up to a stranger. My aim, therefore, is to help you feel as comfortable as possible in your first session with me. I do hope I succeed!

Training, qualifications & experience

Advance Dip. Humanistic Counselling, Metanoia Institute (2016); BSc Reflective Therapeutic Practice, Middlesex University (2016)

Summary of Experience

I am a BACP Accredited Counsellor with over ten years’ experience, offering individual counselling to adults of all ages – from 18 to 118! You are all welcome to my practice. You may be seeking counselling because you are feeling worried all the time; or you feel unable to experience enjoyment – you are more tearful than usual, or you feel “flat” or “low”. This might be for any number of reasons: You might have experienced an adverse life event or a change in circumstance, such as a bereavement, the end of a relationship, the loss of a job or the new diagnosis of a health condition. You may be feeling stressed at work or at university, or overwhelmed with caring responsibilities, or experiencing difficulties in your friendships, in your primary relationship or in your family of origin. Or you may simply feel “stuck” but not know why. Perhaps you have faced difficulties or had trauma in the past – you were bullied at school, you were involved in an accident, or there were problems within the home. You may have experienced abuse or neglect. Together we will seek to understand how your experience has shaped the way you think about things, or feel about yourself, and how these may be holding you back in the present. As your self-awareness grows, so will your ability to make positive changes to your life. Whether you are facing one of these issues or another that’s not listed, or you simply want to talk to someone outside of your day-to-day life in order to gain a different perspective, my aim is to support you as best I can. Whatever your reason for reaching out for help, I am available either in person or by video, to talk it through with you.

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