Counselling/Psychotherapy and Supervision in Leeds, West Yorkshire
Tel: Leeds (0113) 262 5783 email: kristal@kristalclark.com web: www.kristalclark.com

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What I can offer you

I offer confidential, professional counselling/psychotherapy and clinical supervision in Leeds at two locations, in Leeds 8. My main location is Oakwood, LS8 4BA (top of Roundhay Road). I am available in Oakwood during most office hours.
I work to a professional code of ethics and practice which includes certain rules of confidentiality.

I also co-teach 'Co-counselling' annually.

1. Psychotherapy and Counselling

Psychotherapy and counselling are one form of 'personal development'. They offer ways of looking at your problems and the part you play in these problems. You may have a deep-seated issue that has preoccupied you for many years, you may have a problem at work, or you may want to talk through a decision that you cannot make, so the nature of your predicament may determine whether you come for a short time or for longer. The depth of your work will depend on what you need or on what you are prepared to face, and we would discuss this.

Significant events may include: loss, divorce, relationship or social difficulties, death, redundancy, forms of abuse, adoption, identitiy issues. Other issues may be concerned with: feeling depressed, high anxiety, unhappiness, disillusionment, low self-esteem, lack of confidence, emotional difficulties around food, sexual identity or other sexual problems, work-related issues, family conflicts.

At times, your therapy/counselling will feel painful and upsetting, and at other times you may feel confident. You may experience relief at being able to talk about something that has never been talked about before. You may find it extremely difficult to talk. The process of therapy is an unfolding of knotted issues that cause emotional distress and talking in therapy can help to untangle some of those knots. There is no quick-fix solution but what I offer is a way of working that helps you to understand yourself better and how you relate to others. I would hope to provide you with an experience that could change aspects of your life and relationships for the better.

I offer an intial appointment plus several appointments to start with to give you time to make a decision about attending. If we continue to meet, we will meet regularly, either once weekly, or twice or more weekly, at the same time(s) each week.

If you are a couple seeking therapy, it can be helpful to see someone separately so that you feel free to express yourself without the other person present. If you come for individual therapy/counselling within your couple, your partner/spouse will not be invited to attend. If you think your partner or sibling or children "needs counselling", you may want to ask whether it is "you" that needs to come.

Please call me for an initial discussion or leave me your message: (0113) 262 5783. If my telephone is on ansaphone, leave me your number and a time when I can call you back.

2. Co-counselling Skills

I assist with Co-counselling courses in Leeds every year which are generally taught in the Autumn. I can offer to work with you individually using the techniques from co-counselling. Co-counselling is a model based upon the ideas that you can express yourself more fully than you usually do and through this system you can develop more confidence, be more vocal, understand yourself differently.It is based on the strategy of directing yuorself in the process with the therapist being the facilitator. This system usually starts with you talking about a problem you have and you work towards understanding how to manage yourself with the problem in a more effective way. The method can involve role-play, acting out a scene, having those conversations that you wish you could have.
For more information about co-counselling go towww.co-counselling.co.uk

3. Clinical Supervision/ Consultation

I offer clinical supervision for practitioners who think psychodynamically about their work and who want to work with these concepts. We will meet either weekly, fortnightly or monthly at an agreed time at the same time each week, for 50 minutes. The fee for each session is £40.

I bring to my work different experiences of clinical supervision: groups, peer and individual, together with the exacting training in psychotherapy which informs the way I think about the work. Robert Hobson described aspects of supervision thus: "we cannot report to others what we do not know has happened" (1985). I think this sums up the nature of the task in hand.

If you would like to book an intial appointment please contact me either by phone or email: 0113 262 5783 or kristal@kristalclark.com