Michael | Therapist

Introduction

Stress has become common in our age, including stress associated with chronic disease or cancer. I can suggest a strategy for clarifying circumstances and people that cause stress and then consider applying practical techniques for reducing feelings of stress until the cause has been addressed and eliminated or minimized.

Almost everyone experiences difficulties in relationships at some stage in their lives and I provide professional counselling for adults, adolescents, and parents of young children in that situation. I have experience applying long-term programs of cognitive-emotive-behaviour therapy to help adults overcome the deleterious effects of childhood sexual abuse and develop self-assertive self-esteem after experiencing emotional abuse by their parents during childhood.

Clarifying difficulties or circumstances which trouble or distress us always helps us manage our situation to our advantage.

I offer confidential empathetic opportunities for people to explain their difficulties or circumstances and then guide them to clarify the issues and explore practical strategies and alternatives for working through these challenges and moving towards satisfactory resolutions. I also have experience using hypnosis with teenagers to help identify repressed origins of emotional trauma.

I have a wealth of life experience, having worked as a teacher, engineer, lecturer, research worker, child-care worker, representative of a hire company, and psychologist.

I also have experience as a father successfully guiding my hyperactive son to successful adulthood, more than 30 years managing the ups and downs of marriage, and several years gaining experience as an enthusiastic but non-interfering father-in-law and grandfather.

regards Michael