We are a small counselling practice in a comfortable, location just outside Tunbridge Wells with private parking. We work online and face-to-face with people struggling to tolerate what life is asking them to deal with. All our counsellors share the view that any problem is legitimate and that every person is worthy of help. We have a range of counselling skills and will adapt to the nature of the problems we encounter.
Kerry is a BACP Integrative counsellor and artist. Currently working online and doing select home visits with those over 18, she is available to discuss any issue. At ActiveListener we are fundamentally humanistic in our approach to counselling which means that we believe that people have an instinctive drive to want to grow themselves and that each of us has resources within us to do this with the right conditions.
Counselling is where those conditions can be created. Breathing techniques are the easy bit. If the source or cause of your distress or unhelpful behaviour feels bigger than your capacity to make change, then counselling can help.
Kerry is a BACP Integrative counsellor and artist. Currently working online and doing select home visits with those over 18, she is available to discuss any issue. At ActiveListener we are fundamentally humanistic in our approach to counselling which means that we believe that people have an instinctive drive to want to grow themselves and that each of us has resources within us to do this with the right conditions.
Counselling is where those conditions can be created. Breathing techniques are the easy bit. If the source or cause of your distress or unhelpful behaviour feels bigger than your capacity to make change, then counselling can help.
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Choosing a therapist can be one of the biggest blocks when we start therapy, and so it can also become first steps in learning to trust yourself and in taking responsibility for yourself.
How do I know if I'm choosing the right person?
What if something doesn't feel right?.I wonder if anyone can truly know that beforehand, and perhaps it's ok to try and then to change your mind.
My invitation to you is to find these things out together.
We can learn where you want to get to and then - if you still want to go - we can take whatever route feels safe and feels right for you.
How do I know if I'm choosing the right person?
What if something doesn't feel right?.I wonder if anyone can truly know that beforehand, and perhaps it's ok to try and then to change your mind.
My invitation to you is to find these things out together.
We can learn where you want to get to and then - if you still want to go - we can take whatever route feels safe and feels right for you.
I will welcome you from first contact with warmth and respect and listen to you without judgement.
There are no expectations of you to be anything other than yourself.
Together we will develop a therapeutic relationship which will offer you a safe and calm environment to explore your thoughts, feelings and behaviours that are impacting your present and safely reflect and examine past experiences that may be impacting you in your life today.
I am trained and work with a Humanistic integrative approach to therapy.
There are no expectations of you to be anything other than yourself.
Together we will develop a therapeutic relationship which will offer you a safe and calm environment to explore your thoughts, feelings and behaviours that are impacting your present and safely reflect and examine past experiences that may be impacting you in your life today.
I am trained and work with a Humanistic integrative approach to therapy.
Change can be daunting, especially if our best efforts no longer seem to work.
No one likes to feel stuck, or lost or out of options as to how to move forward.
Grief wears many faces.
Relationships can become challenging, worn down or simply no longer viable.
Our self-talk can be unhealthy and we can't fathom the true cause.
We might have a story of trauma we have ignored, forgotten or simply don't know how to approach or overcome.
Treatment starts with reaching out for help.
As an integrative humanistic counsellor I am here to support you.
No one likes to feel stuck, or lost or out of options as to how to move forward.
Grief wears many faces.
Relationships can become challenging, worn down or simply no longer viable.
Our self-talk can be unhealthy and we can't fathom the true cause.
We might have a story of trauma we have ignored, forgotten or simply don't know how to approach or overcome.
Treatment starts with reaching out for help.
As an integrative humanistic counsellor I am here to support you.
Anger is often thought of as a bad and negative, wild and violent, but it can be a normal, every day, even useful human emotion and many of us feel it frequently and on different scales.
Imagine that door that always sticks that is so annoying, when you pull harder it might be your anger that motivates you and you successfully open it (but maybe not fix it!).
When your young child runs towards the street and you yell out 'STOP!', although this might be shocking for the child, being angry might have saved them.
Imagine that door that always sticks that is so annoying, when you pull harder it might be your anger that motivates you and you successfully open it (but maybe not fix it!).
When your young child runs towards the street and you yell out 'STOP!', although this might be shocking for the child, being angry might have saved them.
Anxiety and panic Attacks affect at least 1 in 10 of us at some point in our lives and can occur only once or reoccur for years.
Although panic attacks can feel overwhelming and as though something worryingly bad is happening to us they are not dangerous and we do not need to go to hospital and usually pass within 5-20 minutes.
Counselling can help find methods of managing panic attacks while we explore where your anxiety may come from.
These sensations are the same as we experience in threatening situations and trigger our fight, flight or freeze mechanism as adrenalin is pumped through our body.
Although panic attacks can feel overwhelming and as though something worryingly bad is happening to us they are not dangerous and we do not need to go to hospital and usually pass within 5-20 minutes.
Counselling can help find methods of managing panic attacks while we explore where your anxiety may come from.
These sensations are the same as we experience in threatening situations and trigger our fight, flight or freeze mechanism as adrenalin is pumped through our body.
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