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Meet our Team
Marianne Downie
From those days to the present, I feel that I have not stopped learning and exploring the field of work that I love. I have done further training in Gestalt, attachment theory, relational and biographical therapies. I trained as a supervisor 12 years ago and have a number of supervisees in my practice. I have held senior manager roles for over thirty years including being a Clinical Lead and feel privileged to be able to bring my knowledge to my current role.
I have come to this role with a great deal of optimism that we can provide the very best of therapy, counselling and coaching in an environment that supports the clients as well therapists to achieve their goals. Part of my role involves recruiting the widest range of therapists with excellent training behind them who also share the vision.
In service of the client, we will offer a free 20-minute conversation on the phone or face to face to work out with them what type of therapy would be most supportive to them and to match them with an appropriately trained therapist.
Philippa Westmacott
She provides a safe, non-judgemental and confidential space for clients to understand themselves and their situation better. Philippa uses a Transactional Analysis theory and model, integrated with others to support clients in an individual and therapeutic way. This helps clients make sense of why and how they feel and behave the way they do.
Philippa has experience of working therapeutically with children and adolescents using a range of creative media including play, sand tray, story and art. This has included work in primary school settings and with teenagers in a charity setting.
Through her training and therapeutic work with adults in charities and GPs, Philippa has observed many clients not knowing what is causing their emotional pain, confusion or behaviours. Using a person centred approach Philippa has used enabled clients to better understand themselves and enable and empower them to live their life, the way they want.
Philippa is passionate about the role therapy can play in helping with current difficulties as well as issues associated with early life experiences and its effectiveness in supporting a range of presenting problems. Philippa has experience of short term and longer term client work.
Laura Keay
Transactional Analysis acknowledges the value of the therapeutic relationship, while Person-Centred puts emphasis on it in the moment. What really matters is the relationship created between the client and the therapist. Laura’s job is to facilitate, support and encourage the personal growth in clients using empathy, congruence, and unconditional positive regard. The aim is for clients to be able to increase their own autonomy and to find their own answers to their problems.
Laura works with adults and has a specialism in children and young people. Laura has worked with the following presentations: LGBTQ+, self-harming, sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect, bereavement, grief and loss, anxiety, OCD, ASD, ADHD, peer relations, stress, social anxiety, exam pressure, harmful eating, self-esteem issues, LAC, divorce, bullying and family issues.
Correna Dcaccia
It was her experience of developing clinical governance for a national mental health organisation (providing Private, EAP and NHS services), that inspired Correna’s commitment to the development of safe and effective services with quality embedded in their culture. As a member of the clinical leadership team, she ensures that policies and procedures meet professional and legal requirements and prioritises the needs of clients at the heart of best practice. Correna also appreciates the significant impact of the environment and context of service provision, in enabling practitioners to engage in their best work. Lorem ipsum.
In addition to her management role, Correna’s practice as an integrative therapist and supervisor are central to promoting the highest standards of client satisfaction and service provision. Correna enjoys the hands on role of facilitating learning, development and growth in all aspects of her contributions to The Harlow. She believes that collaboration makes the best use of expertise and providing non-judgmental consultation benefits clients, staff and the whole service.
Natascha Gonnermann
However, a move to North Yorkshire, a new baby and still running a family business initially saw work in this field put on hold.
Time away from the profession, personal reflection and life as a new mum sparked a desire to understand and learn more about the use of therapy with children and young people, leading to training specifically in this field, while at the same time re-training with adults. Natascha’s training at The Northern Guild followed the principles and values of the Humanistic Integrative approach while integrating the principles, values and theories from the Person-Centred approach and Transactional Analysis. A varied career where relationships have always been integral to achieving positive outcomes, working therapeutically in this way is a natural extension of this. Putting the relationship between client and therapist at the heart of the work and treating her clients as individuals sits at the core of how Natascha works. Being able to draw on models and theories specific to the clients’ issues allows her to offer a bespoke service and work with her clients to meet their individual needs, encourage realising their personal autonomy and support facilitation of their desired outcomes.
In the final stages of an MSc in Psychotherapy, Natascha is passionate about not only her work, but also further personal development and continuing education. Having worked with a varied range of client presentations she works with whatever her clients come with, all the while remaining mindful of and open to clients additional needs and signposting on if this would be in her clients best interests.
Sarah Wilson
With experience of working with young adults, adults, and the elderly, she currently offers both short- and long-term therapy to individuals age 18+. She has experience of working with a wide range of mental health issues.
With a strong belief that there is no single approach that can treat each client for all situations, Sarah works holistically as an integrative therapist, viewing the individual as a whole: focusing on their mental, physical and emotional needs. Integrative therapy incorporates major schools of therapy such as humanistic theory / client centred theory, Psycho-analytic / dynamic theory such as Transactional Analysis, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness.
Through integrative work individuals can consider the role of past relational and emotional experiences, and how they contribute to recurrent patterns of thinking, behaving and feeling in life. As an individual develops greater awareness of their world and relationships within it, they become empowered, develop a greater sense of self-awareness and encourage healthier interactions with others. Sarah aims to equip her clients with tools to meet their goals and to maintain positive self-growth.
Sarah is registered with the regulatory bodies of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
Philippa Westmacott
Using a person centred approach Philippa has used enabled clients to better understand themselves and enable and empower them to live their life, the way they want.
Philippa is passionate about the role therapy can play in helping with current difficulties as well as issues associated with early life experiences and its effectiveness in supporting a range of presenting problems. Philippa has experience of short term and longer term client work.
Caroline Smith
Caroline’s approach is Integrative meaning she incorporates different theoretical models into her work depending on what will best fit for her clients. Most commonly used are Relational, Psychodynamic, CBT, Transactional Analysis and Short Term Solution Focussed.
Caroline’s approach incorporates a fundamental belief in the core self which might have been negatively impacted by life events both recent and past. Caroline believes that whilst we cannot change such events we can seek to find a way to live more peacefully with them in the present. This is achieved through learning to trust our own process of change and growth leading to a lasting and sustainable improved sense of wellbeing.
Kirsty Grant
She is trained in relational therapy, transactional analysis, cognitive behavioural therapy, and trauma-focused therapy and uses concepts and techniques from these approaches collaboratively with each client to ensure they receive a tailored approach best suited to their individual needs and goals.
Kirsty works with a wide range of client experiences, including depression and low mood, trauma, anxiety, stress, relationship difficulties, bereavement and loss, life change and transition, exploration of gender and sexuality, confidence and self-esteem. She works with a diverse range of clients and is particularly experienced in working with young adults.
Gordon Bethell
Qualified in Psychology and Coaching, Gordon runs the Coaching teams and is responsible for supporting executives, organisations and private clients across a wide range of development opportunities, from supporting younger people struggling with interviews, career direction and choices, middle and senior management unsure of their next steps or struggling with the promotion ladder, right through to Business Owners who need that third party intervention to take their business to the next level of growth or scale.
Gordon Bethell
Gordon’s business career has allowed him to experience, fast paced growth and the challenges of scaling up, fundamental re-structure in the face of changing client horizon’s, acquisitions and sale, both aborted and successful, executive level recruitment successes’ and challenges and knows that business ownership can be testing without confidential and trusted partners who have walked the very same path to talk to.
Andrea Bethell
More recently she has combined a passion for interiors with her passion for nutrition, as owner of a healthy food cafe, based in the business area of Leeds.
With Diplomas in Nutrition and Coaching, Andrea is committed to healthy living and understands the powerful relationship between eating well, lifestyle choices and feeling good.
Sam Craven
Thriving in reactive environments, with the ability to handle multiple projects. Organised, dependable and highly efficient with creative awareness and an eye for detail. Sam’s passion comes from delivering the very best for our clients, making sure every step of the client’s journey is considered.
Patricio Maglio
Patricio was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina), a city renowned for its wide access to psychotherapy, bringing with him a clear sense on how therapy could be useful and incorporated into everyday life. His philosophy is based on personal growth – he will help you explore your present challenges and face transitions with a renewed sense of awareness. As an integrative therapist, he will call on diverse theories, philosophies and experiences to aid your process.
Susannah Jaeger
Susannah graduated with a BSc (Hons) Psychology in 1991 and embarked on counselling training in 2015. Prior to that she worked in Primary education and also as a piano teacher.
Susannah is an integrative therapist, meaning an integration of various different approaches according to what is needed, from CBT to Psychodynamic. She is a relational therapist at core, with an emphasis placed on a nurturing, warm, empathic non-judgemental therapeutic environment. Her core model is TA which provides a useful basis for understanding relationships and finding a better way forward. Susannah works developmentally across a wide range of mental health issues, often long term and at depth and with a trauma informed approach.
Julia Henry
Julia is an Integrative Psychotherapist, which means she combines different therapeutic techniques to best suit the individual needs of her clients. She believes that every client is different, with unique life experiences. She therefore offers a therapeutic approach which is bespoke and one which she works collaboratively with her clients to envisage. Depending on what could be helpful, she might suggest a relational, humanistic, psychodynamic or cognitive behavioural approach.
Julia offers her clients a safe and confidential space to explore their thoughts, emotions and difficulties. She helps them to make sense of their difficulties and better understand themselves. She helps them to gain insight into their experiences and behaviours, find ways of coping and make the changes they wish to have in their lives.
Central to Julia’s approach is that she accepts her clients for who they are, believing that everyone should be able to access the help and support they need. She offers compassion, warmth and respect to all her clients and enjoys working with clients of all ages and backgrounds.
Julia can offer therapy for those seeking help with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, family issues, feelings of aloneness, bereavement and loss, shame and acceptance, physical health and illness, fear of death and the search for meaning.
As a relational therapist, Julia believes that our thoughts, emotions and behaviours are directly related to our relationships and that most mental health difficulties are symptoms of some unsatisfactory relationships, both with others and with ourselves. She spends time with clients looking at key relationships, both from their everyday life now, as well as important relationships and experiences from their past and explores the impact this is having on them now. She works with clients to help them to navigate towards a better way of relating to themselves, others and to areas of their lives they may be finding challenging.
Nancy Hill
Nancy believes we all have an innate creative drive and desire for personal expression which can take many forms. As a dramatherapist she uses story, movement and imagination to help people become more themselves, work through any past or current issues and to move towards their goals.
Nancy recognises that unlocking creativity can take time, so the specifics of how she works will always be led by the client.
Nancy trained as a Sesame Drama and Movement Therapist in 2008 and has subsequently worked in a variety of areas including, but not exclusively:
Elders in Residential and Care settings
Autistic Children
Bereaved Children & Families
Adults with Learning Difficulties
Children and young people in private practice
NHS Staff in Paediatric Departments
Families in a Children’s Hospice setting
Nancy has a wealth of experience working with bereavement, and the grieving process, including working with adults and children following a suicide in the family.
Jonathan
The therapeutic process can be unique, challenging, transformative, sometimes very profound and is unlike any other relationship in our everyday lives, it offers an opportunity to reflect upon aspects of our existence which are hard to catch hold of. I believe in our human potential for ongoing meaningful growth and development as we journey through our lives, and appreciate the need, at times, for a companion on the road.
Having worked in Horticulture for over 30 years, I often think of the counselling experience in gardening terms. It being a safe nurturing space, full of colour, where we can seek out our hidden shadier corners, our weedy patches in need of some care and attention, and the areas where we struggle to grow and need guidance and support. We’ll spend time exploring and digging, examining what we find, sometimes pruning and sowing seeds for future growth.
‘The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness’, Carl Jung wrote ‘as an acorn grows into an oak’.
Shan
You may feel total devastation over an affair being revealed, be in a place of constant fighting or bickering or perhaps you feel intense loneliness, anxiety or despair. Perhaps you struggle to communicate, have sex and intimacy problems, or fear you’re growing apart.
In couples therapy Shan will coach you into speaking to each other in a way where you have safe conversations that are free of blame, or criticism which is a pattern many couples get stuck in. So this really helps each person feel heard and understood in a way that’s not been possible for them to do at home.
Through having safe conversations Shan will help you to work through all the core issues in your relationship so you can repair what has happened, come back into connection and get the love you really want.
Areas of interest: Conflict, Communication difficulties, Separation, Divorce, Affairs, Same Sex Relationships, Co-Parenting, Fertility issues, Loneliness, Insecurity, Autism, ADHD, Getting Married, New Relationships.
Shan uses Imago Couples Therapy, CBT, Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, Therapeutic Coaching and Somatic Practices in her work.
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Carla (Therapist)
- Understand more about themselves, their choices and their identity
- Recognise patterns and behaviours that may be unhelpful to them
- Acknowledge losses and changes in life that are difficult
Carla worked with Cruse Bereavement Care in London and then graduated from Roehampton University with a master’s degree in Dramatherapy. She has subsequently obtained an Advanced Diploma in Executive Coaching from the AoEC and most recently a diploma in Creative Arts Supervision from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
I began my working life in the theatre, then moved to the corporate business world in learning and development for 18 years; alongside working as a counsellor and subsequently as a dramatherapist. Ultimately, I support people deal with great changes in their lives, and to do this I utilise creativity where possible, always led by the client’.
Carla (Coach)
At the heart of her work is a belief that we are all capable of changing our behaviours, and thinking patterns, given the right environment, investment of time and support. Integrity is important to her, and she encourages honesty and commitment in all sessions.
The relationship built between her, and her clients, is key to successfully meeting the client’s goals.
Business Experience
Carla has over 20 years’ experience in corporate learning and development, working on projects in both the UK, Europe, and the US and Asia. This provided exposure to a culturally diverse work-force at all levels of management, from first line supervisors to senior leaders.
Key areas of delivery have included:
Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Change Management, Skills Training, Development Planning & Performance Management
Training, Qualifications and Accreditations
Carla graduated from the RSAMD, and Glasgow University with a degree in Dramatic Art; Roehampton University with a master’s degree in Dramatherapy, then subsequently obtained an Advanced Diploma in Executive Coaching from the AoEC, and most recently a diploma in Creative Arts Supervision from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
She is accredited in Belbin, Myers Briggs Type Indicator Steps I and II, Voices © and other 360 Profiling, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).
Coaching Approach
Carla’s coaching practice is based on 3 concepts:
Enabling Change, Integrity and Creativity.
Carla aims to
- Build a strong relationship with the client and create an environment that allows space to explore, challenge and help identify any limiting assumptions, both towards their teams, objectives and themselves..
- Help increase self-awareness, understand motivations and drivers, and recognise behavioural patterns.
- Enable the client gain clarity of requirements and organisational drivers to then create plans to set expectations that achieve success and excellence
- Hold the client accountable for their actions in order to facilitate change.
Her training in dramatherapy allows her to effectively introduce creative techniques to support people in innovative ways. This helps implement deeper thinking, and see different perspectives, in order to ensure the most effective outcome.
Nina
Nina always knew she wanted to be a Psychologist, working particularly within forensics services, intrigued by the degree to which people become marginalised and the way society contributes to this process. Nina’s work has involved working within HM Prison Service, the NHS and educational and residential provisions. Most recently Nina has worked as a Consultant Forensic Psychologist in the NHS across community adult and children’s mental health services. Nina’s experience has taught her that environmental safety, not created by structural or materialistic assets, but by quality relationships, fosters a desire in the most disconnected of beings, to connect to others in a meaningful way; a way that allows that individual to turn towards theirs, and other’s distress, and take appropriate compassionate action to do something about it.
In addition to the provision of therapy, Nina’s work has equipped her with the knowledge, experience and training required to engage, assess and help young people and adults for whom trauma, neurodevelopmental needs, mental health conditions and environmental and relational instability, are actively impacting their lives.
From Nina’s experience working within a range of public sector organisations, Nina understands only too well, the impact our societal systems can have on individuals and their families. Ultimately, Nina is an advocate for compassionate care and trauma informed approaches, which is why these factors sit at the core of her clinical practice, and personal morals, values and ethics.
Rachel
I am a trained Coach with an emphasis on transformational and wellbeing coaching. I look at the whole person and like to offer bespoke sessions drawing on both my medical and coaching knowledge to get the best outcome for the client. I have a special interest in women’s health in particular menopause and a keen interest in lifestyle medicine. I am undertaking further training in Sexology.
I will be running pilates programmes which involve health coaching.
I will also be offering weight management and prescriptions where appropriate.
Jo
Jo is passionate about helping people to find ways to make sense of and manage painful and complex thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and a way out of the traps of psychological difficulties. Jo is qualified in the use of EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing) therapy, an evidence-based approach effective in helping people recover from trauma, and other distressing life experiences.
Jo’s warm and compassionate approach builds a trusting and therapeutic rapport to work in partnership with clients and is able to use this space to collaborate a formulation of the client’s difficulties. Maintaining a person-centred care, individuals feel empowered with the direction and pace that their therapy takes to achieve their treatment goals.
Jo strives to be responsive to the needs of clients and often draws upon a number of approaches to inform her work including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy and Motivational Interviewing.
Mandy
More recently Mandy trained in environmentally based therapy and now offers outdoor therapy. Working outdoors might involve walking, exploring an area or sitting in one place. For many people, engaging in therapy outdoors can feel easier to connect with.
Research has shown the benefits of spending time in nature, and exploring our body senses for information about how we feel can be revealing of our mental state. It can enable the identification of themes that we may otherwise be unaware of, such as change, life cycles, loss and renewal.
Opening up to aspects of nature can be inspiring and show us how much we miss out on when our focus is limited to the activities of the mind. Outdoors it seems so much easier to move out of the busy mind space that we usually occupy and into a more balanced appreciation of mind and body.
As well as these benefits, there is also value in the movement of walking: of being able to walk vigorously or taking a slower, more mindful pace, in planning a route, or just letting the feet lead us, of being alongside another person, having someone accompany us very literally on a journey.
Mandy’s focus whether work takes place inside or outdoors is on change and how this can happen in a sustainable way. We seek therapy because we want things to change. Understanding and exploring conditioned, familiar responses to events in our lives can help us to identify what needs to be done differently. Change happens on multiple levels and whilst it is important to think through, understand and feel our emotions and responses, it is also important to be able to try something new, to meet our fears head-on and take a risk. To step out of our comfort zone and make ourselves vulnerable. This intention can bring clarity, drive, focus and a newfound passion for life and all its uncertainties.
Sarah
She specialises in harnessing the power of the unconscious mind to help you with anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship and work issues, grief, loss, unwanted habits, life changes and mind/body disorders such as IBS.
Her practice is supportive, future focused and non-judgmental. Sarah works with adults, and young people from the age of 14, with all genders and orientations.
Working with compassion and optimism, she likes to bring humour and a sense of buoyancy to the therapy room.
Jane
She has a great sense of adventure and loves being outdoors exploring the countryside with her two mad golden retrievers and spends the summer taking groups down the Zambezi river, Zambia in canoes, wild camping under the African stars to raise fund to support wildlife conservation and education of human/wildlife conflict.
Sarah
She specialises in harnessing the power of the unconscious mind to help you with anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship and work issues, grief, loss, unwanted habits, life changes and mind/body disorders such as IBS.
Her practice is supportive, future focused and non-judgmental. Sarah works with adults, and young people from the age of 14, with all genders and orientations.
Working with compassion and optimism, she likes to bring humour and a sense of buoyancy to the therapy room.
Anna
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Teresa Barron
These treatments work on every level – body, mind, emotion and spirit – a truly holistic approach.
Teresa practices in Leeds, Oxford and Harrogate.
RGN, RDHA, QTLS, MABCH, MCAHyp, MCHP, CNHC registered
Teresa offers the following therapies and can advise which would be most beneficial for you:
• Advanced EMMETT Technique
• Holistic and Clinical Aromatherapy
• Clinical Reflexology
• Reflexology Lymph Drainage (RLD)
• ScarWorks and McLoughlin Scar Tissue Release® (MSTR)
• Clinical Hypnotherapy
• Indian Head Massage
• Flower Remedies – Bach and Australian Bush
• Reiki Master Practitioner
• Thermo-auricular Therapy (ear candling)
A registered nurse by background, she has a rich set of skills that have consolidated her practice, giving her the knowledge and appreciation of which discipline or mix of disciplines can be most beneficial for your condition and situation.
Teresa specialises in treatments for pain-relief, to increase function and range of movement. Many clients see her for regular treatments for ongoing management of chronic physical symptoms, stress-management, so benefitting from the deeply relaxing, effective and nurturing qualities of her treatments.
She is passionate about working effectively with clients/patients, collaborating with other professionals and sharing knowledge. A qualified teacher, EMM-Tech tutor she has designed and teaches a special studies module for medical students at Leeds University School of Medicine.
Vicky Richardson
With a background of 20 years as an educator, she has a passion for sharing nutritional knowledge to empower people on their own health journeys. She helps women in their 40s and 50s struggling to get relief from digestive issues at a time of hormonal change.
Sally Fryer
Bioresonance Therapy –
Bioresonance is a frequency therapy working at fine tuning all the frequencies within the body. Different areas of the body resonate at different frequencies. External factors can cause these frequencies to be out of tune (think of a piano with some of the keys out of tune). Electromagnetic pollution, global geopathic stress, pathogens (bacteria, viruses, parasites & fungi), & environmental toxins can all cause frequencies to fall out of tune. Sally uses a German medical machine to test through all of the above and find out the burdens on the system, eliminate them, and discuss lifestyle to try and keep the burdens at bay.
There are many different approaches when it comes to Bioresonance. The above “cause-oriented” approach is extremely effective. However, there are also hundreds of pre-set programs within the Bioresonance machine. These are for all the systems and organs within the body, so the complete physiology can be covered (literally down to a cellular level). There are also corresponding pre-set pathology programs for people who already have a medical diagnosis. Not only is physiology covered, but there are many psyche programs covering everything from stress reduction to depression to trauma. Sally can also test to see if specific vitamins , minerals (and other vital substances), Schuessler Salts and Bach Flower remedies are helpful to the body. It’s also possible to bring specific supplements to Sally and she can check whether they create a burden on the body or are helpful.
The Rayonex machine also has a global test kit with over 800 potential allergens/intolerance substances. Sally can test through these for you and work at desensitising the body to them.
During treatment Sally energises water and homeopathic tablets with specific frequencies for the patient to take in-between treatments, hence continuing the healing effects.
The possibilities with bioresonance are immense and it can be an extremely powerful therapy to not only help regain health, but also to maintain it. Sally has many clients who take regular treatments to ensure that the potential causes of illness are eliminated. It’s a really empowering and positive way of looking after yourself.
Bowen Technique –
The Bowen Technique is a relatively new therapy that originated in the latter half of the 20thcentury in Australia, developed by its incredibly clever founder Tom Bowen. Sally trained with the College of Bowen Studies in 2002 and has completed many specific workshops since then (spinal, shoulder, TMJ, 10 day human dissection course etc).
Bowen doesn’t involve any kind of manipulation as you would expect in chiropractic or osteopathy. It is a very gentle set of light rolling moves over very specific points on the body. The easiest way to explain how it works is to describe it as raising an alarm bell for the brain to realise that it needs to realign and recalibrate the body. Bowen is all about triggering a self-heal within the body, not only on a musculoskeletal level, but also within the organs as well due to a detox taking place following treatment. Bowen is very relaxing and helps to reduce stress within the body. It’s also extremely helpful for people suffering with anxiety and stress.
Sally has had some amazing results with people over the years and continues to have a staunch Bowen client following. Again, it’s a wonderful maintenance treatment to have monthly or quarterly to help prevent musculoskeletal issues in particular.
Gut Health & DNA nutrigenetics
Sally mentors people using a tried and tested 3 week gut reset program. This is designed by doctors and scientists to kickstart regaining good gut health. With Sally’s guidance and the additional help of a Whatsapp support group, the results that people are seeing can truly be life changing.
The gut microbiome is strongly linked to both physical and mental health. It affects our hormones, digestive health, mental health, joint health and also how much energy we have. By creating a healthy microbiome many issues and symptoms that people experience are eliminated.
The DNA nutrigenetics work is carried out by an Austrian company to highlight which areas of the body need help, what foods are helpful (and those that are harmful or of no benefit), and even what body type you have in terms of the exercise you are built for. You are presented with a 200 page ‘Body Bible’ that is compiled by screening your DNA. It is a tool for life because your DNA never changes, so this can be taken at any age and is something you can refer back to when you want or need.
Emma Powell
Offering a compassionate approach with a commitment to hope, connection and engagement, Emma will work with clients to identify their needs and offer a safe therapeutic relationship in which to develop understanding and support positive change.
Emma’s extensive experience with Cognitive Therapy is enhanced by knowledge and practice of other treatment modalities enabling her to provide an individualised treatment approach, directed specifically at the client’s needs, goals and aspirations.
Whilst working with clients to identify and address specific mental health needs and diagnoses for the most part; Emma is also a keen advocate for therapeutic sessions to support ongoing mental wellness and is strong believer in the power of nature within therapeutic change, currently working towards developing her skills further in this specific area.
Katie Hampton
Katie trained at Matrix College of Counselling & Psychotherapy & works with adults. She went onto train at the Centre for Counselling & Psychotherapy in London & has a diploma in Transpersonal Couple counselling & has also completed training at The Tavistock Relations & has a certificate IAPT Couple Therapy for Depression.
Katie has also completed numerous trainings to teach Mindfulness for individual therapy, Mindful Eating & the Mindfulness based Stress reduction course and incorporates Mindfulness into her practice when working with clients.
Katie offers a confidential, safe, and therapeutic space where clients can explore the difficulties that are troubling them from their past and present. Through her experience on a personal level and working with clients she has observed that once we become more aware of our inner world, our emotions, sensations, thoughts, and behaviours the release of negative energy that has developed over time begins to take place, allowing for personal growth and the choice to make changes if we so wish to.
As a couple therapist she works in a way for the couple to have greater understanding of one another, helping them to resolve communication difficulties & to work through the issues they are experiencing in their relationship.
Becky Rodrigues
What does Becky offer?
I offer you a safe space to explore & deepen your understanding of yourself, your experiences, your patterns & your relationship with others & the world around you. With over 12 years of experience working in the psychology field in the public & private sector with people from all walks of life, I have a unique & powerful approach which I call ‘The Triple R Method’ – Release, Reprogramme & Re-align. I help you to Release the experiences, thoughts, feelings, fears & patterns that are limiting you… Reprogramme your beliefs, so that you believe in yourself & your potential & Re-align your choices, so that you are living as the most authentic, confident & empowered version of you.
What do I bring?
I combine my own lived experience of anxiety & low self-esteem, as well as integrating psychology, neuroscience, coaching & energetics. I intuitively weave in many tools, teachings & perspectives depending on what you need at the time. I work in a trauma informed way & incorporate inner child healing work which means understanding your current struggles in the context of your lived experience, enabling you to process past experiences, whilst also helping you to create a future that is in alignment with you & what you really want. My approach is client-led, none-judgemental, safe, collaborative, supportive, nurturing & at times challenging. I believe this approach, combined with your commitment & devotion are at the core of positive change for you.
Gabby Palmer
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Anna Wright
As a key member of our team, Anna collaborates closely with our Clinical Director to conduct thorough initial consultations with clients. Her empathetic approach and keen listening skills help her identify the needs and requirements of each individual. With a deep understanding of our diverse roster of therapists, coaches, and complementary therapists, Anna ensures that every client is matched with the most suitable professional to guide them.
Beyond her direct involvement with clients, Anna works closely with our Operations Director and alongside the Client Care team. Anna’s meticulous attention to detail also ensures that our policies and procedures are consistently adhered to, maintaining the highest standards of care and professionalism.
With her education, experience, and dedication, Anna Wright is an integral part of The Harlow. Her passion for psychology, combined with her compassionate and organised approach, make her an invaluable asset every individual who seeks our services.
Darren Gallagher
I am a humanistic, ‘integrative’ practitioner, so I use different methods and relational approaches to develop a warm, friendly relationship based on individual needs, respect and acceptance: In other words – ‘I’m Ok – You’re Ok’. I use Transactional Analysis (Berne) which helps us to understand how the personality is constructed and how people communicate and relate to one another.
I believe every child is a unique individual and my counselling philosophy involves a child-centred, collaborative approach. I feel the ‘therapeutic relationship’ lies at the heart of effective counselling. The core conditions of empathy, congruence, and positive regard, along with Virginia Axlines’ principles of play therapy, help clients to feel safe and contained, whilst expressing feelings and communicating their lived experience.
I have specialist experience of working with loss, separation pre-bereavement and bereavement; stress; anxiety; attachment; low mood; self-esteem; grief; anger; domestic abuse; care experienced children and young people; adoption; neurodiversity; gender; sexuality and relationships. I have an interest in EMDR; Mindfulness; Art therapy; Imagery and Metaphor; Stories and Object Relations Theory.
Whatever the issue yourself or your child are facing, my hope is that you will allow me to walk alongside with compassion, empathy, and care as we make sense of a difficult situation or life event. Through counselling and creative approaches, we’ll build a safe, therapeutic relationship, so you feel heard and valued and reach new understandings and meaning.
Sara Caswell
Drawing on the principles of Transactional Analysis theory and integrating other therapeutic models, Sara provides individualized support tailored to each client’s needs. By exploring their thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, clients can uncover the underlying reasons behind their actions and develop strategies for positive change.
Sara’s expertise extends to working with children, adolescents utilising various creative mediums such as play, sand tray, storytelling, and art. She has worked in many primary and secondary school settings, alongside a team of multi-disciplinary professionals.
Having worked extensively with children with neurodiversity’s, Sara has observed that many clients struggle to identify the root causes of their emotional pain, confusion, or problematic behaviours. Through a person-centred approach, she guides her clients towards self-awareness and empowerment, enabling them to live life on their own terms.
Passionate about the transformative potential of therapy, Sara recognizes its effectiveness in addressing both current difficulties and issues related to early life experiences. She is experienced in both short-term and long-term client work, adapting her approach to suit the unique needs of each individual.
With her gentle and patient demeanour, Sara instils confidence within her clients and supports them on their journey towards personal growth and wellbeing.
Alison Stead
A calm and empathetic therapist, Alison aims to create a warm, non-judgemental, and safe environment in which to support clients to work through current difficulties, understand past experiences and enable them to identify and realise their therapeutic goals.
A support volunteer with national cancer and bereavement charities, Alison has experience of working with anxiety, bereavement, bullying, cancer, depression, grief, loss, low self-esteem,relationship difficulties, stress, trauma, and work-related issues.
Alison is training as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor at the Northern Guild specialising in Adults. Following a 25-year corporate career including managerial roles in sales and procurement settings within multinational companies, she decided to retrain, inspired by her own transformative experience of personal therapy.
She lived and worked abroad for 20 years and is fluent in both French and Italian.
Hannah Woodings
Psychodynamic psychotherapy is a form of talk therapy that aims to explore deep-seated emotional and psychological challenges. It can help you to understand and resolve issues related to anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, unresolved trauma and self-destructive patterns of behaviour. Hannah has worked with people with a wide range of emotional difficulties to help them gain insight into unconscious thoughts and patterns.
Sessions with Hannah might involve exploring how your past experiences influence your present feelings, difficulties, and relationships and help you find a way forward. She works as a Time-limited therapist which means 12 weekly sessions. This type of therapy is usually focused on a specific issue or concern within a defined timeframe. Perhaps you are going through a change, having relationship difficulties or experiencing loss and need space to explore your feelings.
Clare Sullivan
Clare has a background in primary teaching and leadership in education which led to her explore how to provide support beyond the classroom. Clare joined the voluntary sector and worked with Barnardo’s to support exploited children, children missing from home and children as victims in the criminal justice process. Following this Clare joined Cleveland Police as a law trainer and then worked across the UK with Barnardo’s as a training consultant sharing her knowledge and experience in safeguarding children.
Lorna Chippindale
Lorna specialises in Leadership, Reinvention and Positive Intelligence (PQ) – mental fitness for all.
Also, a volunteer Re-work Coach – an employability program equipping mid-career professionals to re-enter, or transition within, the workplace. Building motivation, creating momentum, giving tools accountability, collaboration and community. Re-work – The Audacious Foundation
TCA ICF Personal Performance Diploma (with Distinction)
DISC accredited
PQ Coach Positive Intelligence | Building mental fitness for all
Lorna works with individuals from diverse backgrounds, both domestically and internationally and across industries. Working with you over a period with a bespoke package, Lorna is ‘on team’ to support your aims. This could be 1:1 in person, by zoom or while walking.
Specifically coaching for 5 years, Lorna also brings 25+ years of industry experience as an executive within fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and professional services. Lorna recognises the pressures of leaders and stakeholders, the challenges of a business sale and professional transition.
Lorna partners with the ‘leader within’ so clients can have their best-yet years to come!
Sarah Latham
I have a highly integrative and contextual approach to my work. I believe that a strong therapeutic alliance can help a range of children and young people build positive relationships in the therapy room and beyond. I have significant experience working with school-based issues, trauma, attachment, anger, anxiety and emotional dysregulation.
My unconditional positive regard, empathy and sense of humour have been of benefit to a wide range of clients with a variety of needs. I enjoy working creatively with clients and supporting them through their days with practical and achievable strategies which enable them to navigate their way through life’s challenges.
Jodie Edwards
Jodie is training at the Northern Guild specialising in Adult counselling and psychotherapy. She has a wide range of experience of working with anxiety, depression, OCD, addiction, families impacted by other’s addiction issues, relationship issues, bereavement and loss.
Before finding her way into therapy, Jodie has had a varied career in the charity sector, working in fundraising, as a youth worker and as a drug and alcohol worker. Her background is in criminology, offender rehabilitation and the criminal justice system.
Hannah Woodruff
I completed training as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and have provided therapy in the charity sector, my private practice and within the prison service. I went onto be a Clinical Supervisor for crisis text line, Shout.
The Harlow is a supportive and collaborative environment with a wide range of therapists, coaches and well-being professionals who have the experience and knowledge to deliver the highest quality care. We will work with you to understand your needs and provide you with the right person to help you achieve your goals.
Aiveen Smith
I offer evidence-based psychological therapy and coaching tailored to client need. My overarching aim is to help people work through periods of challenge and change. I understand that in times of difficultly, the mental health system can be tough to navigate. I believe passionately that people can recover from the most hard-going of circumstances. I take the view that people are much more than a collection of symptoms or diagnoses. My aim is to help people find hope and optimism during periods of struggle.
My practice is particularly informed by the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Through ACT I believe people can learn to take value led action; ‘to do ‘what matters’, to find meaning and fulfilment even in the most difficult of times.
The majority of my career has been in the public sector, typically working with people with extensive and complex needs who have reached points of crisis. In the last two years my move into private practice has enabled me to explore my passion for more preventative work; helping people to develop the skills and resilience to manage life’s challenges.
INDIVIDUAL ADULTS
Psychotherapeutic Counsellors
Therapist Name: Hannah Woodruff
Therapist Job Title: Clinical Lead & Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
Regulatory Body: MBACP
Qualifications: BSc (hons); PG Cert, PG Dip.
Hannah's Experience & area of expertise:
I am an integrative trauma-informed psychotherapist and counsellor. I work from a strengths based perspective and empower those I work with to create change in their lives.
Whilst completing my Psychology BSc (Hons) Degree I began working in the Mental Health sector supporting people in inpatient care, within the community and within their own homes. I also worked with people who have autism and learning disabilities, young children and the elderly. I enjoy connecting with and learning about people from all backgrounds.
I completed training as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and have provided therapy in the charity sector, my private practice and within the prison service. I went onto be a Clinical Supervisor for crisis text line, Shout.
The Harlow is a supportive and collaborative environment with a wide range of therapists, coaches and well-being professionals who have the experience and knowledge to deliver the highest quality care. We will work with you to understand your needs and provide you with the right person to help you achieve your goals.
Therapist Name: Hannah Woodruff
Therapist Job Title: Clinical Lead & Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
Regulatory Body: MBACP
Qualifications: BSc (hons); PG Cert, PG Dip.
Hannah's Experience & area of expertise:
I am an integrative trauma-informed psychotherapist and counsellor. I work from a strengths based perspective and empower those I work with to create change in their lives.
Whilst completing my Psychology BSc (Hons) Degree I began working in the Mental Health sector supporting people in inpatient care, within the community and within their own homes. I also worked with people who have autism and learning disabilities, young children and the elderly. I enjoy connecting with and learning about people from all backgrounds.
I completed training as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and have provided therapy in the charity sector, my private practice and within the prison service. I went onto be a Clinical Supervisor for crisis text line, Shout.
The Harlow is a supportive and collaborative environment with a wide range of therapists, coaches and well-being professionals who have the experience and knowledge to deliver the highest quality care. We will work with you to understand your needs and provide you with the right person to help you achieve your goals.
Therapist Name: Hannah Woodruff
Therapist Job Title: Clinical Lead & Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
Regulatory Body: MBACP
Qualifications: BSc (hons); PG Cert, PG Dip.
Hannah's Experience & area of expertise:
I am an integrative trauma-informed psychotherapist and counsellor. I work from a strengths based perspective and empower those I work with to create change in their lives.
Whilst completing my Psychology BSc (Hons) Degree I began working in the Mental Health sector supporting people in inpatient care, within the community and within their own homes. I also worked with people who have autism and learning disabilities, young children and the elderly. I enjoy connecting with and learning about people from all backgrounds.
I completed training as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and have provided therapy in the charity sector, my private practice and within the prison service. I went onto be a Clinical Supervisor for crisis text line, Shout.
The Harlow is a supportive and collaborative environment with a wide range of therapists, coaches and well-being professionals who have the experience and knowledge to deliver the highest quality care. We will work with you to understand your needs and provide you with the right person to help you achieve your goals.
Therapist Name: Hannah Woodruff
Therapist Job Title: Clinical Lead & Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
Regulatory Body: MBACP
Qualifications: BSc (hons); PG Cert, PG Dip.
Hannah's Experience & area of expertise:
I am an integrative trauma-informed psychotherapist and counsellor. I work from a strengths based perspective and empower those I work with to create change in their lives.
Whilst completing my Psychology BSc (Hons) Degree I began working in the Mental Health sector supporting people in inpatient care, within the community and within their own homes. I also worked with people who have autism and learning disabilities, young children and the elderly. I enjoy connecting with and learning about people from all backgrounds.
I completed training as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and have provided therapy in the charity sector, my private practice and within the prison service. I went onto be a Clinical Supervisor for crisis text line, Shout.
The Harlow is a supportive and collaborative environment with a wide range of therapists, coaches and well-being professionals who have the experience and knowledge to deliver the highest quality care. We will work with you to understand your needs and provide you with the right person to help you achieve your goals.
Therapist Name: Hannah Woodruff
Therapist Job Title: Clinical Lead & Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
Regulatory Body: MBACP
Qualifications: BSc (hons); PG Cert, PG Dip.
Hannah's Experience & area of expertise:
I am an integrative trauma-informed psychotherapist and counsellor. I work from a strengths based perspective and empower those I work with to create change in their lives.
Whilst completing my Psychology BSc (Hons) Degree I began working in the Mental Health sector supporting people in inpatient care, within the community and within their own homes. I also worked with people who have autism and learning disabilities, young children and the elderly. I enjoy connecting with and learning about people from all backgrounds.
I completed training as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and have provided therapy in the charity sector, my private practice and within the prison service. I went onto be a Clinical Supervisor for crisis text line, Shout.
The Harlow is a supportive and collaborative environment with a wide range of therapists, coaches and well-being professionals who have the experience and knowledge to deliver the highest quality care. We will work with you to understand your needs and provide you with the right person to help you achieve your goals.
Therapist Name: Hannah Woodruff
Therapist Job Title: Clinical Lead & Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
Regulatory Body: MBACP
Qualifications: BSc (hons); PG Cert, PG Dip.
Hannah's Experience & area of expertise:
I am an integrative trauma-informed psychotherapist and counsellor. I work from a strengths based perspective and empower those I work with to create change in their lives.
Whilst completing my Psychology BSc (Hons) Degree I began working in the Mental Health sector supporting people in inpatient care, within the community and within their own homes. I also worked with people who have autism and learning disabilities, young children and the elderly. I enjoy connecting with and learning about people from all backgrounds.
I completed training as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and have provided therapy in the charity sector, my private practice and within the prison service. I went onto be a Clinical Supervisor for crisis text line, Shout.
The Harlow is a supportive and collaborative environment with a wide range of therapists, coaches and well-being professionals who have the experience and knowledge to deliver the highest quality care. We will work with you to understand your needs and provide you with the right person to help you achieve your goals.
Therapist Name: Hannah Woodruff
Therapist Job Title: Clinical Lead & Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
Regulatory Body: MBACP
Qualifications: BSc (hons); PG Cert, PG Dip.
Hannah's Experience & area of expertise:
I am an integrative trauma-informed psychotherapist and counsellor. I work from a strengths based perspective and empower those I work with to create change in their lives.
Whilst completing my Psychology BSc (Hons) Degree I began working in the Mental Health sector supporting people in inpatient care, within the community and within their own homes. I also worked with people who have autism and learning disabilities, young children and the elderly. I enjoy connecting with and learning about people from all backgrounds.
I completed training as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and have provided therapy in the charity sector, my private practice and within the prison service. I went onto be a Clinical Supervisor for crisis text line, Shout.
The Harlow is a supportive and collaborative environment with a wide range of therapists, coaches and well-being professionals who have the experience and knowledge to deliver the highest quality care. We will work with you to understand your needs and provide you with the right person to help you achieve your goals.
Therapist Name: Julia Henry
Therapist Job Title: Integrative Psychotherapist
Regulatory Body: MBACP
Qualifications: BSc (Hons), HE Cert, PG Dip.
Click to read Julia's experience & area of expertise
Julia believes that a trusting relationship between the therapist and the client is fundamental to bringing about positive change and that finding the right therapist is a key part of the healing process.
Before having a career break to bring up her family, Julia was a pharmacist working in NHS primary and secondary care. This developed her interest in mental health and the role of talking therapy as a valid treatment option.
Julia is an Integrative Psychotherapist, which means she combines different therapeutic techniques to best suit the individual needs of her clients. She believes that every client is different, with unique life experiences. She therefore offers a therapeutic approach which is bespoke and one which she works collaboratively with her clients to envisage. Depending on what could be helpful, she might suggest a relational, humanistic, psychodynamic or cognitive behavioural approach.
Julia offers her clients a safe and confidential space to explore their thoughts, emotions and difficulties. She helps them to make sense of their difficulties and better understand themselves. She helps them to gain insight into their experiences and behaviours, find ways of coping and make the changes they wish to have in their lives.
Central to Julia’s approach is that she accepts her clients for who they are, believing that everyone should be able to access the help and support they need. She offers compassion, warmth and respect to all her clients and enjoys working with clients of all ages and backgrounds.
Julia can offer therapy for those seeking help with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, family issues, feelings of aloneness, bereavement and loss, shame and acceptance, physical health and illness, fear of death and the search for meaning.
As a relational therapist, Julia believes that our thoughts, emotions and behaviours are directly related to our relationships and that most mental health difficulties are symptoms of some unsatisfactory relationships, both with others and with ourselves. She spends time with clients looking at key relationships, both from their everyday life now, as well as important relationships and experiences from their past and explores the impact this is having on them now. She works with clients to help them to navigate towards a better way of relating to themselves, others and to areas of their lives they may be finding challenging.
Therapist Name: Julia Henry
Therapist Job Title: Integrative Psychotherapist
Regulatory Body: MBACP
Qualifications: BSc (Hons), HE Cert, PG Dip.
Click to read Julia's experience & area of expertise
Julia believes that a trusting relationship between the therapist and the client is fundamental to bringing about positive change and that finding the right therapist is a key part of the healing process.
Before having a career break to bring up her family, Julia was a pharmacist working in NHS primary and secondary care. This developed her interest in mental health and the role of talking therapy as a valid treatment option.
Julia is an Integrative Psychotherapist, which means she combines different therapeutic techniques to best suit the individual needs of her clients. She believes that every client is different, with unique life experiences. She therefore offers a therapeutic approach which is bespoke and one which she works collaboratively with her clients to envisage. Depending on what could be helpful, she might suggest a relational, humanistic, psychodynamic or cognitive behavioural approach.
Julia offers her clients a safe and confidential space to explore their thoughts, emotions and difficulties. She helps them to make sense of their difficulties and better understand themselves. She helps them to gain insight into their experiences and behaviours, find ways of coping and make the changes they wish to have in their lives.
Central to Julia’s approach is that she accepts her clients for who they are, believing that everyone should be able to access the help and support they need. She offers compassion, warmth and respect to all her clients and enjoys working with clients of all ages and backgrounds.
Julia can offer therapy for those seeking help with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, family issues, feelings of aloneness, bereavement and loss, shame and acceptance, physical health and illness, fear of death and the search for meaning.
As a relational therapist, Julia believes that our thoughts, emotions and behaviours are directly related to our relationships and that most mental health difficulties are symptoms of some unsatisfactory relationships, both with others and with ourselves. She spends time with clients looking at key relationships, both from their everyday life now, as well as important relationships and experiences from their past and explores the impact this is having on them now. She works with clients to help them to navigate towards a better way of relating to themselves, others and to areas of their lives they may be finding challenging.
Therapist Name: Julia Henry
Therapist Job Title: Integrative Psychotherapist
Regulatory Body: MBACP
Qualifications: BSc (Hons), HE Cert, PG Dip.
Click to read Julia's experience & area of expertise
Julia believes that a trusting relationship between the therapist and the client is fundamental to bringing about positive change and that finding the right therapist is a key part of the healing process.
Before having a career break to bring up her family, Julia was a pharmacist working in NHS primary and secondary care. This developed her interest in mental health and the role of talking therapy as a valid treatment option.
Julia is an Integrative Psychotherapist, which means she combines different therapeutic techniques to best suit the individual needs of her clients. She believes that every client is different, with unique life experiences. She therefore offers a therapeutic approach which is bespoke and one which she works collaboratively with her clients to envisage. Depending on what could be helpful, she might suggest a relational, humanistic, psychodynamic or cognitive behavioural approach.
Julia offers her clients a safe and confidential space to explore their thoughts, emotions and difficulties. She helps them to make sense of their difficulties and better understand themselves. She helps them to gain insight into their experiences and behaviours, find ways of coping and make the changes they wish to have in their lives.
Central to Julia’s approach is that she accepts her clients for who they are, believing that everyone should be able to access the help and support they need. She offers compassion, warmth and respect to all her clients and enjoys working with clients of all ages and backgrounds.
Julia can offer therapy for those seeking help with anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, family issues, feelings of aloneness, bereavement and loss, shame and acceptance, physical health and illness, fear of death and the search for meaning.
As a relational therapist, Julia believes that our thoughts, emotions and behaviours are directly related to our relationships and that most mental health difficulties are symptoms of some unsatisfactory relationships, both with others and with ourselves. She spends time with clients looking at key relationships, both from their everyday life now, as well as important relationships and experiences from their past and explores the impact this is having on them now. She works with clients to help them to navigate towards a better way of relating to themselves, others and to areas of their lives they may be finding challenging.
Clinical Lead
Psychotherapeutic Counsellor MBACP
BSc (hons); PG Cert, PG Dip
I am an integrative trauma-informed psychotherapist and counsellor. I work from a strengths based perspective and empower those I work with to create change in their lives.
Whilst completing my Psychology BSc (Hons) Degree I began working in the Mental Health sector supporting people in inpatient care, within the community and within their own homes. I also worked with people who have autism and learning disabilities, young children and the elderly. I enjoy connecting with and learning about people from all backgrounds.
Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
UKCP REGISTERED
I first encountered Transactional analysis when my children started primary school in the village, and I saw a workshop which was an introduction to TA and immediately connected with Eric Bernes theory of IM OK UR OK. This led me to training as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor with the Northern Guild where I was privileged to meet trainers and supervisors who embodied that theory. The training was a challenge, especially since I was working full time in a completely different field as a senior manager.
BACP Accredited Integrative Counsellor
Caroline graduated from York St John University in 2010 with a PG Diploma in Integrative Counselling and achieved BACP Accreditation in 2015. Caroline has twelve years’ experience working with individuals both long and short term in a wide range of settings and with a range of difficulties which include: Abuse, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Bereavement, Bullying, Childhood Issues, Depression, Loss, Low self Esteem, Menopause, Physical Health & Illness, Relationships, Separation & Divorce, Stress, Trauma & Work Related Issues.
Carla Wise – HCPC Registered Dramatherapist and Clinical Supervisor
Carla is an HCPC registered Dramatherapist, Coach and Clinical Supervisor, with over 20 years’ experience of supporting people with grief, change and loss. She creates an atmosphere of warmth, trust and safety, where clients feel supported and more able to share their thoughts freely. Dramatherapy is a unique form of psychotherapy, in which creativity helps clients to see things from a different perspective.
Psychotherapeutic counsellor BACP
Patricio is working towards accreditation as a psychotherapist in the Northern Guild. He works with Humanistic Integrative orientation, calling from Transactional Analysis, Existential and Person-centre approaches.
Patricio decided to train as a psychotherapist following 20 years of corporate life, where he held positions as Finance Director and worked in diverse businesses including The Economist and ASDA.
Counsellor and Psychotherapist
I’m currently completing my diploma in counselling and a diploma in psychotherapy. BA and an MA in Criminology.
Jodie offers a relational integrative approach, influenced by existentialism, attachment theory and Transactional Analysis. She offers a warm, empathetic, safe space for clients to explore and be met where they are, for who they are.
Julia Henry
Integrative Psychotherapist
MBACP
Julia believes that a trusting relationship between the therapist and the client is fundamental to bringing about positive change and that finding the right therapist is a key part of the healing process.
Before having a career break to bring up her family, Julia was a pharmacist working in NHS primary and secondary care. This developed her interest in mental health and the role of talking therapy as a valid treatment option.
BACP Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist
Kirsty is a BACP Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist who has been working within the field of therapy and counselling for the past 12 years. She has experience of working as a therapist within NHS Primary Care, Further and Higher Education and the Third Sector.
Kirsty offers a warm, compassionate, and inclusive space for clients to explore their feelings and difficulties and uses a range of modalities within her integrative, client-centred approach.
Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
adults and young people
BACP registered
Qualified Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, registered with UKCP and FPC
Hannah is dedicated to offering a non-judgemental and confidential space where you will be listened to. Hannah believes that a supportive and collaborative approach to therapy can help you to gain insight, develop coping strategies and work towards improved emotional well-being and personal growth. It was Hannah’s own realisation that she wanted to learn more about her own emotional reactions to others that sparked her interest in psychotherapy and feeling the benefits of having a greater understanding of herself, is ultimately what led her to train.
Psychotherapeutic Counsellor – trainee (reduced rate)
BACP Member
Alison’s therapeutic approach is Humanistic Integrative, drawing on various models including Transactional Analysis and Psychodynamic theory amongst others, underpinned by Person–Centred principles and values, and always tailored to the individual client. She believes that a collaborative therapeutic relationship built on trust is the foundation for positive change and personal growth.
INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS
Psychotherapeutic Counsellors
Psychotherapeutic Counsellor with children, young people, and adults
Jo is a fully accredited counsellor and clinical supervisor, with over 5000 client hours, working with individuals of all ages.
Half of this time has been spent working with relationships and couples mainly through the charity Relate.
The rest of her time has been focused on helping young people with their mental health, having been employed as the senior counsellor for an education Trust
Jo has an integrative approach to counselling and is a great believer in the power of the therapeutic relationship to provide a safe and supportive environment to enable clients to explore and fulfil their potential.
Integrative Psychotherapist, Counsellor & Coach – DCounsPsych, MBACP, Dip Life Coaching, NLP Cert
Who does Becky support?
As an Integrative Psychotherapist, Counsellor & Coach I have a unique & powerful way of supporting you to understand & overcome your past experiences & your current struggles, whilst also helping you to focus on your future. I offer online & in person appointments & I typically support adults & young people who are consumed, limited & held back by their thoughts, feelings, fears, insecurities or unhealthy patterns & therefore lack self-belief & confidence within themselves & their relationships.
Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor MBACP. Children, adolescents and adults.
Philippa trained at the Northern Guild as a child, adolescent and adult Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, following over 20 years working as a consultant in the field of sport, physical activity health and wellbeing.
Through her training and therapeutic work in schools, charities and through GPs, Philippa has observed many clients not knowing what is causing their emotional pain, confusion or behaviours.
Psychotherapist (Child and Adolescent specialism)
UKCP Registered
MBACP
Susannah is a qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist working with both children and adults. She is accredited with the UKCP and is also a qualified Adult Psychotherapeutic Counsellor. Susannah enjoys working across age groups, from young children, adolescents, parents, adults and the elderly. She has worked in the charity and voluntary sector as well as in Private Practice. She trained at the Northern Guild for Psychotherapy and is registered with both the BACP and the UKCP.
Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
I am working towards accreditation as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor at the Northern Guild, specialising in children and young people. I have experience working with trauma, stress, anxiety, bereavement, loss, grief, relationships, ADHD, OCD, intrusive thoughts, school/exam pressures, bullying, family issues, identity, LGBTQ+, low self-esteem and self-worth.
I am a creative ‘integrative therapist’, with a passion for music, art and a Humanistic positive view of people and their potential, which enables me to adapt my way of working to meet the client’s needs and personality with warmth, unconditional positive regard, empathy and congruence.
Drama Therapist
‘We all have stories waiting to be told; therapy creates a safe space for them to be heard’.
Following an early career in the arts, and Theatre in Education, a positive and life affirming experience as a client in counselling led to Nancy’s interest in combining her love of the arts, along with her desire for helping others.
Psychotherapeutic Counsellor of children, young people and adult
BA HONS, PGDip PSYCHOTHERAPY
Individual Registered member UKCP, MBACP
Originally from London, Natascha graduated with a BA Hons in English and Journalism from Leeds University. After returning home and an early career in medical recruitment she went on to take over the running of a family business in imports/exports, while at the same time fulfilling a desire to learn and understand more about the world of therapy by undertaking Psychodynamic counselling training at the Westminster Pastoral Foundation in Kensington, qualifying in 2006.
CHILDREN ONLY
Psychotherapeutic Counsellors
Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
Clare has trained as a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor with the the Northern Guild specialising in children and young people. Clare believes that trusting relationships support children’s healing and enjoys working creatively to meet each child’s individual therapeutic needs. Clare has over 25 years’ experience of working with children, young people and families across a multi-agency field in both the UK and overseas.
Psychotherapeutic counsellor (BACP Accredited). BACP Member, working towards UKCP Accreditation, with over 500 hours experience.
Sara Caswell trained at Northern Guild and is a compassionate and empathetic therapist who creates a safe and welcoming space for her clients. With a non-judgemental and confidential approach, Sara aims to help her clients gain a deeper understanding of themselves and their situations.
Child and Adolescent Psychotherapeutic Counsellor (trainee)
For nearly 30 years I have enjoyed a career focusing on supporting children and young people. I am currently working towards my BACP accreditation as a Child and Adolescent Therapeutic Counsellor, whilst continuing my career in education.
My career began in primary schools as a class teacher and SENCo. I then moved into specialist advisory work across Yorkshire and have run specialist provisions for children at risk of permanent exclusion. It was during this time that I recognised the lack of therapeutic support for children and young people, and realised the advantageous position a child therapist would have with extensive educational experience.
Chartered Psychologists (Adult and Children)
Chartered Forensic Psychologist
BPS Chartered Scientist
HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist
C.Psychol, C.Sci, AFBPsS, MSc, Bsc (hons)
Nina has been a qualified Psychologist for over ten years. She is trained in a range of therapeutic modalities affording her the privilege of working with children and adolescents, adults, couples and families. Nina is a Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) trained practitioner to advanced practitioner level. She is also trained in Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), a therapeutic approach that is helpful in processing significant past life experiences that continue to influence the present in both mind and body.
Helen O’Connor
HCPC Registered Forensic Psychologist
C.Psychol, MSc, BSc (hons)
Helen has been a qualified Psychologist since 2017, working within psychological services since 2010. She is trained and experienced in delivering a range of therapeutic modalities including Compassion Focused Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Forest Therapy, and Conscious Connected Breathwork. Helen utilises an embodied, trauma-informed approach to support her work, recognising the importance of connecting with the body, as well as the mind, when supporting wellbeing.
Jo is a Forensic Psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and has over 12 years experience providing psychological assessment and treatment interventions within community, inpatient and secure settings. Jo has worked extensively with a variety of client groups including young people, adult males and females, and individuals with learning disability, mental illness, and personality disorder.
HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist and BPS Chartered (Forensic) Psychologist
With over 20 years post qualification experience, Emma has worked as a Consultant Psychologist within various public sector settings, offering assessment and therapy services to clients with diverse mental health needs.
Chartered Counselling Psychologist
Psychol, D.Couns.Psy, PgDip, Bsc(hons)
BPS and HCPS registered practitioner psychologist
Sarah is a qualified Doctor in Counselling Psychology, with 16 years’ post qualification experience within the sector. Over the years she has worked in the NHS, private practice and with charities in a psychological profession.
She worked for several years at a national cancer charity in London, before relocating to North Yorkshire, setting up and running a successful private practice.
Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist
HCPC, Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Associate Fellow of BPS, BPS Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors (RAPPS)
BSc, MSc, Qualification in Forensic Psychology.
I am a Chartered and Registered Forensic Psychologist with over 10 years of post-qualification experience. I have extensive experience of conducting assessments, delivering psychological therapy and providing training and supervision.
COUPLES COUNSELLING AND INDIVIDUAL ADULTS
Jo is a fully accredited counsellor and clinical supervisor, with over 5000 client hours, working with individuals of all ages.
Half of this time has been spent working with relationships and couples mainly through the charity Relate.
The rest of her time has been focused on helping young people with their mental health, having been employed as the senior counsellor for an education Trust
Jo has an integrative approach to counselling and is a great believer in the power of the therapeutic relationship to provide a safe and supportive environment to enable clients to explore and fulfil their potential.
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Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor BSc. Transpersonal Couple Therapist, Diploma. Couple Therapy for Depression, IAPT Tavistock Relations. Mindfulness Practitioner. Accredited UKCP Member.
Katie has accreditation with the UKCP as an Integrative Psychotherapeutic Counsellor & has been working in the field of therapy for 13 years in private practice, for EAP services & IAPT services within the NHS and the third sector.
UKCP Accredited Couples Counsellor
MA Psychosynthesis Psychology. BSc. PG Dip Psychotherapy
Shan is a UKCP accredited Couples Counsellor who specialises in relationship issues for couples. She has been in private practice for over 10 years.
Shan helps couples whose relationship or marriage is in crisis. If you don’t do something now, your fear is that you will divorce or separate.
THERAPEUTIC COACHES
Therapeutic Coach – Children & Young People MBACP
Heather is passionate about supporting children and young people to live their best lives. As a therapeutic coach, Heather works collaboratively with young people navigating the challenges of childhood and early adulthood. She believes that every young person has the potential to thrive, and her goal is to help them tap into their own inner resources and reach their full potential.
Carla Wise – HCPC Registered Dramatherapist and Clinical Supervisor
Carla is an HCPC registered Dramatherapist, Coach and Clinical Supervisor, with over 20 years’ experience of supporting people with grief, change and loss. She creates an atmosphere of warmth, trust and safety, where clients feel supported and more able to share their thoughts freely. Dramatherapy is a unique form of psychotherapy, in which creativity helps clients to see things from a different perspective.
Integrative Psychotherapist, Counsellor & Coach – DCounsPsych, MBACP, Dip Life Coaching, NLP Cert
Who does Becky support?
As an Integrative Psychotherapist, Counsellor & Coach I have a unique & powerful way of supporting you to understand & overcome your past experiences & your current struggles, whilst also helping you to focus on your future. I offer online & in person appointments & I typically support adults & young people who are consumed, limited & held back by their thoughts, feelings, fears, insecurities or unhealthy patterns & therefore lack self-belief & confidence within themselves & their relationships.
LIFE COACHES
MBBS MRCGP DRCOG DFFP Member of British Menopause Society
Since qualifying as a GP from Newcastle Medical School in 1994, women’s health and young people’s health have always been at the forefront of my specialist interests. I also have a particular interest in Mental Health and Burnout prevention and recovery. I have a keen interest in lifestyle medicine.
Coach
Jane Keogh is a deeply intuitive and empathetic personal development coach having gone through her own person journey of trauma recovery.
She helps people navigate stress & anxiety, emotional trauma (PTSD) and focussing on building true emotional resilience and wellbeing so that they can lead a happier more fulfilled life (in every aspect).
She is an NLP master practitioner, a core dynamics of human conditioning coach, a DiSC trainer (psychometric profiling) and a certified Havening Practitioner.
Personal Performance Coach
Lorna supports ambitious mid-career professionals looking for step change.
Working with Lorna results in aligned future focused strategic planning and action!
Outcomes include enhanced clarity and decision making; boosted execution and performance; a sense of resetting, leading ultimately to greater fulfilment and sustainable happiness professionally and personally.
Integrative Nutrition Health Coach
MA, IINHealth Coach certification, 200 Hr Yoga Instructor. HCA Coaching Certification Level 5.
Full UKIHCA Member
Anna is a Health Coach. She specializes in hormonal, and particularly thyroid issues. She believes that everyone is the expert about their own health and wellbeing and they just need to be provided with the right toolkit to get them to practice and effortlessly live what they already know. She has written a book on the topic “The doctor won’t see you now; 50 ways to own and shape your wellbeing”.
She has led wellness retreats in Italy, Spain, the UK and the US.
More about how she wants to help clients can be found at www.myhealthgardener.co.uk
COMPLIMENTARY THERAPISTS
Bioresonance & Bowen
Sally is a root cause therapist. She has over 20 years’ experience in this field. Her main aim is to get to the bottom of diseases and/or symptoms, and eliminate them. Using Bioresonance therapy, Bowen therapy, gut health programs & DNA nutrigenetics testing she aims to help you get rid of burdens on the system, find out the areas of your body that need extra help, and get you as healthy as possible. The work Sally does is not a one treatment approach. It takes commitment from her and you, as the patient.
Core Nutritional Therapy
BA, PGCE, PgDip, MSc Nutrition Science and Practice
Vicky is a Nutritional Therapist with an MSc in Nutrition Science and practice. As well as offering 1:1 nutrition therapy, she is a published nutrition writer and a creator of multi-sensory nutritional experiences. The mind body connection is at the core of her practice, and the topic of her dissertation research, because it’s fundamental to gut and hormone health. She has used her research to create immersive, educational nutrition experiences at Mindful Dinner events across North Yorkshire.
Complementary Medical Practitioner
Teresa is a highly committed and motivated complementary medical practitioner with 30 years experience in a variety of settings including GP surgeries, complementary health clinics, schools, sports centres, hospitals, hospices and cancer centres.
She uses one or a combination of complementary therapies: Emmett Technique, Holistic and Clinical Aromatherapy, Clinical Reflexology, Reflexology Lymph Draining (RLD), Scar Work (MSTR and ScarWorks), Hypnotherapy, Massage, Reiki, Indian Head Massage, and Flower Remedies.
Solution Focused Hypnotherapist
HPD, MNCH (Reg), CNHC
Sarah is an established specialist, having run her practice, Flourish Hypnotherapy, in central Harrogate for over a decade.
A graduate in linguistics with psychology, she moved into hypnotherapy from a professional corporate career in marketing communications and social research.
Delighted by the results of her own personal experience of hypnotherapy in her 20s, she trained to the gold standard Hypnotherapy in Practice Diploma with the Academy of Clinical and Medical Hypnosis and subsequently in Solution Focused methods. Solution Focus is a recognised and evidence-based technique, which concentrates on solutions, rather than dwelling on the problems that brought you to therapy.
Mouna Flow Yoga
200hr ttc + 60hr yin ttc Sampoorna yoga, India
Nicki is a yoga and meditation teacher who offers group classes and 1:1 sessions.
Her passion is helping people to slow down and reconnect to their mind, body and soul, whether that be through asana (physical postures) yoga nidra, breath, sound or meditation. All of these practices have at their heart the means to being less fragmented, reactive and unbalanced, helping you find your way back to wholeness. A massage therapist for over 20years Nicki works intuitively to help release long held stresses and tension, allowing for the free flow of energy and vitality.
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Managing Partner
After graduating with a BA Hons degree in English, Andrea started her career in marketing as a proof-reader and copywriter, later managing clients in demanding retail environments.
Andrea then focused her time raising 3 children, alongside using her creative interior skills to renovate and develop houses, leading to a property portfolio, which she continues to maintain.
Operations Director
Sam’s background is in Marketing and Advertising, with a BA Honours degree in Marketing Management. Sam has spent over 15 years, working with major brands, and building relationships with clients.
Bringing with her the experience of managing large teams, understanding the importance of nurturing colleagues and helping them grow. As part of an expanding team Sam understands Process Mapping, efficiency and appraisal are integral to success – managing budgets and excellent project management are the foundations Sam brings with her to The Harlow.
Managing Partner
Gordon has been in the marketing and communications sector for 25yrs, building and leading his own agency into one of the region’s best performers and championing trust based partnerships with some of Britain’s best loved brands.
Clinical Lead
Psychotherapeutic Counsellor MBACP
BSc (hons); PG Cert, PG Dip
I am an integrative trauma-informed psychotherapist and counsellor. I work from a strengths based perspective and empower those I work with to create change in their lives.
Whilst completing my Psychology BSc (Hons) Degree I began working in the Mental Health sector supporting people in inpatient care, within the community and within their own homes. I also worked with people who have autism and learning disabilities, young children and the elderly. I enjoy connecting with and learning about people from all backgrounds.
Case Manager
Anna Wright is a dedicated Case Manager and Client Care specialist here at The Harlow. Anna graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Psychology from York St John University in 2021. Her passion for understanding the human mind and fostering well-being led her to The Harlow, where she plays a pivotal role in ensuring clients receive the best possible care.
I wanted to thank you for helping me through a really tough time. I know I am still vulnerable to anxiety and stress but I’ve learnt a lot about myself and feel more confident understanding how I tick and why I react to things the way I do. I owe that to you, so thank you!
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