ÌÇÐĹÙÍø

I am available for face to face and online counselling sessions as below:

Monday 5.00pm-8.00pm

Tuesday 3.00pm- 8.00pm

Thursday 10.00am-8.00pm 

Friday day 9.30am-6.00pm

Saturday 9.00am-1.30pm

Hi I’m Lorna. I am an experienced, qualified integrative therapist providing individual counselling support to adults and adolescents. I offer in-person and online sessions from my therapy room in South Derbyshire.

I am a warm, empathic person who can provide a professional non-judgmental space for you to work through problems that are affecting you. Therapy can help to make sense of how you feel and gain greater self-awareness. It can be a place to understand and address current and/or past issues, identify patterns and create change. Confronting difficult feelings can be challenging however therapy can provide a secure place to express them. Knowing that you are not alone on your journey, but that someone is next to you along the way can provide some comfort.

I am experienced working with adolescents, having worked as a therapist in a secondary school for several years. Prior to my retraining as a therapist, I worked as a teacher in secondary school for 20 years and so have first-hand experience of what it is like both inside and outside of the classroom environment within a school and the challenges young people face today.

As a relational practitioner, I place great value on the therapeutic relationship and the importance of building trust.

I have experience of working with a range of different issues, such as, but not a limited to relationship difficulties, loss, bereavement, divorce,  abuse, trauma, identity, bullying, self-esteem, self-injury, stress, domestic violence, anxiety, and depression.

I am integrative therapist, which means I can adopt different therapeutic approaches to suit your needs. I work predominantly from a person-centered core, accepting and valuing you as the person you are, respecting what you want to focus on. I also use Psychodynamic therapy, looking at the past and how this could be affecting you today as well as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) techniques to explore links between your thoughts, feelings and actions.

In therapy with adolescents, I can adopt different interventions to help connect and engage your young person, using creative therapies such as sand tray, drawing and talking, craft and visual resources.

I can provide short- and long-term therapy.  

I offer a free 20-minute introductory online Teams or telephone call to discuss a little about your reasons for seeking therapy. This is also an opportunity for us to talk to see if we feel we are good fit and to ask any questions you need to.

If you decide to go ahead with counselling sessions, our first session will involve me gathering some more information, setting goals and going through our agreement. This does require me asking questions about your life but there is no expectation to disclose everything at this stage. I understand that talking can be difficult, especially if feelings have been buried for a long while. I will work with compassion and at your pace, ensuring you feel comfortable and safe.

Each session lasts 50 minutes.