As you maybe making a decision about whether to pursue counselling with me, it might be helpful to hear the observations of a few of those I have been working with in 2024

I found working with Tim really helpful. He was able to bring real clarity to the issues I was grappling with and we were able to identify previously unknown root causes to problems. He was also a brilliant sounding board to discuss huge life decisions such as changing my career. I would highly recommend talking to Tim to anyone seeking counselling, but also those who are not!

Public servant, seven sessions.

Having completed a pre-session chat, we explored personal events and how these impacted, not only my emotions, behaviours and beliefs, but those of my family also.  For me this focussed on the relationship between my perception of self-worth and how my emotion of anger impacted my behaviour which was explosive: in hindsight it was frightening to those who experienced my behaviour.

Tim skilfully guided our sessions in a friendly, yet professional manner.  These sessions allowed me to apply various approaches and frameworks to understand the link between events, values, emotions and behaviour. The window of tolerance model I found especially helpful.

Tim was able to build a positive relationship with me by accepting my emotions and values whilst also promoting the values and emotions of the people involved in the primary incident.

As a Christian I understand that I don’t always get it right. Tim was able to bring a high level of spiritual insight and wisdom into our sessions which I found both affirming and real.

A huge thankyou.

Retired public servant, six sessions.

My sessions with Tim were incredibly helpful and led to a significant improvement in my emotional health, leading to an increase in my mood and a decrease in my tiredness-levels and my sense of overwhelm. The sessions with Tim invited me to reflect upon and understand the emotional load I have been bearing as a church leader. Tim helped me develop some proactive strategies to bear these burdens more sustainably and healthily.  I would wholeheartedly recommend Tim to others.

Church leader, twelve sessions.

With the help of your counselling, so much has changed and is still changing! God is moulding me and shaping me more each day, very thankful of our time together. 

God bless you with your future work! Thank you again!

Young father, seventeen sessions.

From the outset I found it easy to be completely open with Tim, and found both his professional expertise and his faith created a space in which I could be radically open. Early on in the journey I shared with Tim a summary I had written of what had happened between me and my previous church overseer. I had written this for a very specific purpose. It was an important moment of trust sharing the document with Tim, and in many ways, it framed the direction of travel.

Tim enabled me to work through both the events themselves as detailed in the document, and on the personal impact statement that comes at the end. Revisiting this felt challenging. Tim enabled me to look at both the events and their impact from a different perspective, recognising the trauma but in a way that began to help me to place them in a different context - not as a live narrative that was still shaping me, but as something that I had laid to rest, at least to a sufficient degree. I was concerned that entering into some of the details might itself be traumatic in a new way, but the opposite was the case and over the twelve sessions, I came to see the whole series of episodes in a new way. 

Of course there are always going to be shadows, but I am deeply grateful to Tim for enabling me to regain control of my narrative.

Church leader, twelve sessions.