What is it?

Many of us experience worry or depression at some stage of life and need to come to terms with pain,
disappointment and confusion.

Often this can be resolved without outside help. Sometimes, however, the difficulties persis causing unhappiness
at home, work or in our relationships with others. This may be because current issues are stirring up feelings from
the past of which we are not consciously aware.

Counselling and Psychotherapy can help us to understand and make sense of hidden aspects of ourselves.

What will happen at a consultation?

In a reliable and confidential setting, you will be encouraged to use the sessions for reflection on whatever is on
your mind, such as feelings, thoughts,memories, dreams. By listening, reflecting and questioning, the therapist
tries to help you make sense of your experiences.

As the relationship between you and the therapist developsyou may discover new insights and more appropriate
ways of being.

The aim is to help people to understand and accept themselves and to find their own resolution to the conflicts and difficulties they experience.

What are the side effects?

It is well known that things sometimes feel worse before they get better so don't assume it means failure
if you hit a bad patch. It is a matter of hanging on in there and learning to trust the process.
Do not give up too easily.

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Practitioner details:

Jen Kershaw

BAC accredited (British Association for Counselling) and UKCP registered
(United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy).

Professional organisation - AHPP - Association of Humanistic Psychology Practitioners.

I completed my core humanistic and integrative training at the Oxford Centre for Human Relations
and the Bath Centre for Psychotherapy and Counselling between 1992 and 1996, and since then have
undertaken much supplementary training to enhance my personal and professional
development. This has included courses and workshops in Gestalt, meditation and healing, group-work,massage,
work with shamanic and transpersonal perspectives, and a course linking Buddhism and Jungian Psychotherapy.
I have studied extensively with Roger Woolger and am a graduate of his Deep Memory Processing, which incorporates Past-Life Therapy and Spirit Release. I have a particular interest in eating disorders, having worked for three years
for the Somerset Eating Disorders Association.

I work at The Poundbury Clinic on Friday afternoons.

Further information:

www.ahpp.org
www.rogerwoolger.com
www.bacp.co.uk

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