A very warm welcome and thank you for visiting my website.

My name is David, and I am a (now retired) Psychotherapeutic Counsellor and Hypnotherapist, located in South Yorkshire.

I have put links at the bottom of this page to help you to find a registered therapist in your area.

A very short bit of caring advice… Please don’t give up on attending therapy if the therapist you are currently seeing doesn’t “feel right”. Not feeling at home with a particular therapist doesn’t have to be anybody’s “fault”. Sometimes, even the best ingredients don’t mix well together. If after a little while, you feel that you are only going through the motions with the therapist rather than actually being “with” them to work on what is affecting you, please be brave and say so. Your openness about how you feel is very important and can make all the difference.

Your therapist understands that we almost certainly won’t suit everyone that comes to us. We may even have a characteristic that triggers an issue for you! Get your sessions on track again by discussing how you feel.

Having said that… you may sometimes experience discomfort, emotional challenges, after your therapy is established. That is almost certainly a sign that you are starting to become aware of the roots of an issue. Some of our deepest understanding and most valuable insights can be preceded by those challenging feelings, so try to think of them as a positive sign, as a signpost that there is an opportunity for a change approaching.

Try to remember that, if we knew all the answers when faced by life’s challenges then there wouldn’t be any need for therapists! There is never any shame in seeking assistance or just a new and different perspective on something that is troubling us. Did you know that psychotherapists also have regular sessions with a supervisor (a more seasoned therapist) to enable us to have access to their wisdom of experience, as well as an often very valuable different perspective?

There is an old Norse greeting that resonates strongly and very deeply within me. “I am another yourself”. We are neither superior nor inferior to each other. Our lives and experiences have led us to where we are, and if we swapped those lives and experiences then we would be looking at each other from each other’s perspective. We are all precious.

David