We are a team of highly experienced Counsellors & Psychotherapists spread mainly across the southern half of the United Kingdom. Our primary focus is on providing individual 1:1 Psychotherapy and Counselling for anyone seeking help with an emotional challenge. We work with adults & children as well as with organisations. Our team have been providing such support for more than 10 years. In addition to this work we also do the following: -

• Work as tutors to those looking to enter the Counselling & Psychotherapy profession
• Conduct research that can help inform & assist our profession move forward
• Run workshopson various topics related to Counselling & Psychotherapy
• Provide resources to assist anyone looking to deepen their interest in emotional wellbeing

What can I expect

Firstly, we are a team. You are the person in our team who knows you best. My role is to help you to first express yourself and then to make connections between those thoughts & feelings that are troubling you in such a way that you can integrate them into your understanding. I do that by listening to you & using my experience and training to help bring into your awareness things that perhaps are invisible to you. If we can achieve this together then you can start to move forward towards a positive outcome. The ‘stuff’ that troubles you won’t necessarily go away but your new understanding of it means that you can recognise it and perhaps move past it….

Biographies

Mark A StancombeMBACP (ACCRED), MSc Integrated Counselling & Psychotherapy
Mark is a practicing Integrative Psychotherapist currently working in the charitable sector with adult clients. He is an experienced counselling tutor. Mark’s research interest is on the impact male therapists experience when working with adult female survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

Dr. Margaret E SmithPh.D., M.Ed., MBACP (ACCRED), SFHEA
Margaret is a practicing integrative psychotherapist and supervisor working in the private and charitable sector. She has also had many years of experience working within the university sector as a lecturer and academic. Her research interests and publications are on abusive behaviours within the domestic setting, therapeutic processes within clinical supervision, and integrative counselling practice. Margaret has recently become a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Lisa NelBA(Comb)Hons, PGCE, Adv. Dip. Int. Couns., Dip.Counselling Children & Adolescents, MBACP (ACCRED)
Lisa has 26 years’ experience in education and training. She is an Advanced Skills teacher, counselling trainer and practicing therapist. Lisa is the founder of ‘I’m OK, You’re OK’ a Social Enterprise she setup to establish professional emotional support services in schools. I’m OK, You’re OK offer 1:1 therapeutic early intervention for young people plus staff training and support for young people, families and educational staff.