Hansje Te Velde - Gestalt Counselling and Psychotherapy
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Consulting Rooms (by appointment)
Full address provided upon booking | Beaconsfield Street | Leamington Spa | Warwickshire | CV31 1DT | UK
Full address provided upon booking | Beaconsfield Street | Leamington Spa | Warwickshire | CV31 1DT | UK
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Accredited (MBACP Accred) Counsellor and Psychotherapist
- UK Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (UKRCP) Registered Independent (UKRCP Reg Ind) Counsellor and Psychotherapist
I provide Face to Face Counselling and Psychotherapy in Leamington Spa
Fees: Individuals £50.00 - 60 minutes, Couples £65.00 - 60 minutes
Approximate length of therapy: short term from 3 to 12 sessions, long term from 12 to 75 sessions or ongoing
Languages: Dutch, English
Approximate length of therapy: short term from 3 to 12 sessions, long term from 12 to 75 sessions or ongoing
Languages: Dutch, English
I provide Telephone Counselling
Fee: Individuals £50.00
Approximate length of one Telephone appointment: 60 minutes
Approximate length of Telephone Counselling: ongoing
Languages: Dutch, English
Approximate length of Telephone Counselling: ongoing
Languages: Dutch, English
I offer Private Counselling and Psychotherapy Services for these Issues
Abortion, Academic Performance, Adjustments, Adolescence, Adoption, Altered Body Image, Anger, Angst, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Avoidance, Bereavement, Career Issues, Childbirth, Childhood Abuse, Childhood Issues, Concentration Problems, Conflict Resolution, Couple Relationships, Creativity, Critical Parents, Cultural Issues, Culture Shock, Depression, Despair, Disfigurement, Dissociation, Distress, Dreams, Employment, Ethics, Family Problems, Fear, Freedom, Fright, Frustration, Gender, Grief, Homesickness, Identity, Infertility, Inhibitions, Integration of Experience, Isolation, Lack of Meaning in Life, Life Problems, Loss, Low Self Esteem, Meaningless, Melancholia, Menopause, Mixed Race Issues, Mothering, Nightmares, Old Age, Panic Attacks, Parents, Perfectionism, Personal Growth, Personal Relationships, Pet Bereavement, Post Natal Depression (PND), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Pregnancy, Purposelessness, Race, Redundancy, Relationship Problems, Relaxation Training, Restrictions, Self Determination, Self Development, Self Responsibility, Separation, Sexuality, Shame, Shyness, Spirituality, Stress, Stress Management, Stuckness, Tearfulness, Transitions, Trauma, Unresolved Issues, Women's Issues, Work Stress, Workplace Issues and Work Relationship Problems
My Counselling and Psychotherapy Therapeutic Approaches
Brief Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Experiential Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Holistic Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, Relational Therapy
Gender
Female
Clinical Experience in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Welcome to my profile! I am Hansje te Velde, psychotherapist, counsellor, supervisor.
I have been working in this field since 1991, when I qualified, helping people resolve conflict by exploring who they are and accepting more of themselves, working towards lasting changes.
I work with your unique interests and concerns.
You may be seeking therapy or counselling when you are uncertain of your direction and purpose in life, adjusting to economic changes, feeling isolated and unable to make meaningful relationships, affected in the present by past trauma, experiencing loss, making a big life transition, having difficulties in your current relationship, struggling with the effects of a health diagnosis, or feeling depressed.
I am passionate about gestalt therapy, because gestalt therapy works with the whole person - feelings, body, intelligence, energy, emotions, imagination, creativity, spirituality, dreams - towards a more integrated self. Whilst using this holistic approach, I see people discover and develop a better sense of themselves with more awareness of options and choices in the way they live their lives.
Gestalt therapy considers three manifestations: you, your environment or context and the relationship between them.
So, you may feel that you are blocked in some aspect of yourself which is reflected in issues in your relationships to others and/or to yourself or with the world around you. In the sessions you and I explore together what is going on with you, at your pace, supporting you and bringing about greater awareness of what is happening. Together we work on resolving conflict and discovering more choices.
Gestalt's methodology includes awareness and presence, dialogue, attention to possibilities, client therapist relationship, creative experimenting, here and now experience, dream work, transference and counter transference, projective identification.
I am interested in working with individuals in longer term therapy. My experience is that through sustained exploration and support, lasting change can be achieved.
Based on my experience, I believe that short term gestalt therapy over several weeks or a few months can also be very beneficial and can instigate significant changes.
Are you interested? Then do contact me to speak directly. I am happy to tell you more or go into anything you are unsure about.
What to Expect during Counselling and Psychotherapy
The first session is an introducion session where you and and I meet each other, talk together and look at continuing to work together. This session is non-obligatory, meaning that you have the choice to continue or not. This session is also the assessment session to establish that therapy or counselling is the best service for you at this particular time.As you and I together explore the issues you bring to the sessions your awareness of what is going on with you is likely to increase.
An example of a session where my client and I explore. John (not real name) has brought his drawing book. He wants to show me what he has drawn because the drawings have in them what he tells me about himself and his life in the sessions, John says. I look at the first drawing John wants me to look at. As I am looking, he tells me about the hands in the drawing. I see two holding hands. I also see that John, in this moment, is holding his own two hands. I ask what his hands are doing. He and I fully explore the meaning of his holding hands and John gets in touch with being left.
In subsequent sessions John and I continue to explore and make room for John's strong feelings when a significant person in his life goes away. Together we have made connections between these feelings and often being left as a young child. This helps him to make sense of his feelings and develop insights and new ways of being in current relationships.
As the therapy progresses, John and I also explore what happens in the therapeutic relationship. That helps further with gaining insights and becoming aware of influences such as fears and hopes on present relationships.
Another example. Maria (not real name) feels dissatisfied in her relationship and at work, despite "having everything" - partner, children, good job, fine house. Through exploring together, it transpires that Maria could be experiencing issues now that are connected to her having been adopted as baby. I focus on "here and now" and on what happens moment by moment. Together, and at her pace, Maria and I work with her fears of abandonment and intimacy. I use gestalt methodology and cognitive behavioural approaches to explore together what is possible.
One more example. Sabine (not real name) has been coming for approximately twenty five sessions. She is worried about Katy (not real name), her 8 year old daughter, who expresses angry outbursts. I sense that Sabine is holding down her own anger and gently explore this possibility with her. Sabine is interested and through the gestalt dialogue method she accesses her anger and feels able to express what she feels. Afterwards she experiences a huge sense of relief. Several weeks later she tells me that her daughter has not had any more angry outbursts. Together Sabine and I establish the sensitivity of some children to their parents feelings and that Katy was expressing what Sabine was holding down.
Are you interested? Then do contact me, I am happy to tell you more or go into anything that you are unsure about.
Clinical Qualifications in Counselling and Psychotherapy
- UK Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (UKRCP) Registered Independent (UKRCP Reg Ind) Counsellor and Psychotherapist since 2008
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Accredited (MBACP Accred) Counsellor and Psychotherapist since 2002
- Advanced Practice Gestalt Counselling and Psychotherapy - Gestalt Centre London (GCL) (UK) 1999
I am committed to Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Counselling and Psychotherapy. I abide by the Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and the Conditions of Registration of the UK Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists (UKRCP).
Additional Information
I was born and educated in the Netherlands. During the late 70s I moved to England, worked and qualified as social worker and worked for twenty years with many people of differing ages, backgrounds and cultures. During this time I trained and qualified as gestalt psychotherapist (1991). Since then I have run a successful private practice in Leamington Spa. In 2004 I completed a Supervision Practicum Training with the Gestalt Centre London. I have worked in a group work practice, a Centre for counselling and Psychotherapy and at three universities (University of Warwick, Coventry University, University of Gloucestershire) on a counselling course and in counselling departments.
If you are interested in what I offer and how I work or go into anything else you wish to find out, then do contact me, I am happy to tell you more.
If you have a question not answered on my web profile, please contact me via the green Contact Me button.
If you are interested in what I offer and how I work or go into anything else you wish to find out, then do contact me, I am happy to tell you more.
If you have a question not answered on my web profile, please contact me via the green Contact Me button.
Consulting Rooms (by appointment)
Full address provided upon booking | Beaconsfield Street | Leamington Spa | Warwickshire | CV31 1DT | UK
Full address provided upon booking | Beaconsfield Street | Leamington Spa | Warwickshire | CV31 1DT | UK
My Consulting Address is in easy reach of: Leamington Spa, Lillington, Whitnash, Radford Semele, Tachbrook Park, Heathcote, Heathcote Industrial Estate, Offchurch, Cubbington, Old Milverton, Blackdown, Guys Cliffe, Hill Wootton, Woodloes Park, Warwick, Leek Wootton, Ashow, Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Middlemarch Business Park
Nearest Train Stations: Leamington Spa, Warwick, Warwick Parkway, Hatton, Claverdon, Canley, Coventry, Tile Hill, Berkswell, Lapworth
Wheelchair access: No
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