Elaine Maltby Dip Counselling MBACP

Abuse, Addiction to Love and Sex, Addictions, Adolescence, Alcohol Problems, Anger, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Bereavement, Bisexual Issues, Bullying, Business Leader's Issues, Career Issues, Childhood Issues, Codependence, Confidence Issues, Creativity, Cultural Issues, Debt, Depression, Diabetes, Disability, Dissociation, Divorce, Drug Addiction, Eating Disorders, Faith Issues, Fear, Gambling, Grief, History of Mental Illness, Hysteria, Identity, Inhibitions, Internet Addiction, Lack of Meaning in Life, Loneliness, Loss, Marriage (Marital relations), Midlife Crisis, Mother and Baby Issues, Obsessions, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Attacks, Parenting Issues, Personal Growth, Personal Relationships, Personality Difficulties, Physical Illness, Post Natal Depression (PND), Pregnancy, Psychosomatic Symptoms, Racial Abuse, Redundancy, Same Sex Relationships, Self Development, Self Esteem, Self Harm, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Behaviour, Sexuality, Sleeping Problems, Smoking Addiction, Social Phobia, Spirituality, Stage Fright, Stress, Transgender Issues, Transitions, Trauma, Unresolved Issues, Work Issues and Relationships

Existential Therapy, Person Centred Therapy

Female

I work short to long term with individual adults. I work with private clients (since 2002). I worked as an addiction counsellor on the Camden Minor Tranquilliser Project for MIND (1998 to 2002). I facilitated group work for Bromley Drugs Programme (2004), and worked as a smoking cessation counsellor for Quitline, the NHS Pregnancy Smoking Helpline and the Zyban Helpline (2001 to 2003). I also work as a diabetes counsellor (since 2001).

My theoretical approaches are person-centred, in that my acceptance of a person enables them to come to terms with difficult emotions and develop inner resources, and existentialist, in that existential theory maintains life has no essential given meaning, meaning is to be found or created by a willingness to face one’s life and problems.

I qualified with a Diploma in Counselling (2000). I also have a Diploma in Smoking Cessation (2002). I am currently working towards accreditation with the BACP. I undertook training in email counselling with a major UK charity (2000). Since then I have been providing email counselling with another major UK charity.