Glen Gibson Dip Couns Dip Psych MA Psych MBACP (Accred)

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Full address provided upon booking | Rossendale Way | Camden | London | NW1 0XB

UKCP Reg BACP Accredited Psychotherapist

I provide Face to Face Counselling, Psychology, Psychotherapy from £50

I offer fees on a sliding scale depending on your financial situation (no proof required).
Individuals: first session set at £75.00, subsequent appointments between £50.00 and £100.00.
Approximate length of one appointment: 50 minutes
Approximate length of therapy: dependent on the person and issues involved. For most difficulties and problems there are usually no quick fixes and I do not pretend to offer them.
Languages: English
Nearest Train Station: Camden Road, Euston and King's Cross.
Nearest Tube Station: Camden Town.
Nearest Bus Stop: Camden Road, St Pancras Way.
I am in easy reach of: West End, City of London, Central London, Camden Town, Kentish Town, Islington, Hampstead, Regent's Park, Belsize Park, Square Mile, North West, Bloomsbury, Highgate, King's Cross, Marylebone, St John's Wood, Swiss Cottage, Westminster.
Wheelchair access: No

Problems I work with: Abuse, Addiction to Love and Sex, Addictions, Anger, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Bereavement, Bullying, Cancer, Career, Childhood issues, Codependence, Confidence issues, Couple relationships, Creativity, Cultural issues, Depression, Dissociation, Divorce, Dyslexia, Faith issues, Fear, Gambling, Grief, Identity, Impotency, Infertility, Integration of experience, Internet addiction, Internet gambling addiction, Internet pornography addiction, Internet sexual compulsivity, Lack of meaning in life, Loneliness, Loss, Marriage (Marital relations), Midlife crisis, Mixed-race issues, Personal growth, Personal relationships, Personality difficulties, Physical illness, Post natal depression, Post traumatic stress, Pregnancy, Rape, Redundancy, Same-sex relationships, Self-development, Self-esteem, Sexual abuse, Sleep problems, Spirituality, Stress, Transitions, Trauma, Unresolved issues, Work issues and relationships

Clinical Experience

I value each person's uniqueness and respond in an individual way to your circumstances, and at the same time appreciate what we human beings hold in common - that beneath our differences are fundamental shared experiences and concepts, that the human heart and suffering are universal. I welcome and respect people's diversity. My experience includes working with men or women, old or young, who are straight, bisexual, lesbian or gay, white, black or mixed race, of many nationalities and cultures, those who are religious, hold spiritual beliefs, atheist or agnostic. What I have found clients value the most is feeling comfortable with the therapist.

In normal social life it is unacceptable to express all our feelings and tell everyone about our experience - even with our closest friends and family. Our concerns or suffering can feel almost unbearable to ourselves or others. Even with people we trust, limits are usually set in what we say or are prepared to hear, restraining what we disclose about ourselves. Therefore, many people value professional help by talking to a counsellor as someone independent, not directly connected, who isn't too close and can hear you without a vested interest or preconceptions. Receiving a different response and perspective to what is usual in life can also be significant. Many people view counselling as a supportive resource, just as acceptable as learning about diet and physical health.

As a psychotherapist I have both a professional and human approach, which is not just "symptom" related. I focus not so much on techniques or analysis and more about curiosity, exploration and reflection, providing an external perspective, helping to shed light upon the obstacles in your life, so you can change the areas you want to change or manage your life differently. My approach here can be to offer a mirror, reflecting back how I experience you, so you may be able to see more of yourself and focus upon the important areas in your life. Some people come to psychotherapy wanting to begin a new chapter in their life. Others may experience their life being like a jigsaw, and I see my role as helping make sense of the whole picture with the separate pieces, including any redundant, new or missing ones.

My role is to support you in discovering not only your external sense of yourself - what you do and would like to do, but also your internal sense of yourself - your home truths, who you are and what you may become.

How I Work

Having an impartial perspective, I aim to bring clarity and sensitivity to my work with warmth, humour and fresh insight, together with my passionate beliefs of self determination and responsibility.

My affirming approach is also to be alongside you, and the issues you bring to counselling, so the choices you make, enrich rather than limit life. As a counsellor I hold the view that each person takes responsibility for the way they use therapy in their life, so the outcome is in the individual’s hands.

Entering into psychotherapy is no small step and becomes a commitment for both of us ...

At the beginning my role is to listen and to understand why you have come, what you might need and how I can help. I usually ask a lot of questions to find out about your life now, your issues, who you are and a little about your past. Alongside the current issues you bring to counselling, we may look at where you’d like to be, and what stops you to getting there, so far.

We are all hampered by how the limits of language, don't quite explain the full depth of our experiences and my role is to find out about you and the way you do things - your modus operandi. Therefore, my initial approach as a psychotherapist is to get to know you and for you to develop a greater understanding of yourself in a safe, confidential, supportive and jargon free environment - a space for you to explore what you want to explore and say the things that for some may be hard to say.

Psychotherapy will include making connections to how you feel, think and act in your life. This may involve developing an understanding that you don't have to allow your feelings to have power over you, and that you can make different choices. Working at your own pace, I offer guidance and support, so fresh ways of seeing yourself, different options and choices may become available.

I recognise that no one theory holds the truth, and that deep and lasting change is possible at any stage of life. Counselling is not a medical treatment or an exact science, we are infinitely complex with many possibilities, and I do not hold a “one size fits all” approach. No one is a stereotype and because we are different, what works for many people does not work for everyone. My experience and training as counsellor includes creatively working with a range of approaches and strategies. Most people have found that our way of working together and the quality of the therapeutic relationship is the most important factor.

Clinical Training

My interest in therapy developed in 1982. I have completed seven years training in psychosynthesis counselling and psychotherapy in London, drawn to it because it was described as a psychology of the soul.

My training combined the physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, and spiritual aspects of a person and help me gain a broader understanding of myself and others. I realised that some things come naturally in life and other things need to be learnt.

As a qualified Counsellor and Psychotherapist, in my practice I bring together over twenty five years experience of working with people at points of change in their lives, both in the voluntary sector and privately. Over this period I have valued listening to people’s life stories. I acknowledge and aspire to share what I have learnt from others.

I undertake continuing professional development and training in order to enhance my knowledge and experience.

Additional Information

Everyone, universally, has some ingrained ways of relating, so in a sense the focus and benefits of counselling are always about relationships with:
• Our partner
• Others - parents, siblings, children, friends, peers, colleagues, acquaintances, neighbours, authority
• Things, Objects - alcohol, overworking, internet, which reduces the time & energy in developing flesh & blood encounters
• Ourselves - our internal relationship, how well we understand & manage our own feelings & emotions

Updated 30|09|2008