Carola Percival

Abuse, Addictions, Adolescence, Anger, Anxiety, Assertiveness, Bereavement, Bipolar Disorder, Childhood Issues, Codependency, Couple Relationships, Creativity, Cultural Issues, Depression, Dissociation, Divorce, Fear, Grief, Identity, Infertility, Inhibitions, Integration of Experience, Lack of Meaning in Life, Loneliness, Loss, Low Self Confidence, Low Self Esteem, Marriage (Marital Relations), Midlife Crisis, Mother and Baby Issues, Obsessions, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), Panic Attacks, Parenting, Personal Growth, Personal Relationships, Personality Difficulties, Phobias, Post Natal Depression (PND), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Psychosexual Issues, Psychosomatic Symptoms, Redundancy, Self Development, Self Harm, Sleep Problems, Social Phobia, Stress, Transitions, Trauma, Unresolved Issues, Workplace Issues and Work Relationship Problems

Behaviour Therapy, Brief Therapy, Client Centred Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, Humanistic Therapy, Integrative Therapy, Relational Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy (SFT), Transactional Analysis (TA)

Female

I provide a structured, confidential and non judgemental counselling and psychotherapy service in the Thames Valley, near Henley, Reading and Newbury. I aim to effect a change from unhelpful or destructive patterns of your past. This usually leads to awareness and greater autonomy: you can make decisions to change your life, feel more confident and in control. In my counselling and psychotherapy practice I have worked with clients aged from ten to over sixty years, in particular with issues around partners, marriage, child-parent relationships and difficulties in development of the self, as well as integration in a new culture. I have been in clinical practice for almost five years. I have given my support to clients experiencing loss, e.g. death of a loved one; end of a relationship; divorce; move of house, employment or country. Stages of transition often result in periods of anxiety, even depression and grief. I understand that to find one's way in a different culture and language can bring problems, sometimes accompanied by a crisis of identity for an individual. I have an international perspective, aware of language, creativity and difference, and can offer therapy in German as well as English. My clients' well-being and healing is paramount and I foster mutuality, empathy, hope and respect in the therapeutic encounter which is contractually bound by the clear agreement between my clients and myself. Central to my counselling and psychotherapy work is the relationship between my clients and myself which we create together. I facilitate small groups after rehabilitation, and I am interested in working with families. As a Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) I am bound by its Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy. I am in regular, confidential consultation with a highly qualified supervisor.

• Advanced Practice Transactional Analysis (TA) Counselling and Psychotherapy - Metanoia Institute (MET) London (UK) 2008
• British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Member (MBACP) Counsellor and Psychotherapist since 2007

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).

My first professional degrees and training were a BA (Hons) in Philosophy and German, and a PGCE. I have been working as a teacher of German literature.

I am the mother of two daughters.

In my work as a therapist, my particular interest is in the areas of the self in relationship; of aculturisation; of family constellations and group dynamics. I firmly believe in the empowerment and capacity for health of the individual. Transactional Analysis includes this in the concept of Physis = health.

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