Therapist/Supervisor Detail

Who Am I?

My Name is

Guy Berresford

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About Me

Hi, my name is Guy and I am an Integrative Psychotherapist. My primary interests are around working with Neurodiversity and the healing of Relational Developmental Trauma. - Experience Most of my experience is around supporting people recover from the experience of growing up with Narcissistic or Borderline parents. I primarily work with Childhood Emotional Neglect, Emotional Abuse and Complex Relational Trauma. This can often include Anxiety, Depression, Low self-esteem, Self-loathing, and Toxic shame. - What I do Towards the start of therapy, I usually adopt a psychoeducational approach to build a shared language around relational needs, adaptive strategies, window of tolerance and polyvagal theory. I will then move into a phase of inquiry and insight and work towards resolving internal conflicts with empty chair work. I help my clients learn how to set boundaries and move towards healthier relationships while building self-esteem and changing self-defeating behaviours. - What I believe I believe that as human beings first we need hope, that hope opens the way to trust and that a trusting relationship with another enables us to find meaning, purpose and belonging. At times the world can seam like a hostile place full of pain and suffering. Other times it can be a place of awe, wonder, beauty, and love. - Suffering Sometimes the pain we suffer is a wordless agony. We can be drowning in thick black chaotic hate oil, trapped behind glass unable to speak, sinking into a hole inside ourselves, or spending all our energy holding ourselves together terrified of annihilation. We can feel that we are real and no one else is, or everyone else is real and we are not. We can feel so lonely that we chase love and scare people away and then fall into despair and retreat from the world. Very often its so hard to ask for what we need as it touches the pain of what we never had. - The Relationship Perhaps we need to know that we are not alone, that others have felt and do feel as we do, to be in the presence of another, to feel seen, felt and understood. - Decisions If you are trying to work out whether you would like to work together, look at my photo, read my words and trust your instinct as to what feels right for you in this moment. Perhaps it is the time for something new. - Training, qualifications and experience I have a Masters in Integrative Psychotherapy (level 7) with the Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute. I have 5 years of experience working as an Integrative Counsellor.

I work with

Individuals over the age of 18

I can help with

Abuse ADHD Anxiety Attachment disorder Autism Avoidant personality disorder Behaviour problems Bereavement Bullying Burnout Childhood bereavement Childhood bullying Complex PTSD Depression Dissociation Domestic abuse Emotional abuse Family issues Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) High sensitivity LGBTQ+ counselling Loneliness Low self-confidence Low self-esteem Mental health Narcissistic abuse Neurodiversity Panic attacks Perfectionism People pleasing Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Relationship problems Schizoid personality disorder Separation and divorce Separation anxiety Social anxiety Spirituality Stress Trauma Work-related stress