Our Services

A child-centred approach that is exclusive to every child. Having worked with children aged 3 to 12 years, The play therapy process will be individually tailored to your child’s chronological and biological age to ensure their needs are appropriately met. This process will be discussed with the parent/carer throughout the initial consultation session.

Our focus during the Play Therapy sessions include:
 

• Creating a friendly, trusting therapeutic relationship with your child 

• Encouraging your child to recreate their world within the safe therapeutic space

• Exploring a mix of directive and non-directive sessions to allow for progression within areas of concern.

Throughout Play Therapy, your child will have opportunities to explore and process pain based experiences through play. As Play Therapists we will make inquiries to enhance the therapeutic process. This process naturally extends your child’s deeper understanding of their unconscious process and will encourage them to rewire their developing brain. 

The results of play therapy will vary from one child to another, we always ensure parents/carers remain within the child’s process through providing support and feedback that will enhance your child’s therapeutic process. We offer Team Around the Child meetings to allow for opportunity to put your child's needs at the forefront of planning and service delivery between all stakeholders. 

We integrate a plethora of tools during play therapy including sand tray, therapeutic storytelling, creative arts, music, puppetry he use of miniatures to bring out repressed emotions, pain and trauma.

We have extensive experience of working with children who have experienced:
 

• Bereavement and loss

• Anxiety 

• Attachment

• Self-esteem, identity and belonging

• Peer relationships

• Sibling rivalry 

• Childhood depression

• Adoption, fostering and out of home care

• ADHD & ASD

• Bullying

As a Counsellor and Psychotherapist, Hannah works with adolescents and adults from a holistic viewpoint. This enables Hannah to incorporate your emotions, thoughts, behaviours and body language into sessions. Hannah's therapeutic use of self enables her to work with unconscious processes and transference, these are things that may be happening outside of your awareness. 

Hannah also draws on attachment and developmental theories which help me identify processes, developmental and relational needs. These could be needs that weren’t met or that you were missing in important developmental stages of your life.

Hannah uses an integrated, humanistic, person-centred approach to capture you as a whole person. 

Through counselling or psychotherapy, Hannah has experience of working with:
 

• Trauma

• Depression

• Anxiety

• Suicide Ideation / Self-harm

• Bereavement, loss & grief

• Abuse (childhood, domestic, sexual, emotional and physical)

• Family relationships

What would our counselling/psychotherapy session be like?
 

• An initial consultation is offered to get to know one another, allowing an opportunity for you to decide if we work well together and how I can support you within your therapeutic journey. 

• During our sessions together, I will be flexible to your needs and presentations. Allowing you to be guided by yourself. As your therapist, I will create awareness through insight.

• All sessions are confidential and offered within a safe, welcoming environment.

Relationships are as complex and unique as the individuals within them. They require nurturance, care, and sometimes some extra help.

 

Couples counselling (or relationship counselling) can help if you have come to a point in your relationship where you feel disconnected, or so caught in a negative pattern, you recognise the need for change.

It can also help people in the early stages of a relationship to develop the skills and strategies required to ensure their relationship thrives, through all of life’s challenges.
 

Our couples counsellor uses a combination of therapy modalities to support her clients, including Gottman Method Couples Therapy. She works collaboratively with couples to identify the strengths and challenges of the relationship, and to develop practical skills to help clients communicate with each other in a healthy and effective way, manage conflict, and nurture a culture of fondness and appreciation within the relationship.