Welcome to Talk Dynamic personal therapy
Counselling & Online Therapy - talk through life's challenges
Welcome to Talk Dynamic Counselling
CBT offer
Do you feel anxious, depressed, have ruminating and negative thoughts, unhelpful habits that you can’t stop, compulsive behaviours that trap you in a cycle of repetition or fears and phobias that seem uncontrollable?
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy or CBT is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as a first choice of treatment for these and many other common mental health problems.
However, at present, NHS waiting lists are long for such treatment and many people will be offered group or online CBT courses. Whilst these can be helpful, they are not as individual and supportive as working with a CBT practitioner.
What is CBT?
CBT is a talking therapy that helps you understand that your thoughts, feelings, behaviour and physical sensations are connected. In changing one, you can change the others. Sad feelings can sometime lead to negative thoughts and actions. In noticing and changing these unhelpful thoughts and actions, we can gradually feel better. I am currently training to diploma level in this approach and can offer CBT sessions at a discount during my training period.
What’s involved?
Working together we will assess your problems, consider how they affect you personally, and agree a treatment plan. I will help you learn evidence-based CBT techniques that you can use yourself. The techniques offered and how and why they can help you will be discussed in the therapy sessions.
Working with goals
- We will set some specific goals for what you want to work on
- We will use measuring tools to monitor changes
- You will need to commit to doing independent work outside sessions such as thought records and mood diaries
Modality
I offer in person and online (video) appointments for the CBT sessions.
How long will it take?
Session are 50 minutes long and the number of sessions varies depending on your needs. It is possible that between 6 and 20 sessions can be sufficient for a client to notice improvement. We will regularly review your progress and this will help work out the number of sessions you require.
Contact
Please email me if you are interested so we can set up an intro call to discuss your needs:
See what people are saying about Lisa at Talk Dynamic….
'I am happy to recommend Lisa as a great professional with an impressive background in the field of therapy, an emphatic and kind person. I've been working with her for the past year and she has provided me with all the support I needed to tackle all the matters I needed to, while helping and guiding me through the process of healing my childhood trauma and understand and coping with my chronic illness.’
Client F
‘I have found Lisa to be a calm, considerate and patient therapist. She has really helped me to rationalise my thoughts and see the bigger picture. I have certainly learnt how to think through decisions in life without worrying about the reactions of those close to me. She is very skilled at helping you to recognise your own strengths and abilities. I am really enjoying my journey and I would highly recommend her in all aspects.’
Client H
Referrals
Trauma support with EMDR
Referrals
I accept referrals from other healthcare professionals, psychotherapists and counsellors and also refer clients on to other practitioners.
I am affiliated/approved to work with the following insurance companies:
Bupa
Aviva
Aetna Global Benefits
Vitality Health
Supervising and supporting
I am a Clinical Supervisor and can support trainee therapists in one to one or group supervision.
Who am I?
Trauma support with EMDR
Referrals
I am Lisa Hitchen, a BACP accredited counsellor, professionally trained in several approaches. I can offer short term or longer term therapeutic counselling in person, by telephone or online. I work with people of all ages and backgrounds from young children to older adults.
Lisa Hitchen
Integrative Therapist, EMDR Therapist & Clinical
I am Lisa Hitchen, a BACP accredited counsellor, professionally trained in several approaches. I can offer short term or longer term therapeutic counselling in person, by telephone or online. I work with people of all ages and backgrounds from young children to older adults.
Lisa Hitchen
Integrative Therapist, EMDR Therapist & Clinical Supervisor
Dip (Couns), Reg Member MBACP Accred
Member of EMDR UK
Trauma support with EMDR
Trauma support with EMDR
Trauma support with EMDR
EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing) is an evidence-based therapy to support people who experience disturbing memories and trauma from adverse life events.
If you would like to benefit from this therapy, please contact me. Or see the link to find out more: https://emdrworks.org/what-is-emdr/
Walk and talk therapy
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EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing) is an evidence-based therapy to support people who experience disturbing memories and trauma from adverse life events.
If you would like to benefit from this therapy, please contact me. Or see the link to find out more: https://emdrworks.org/what-is-emdr/
Walk and talk therapy
Despite the rain, therapy can sometimes work better walking side by side.
Walk with me and explore your internal world. Day light hours, variable accessible routes. Offered separately or as a blended approach.
Talk through life's challenges with professional counselling
Who needs counselling?
Talking things through can make a difference
Talking things through can make a difference
Anyone that is going through personal, emotional or mental health difficulties could benefit from counselling.
Anxiety, depression, panic attacks, lack of confidence, trauma, abuse, relationship or family problems, loss of a loved one. These are just some of the reasons people access counselling.
Talking things through can make a difference
Talking things through can make a difference
Talking things through can make a difference
How can counselling help?
Talking things through can make a difference
How can counselling help?
Through working together, I can help you to help yourself to make choices and changes, find acceptance and manage your life.
Investing time and energy in yourself could be the most powerful decision you make. It could help you see yourself and your world with a new perspective and give you the tools to make changes, get in touch with your feelings and become empowered.
What could counselling help with?
Personal journeys
We are all on personal journeys to learn about ourselves and our lives. The trouble is so often we only have the wisdom of insight after it is needed! Counselling can increase your awareness of what is going on around you and offer you the tools to make changes in the present moment. It can help you to reconsider where you are and reflect on the positive as well as reappraise the negative. If you are anxious, you can learn strategies to help you reduce your anxiety. Counselling can support you to develop ways to become more assertive. If you are disconnected emotionally, it can help you to feel your feelings and respond to them. We can explore anything you want to bring in a confidential space, without judgement.
Work problems
Whether you are working, moving towards work or planning a career, education or work break for whatever reason, working life is complex and full of changes. In this 21st century world, the speed and demands on our time have grown but the routines of working, travelling, caring and domestic life are still there. Counselling can help you find perspective on all this, explore tricky work problems or relationships, help you with a change in direction or a better balance between life and work.
Relationship struggles
Both individuals and couples can benefit from the process of counselling to explore relationships. It is an opportunity to hear yourself and your partner, to focus on how you relate to each other and examine areas of stuckness and negative patterns. It can help you work on difficulties without arguing, build a new relationship or mend one that is flagging. Big changes like having children can be explored. Or, if you are wanting to end a relationship, it can help you fathom out how to do this.
Growing pains
Children and young people have a lot of challenges these days. Rapidly changing technology with its social and visual demands for attention as well as the growing pains of changing bodies, moods, relationships. Environmental issues, wars and uncertainty. All can have an impact on mental health and different ways of coping might include self-harm, drugs or suicidal thoughts. Having counselled many young people, I see they often have a greater receptivity to counselling than adults - whether through play, creative work or talking therapy. Change can happen as a result. Whatever you or your child brings, we can explore it.
Family matters
We are social creatures and mostly live or are connected to family. But that does not mean we always get on. Being able to consider your family connections, past and present and the ways people relate to each other can help you to communicate differently. Also, to understand and accept how and why others are like they are - by standing in their shoes. Counselling could also help you to set up better boundaries, speak up for your needs and negotiate shared work and caring responsibilities.
Loss and change
Change and endings happen throughout life. The fast pace of moving forwards means ourselves and others expect us to get over loss and get on with life when we might not be ready to. Whether you have lost a parent, a partner, a child, moved home or country, lost contact with friends or lost your identity through new roles or decreased abilities, counselling can provide time and space to be heard, to feel and to acknowledge those changes.
Patterns from the past
Your childhood and the ways your carers built a relationship with you and the challenges of that past life all link to how you are today. Taking time to unpick this can help you in the present. You will become more aware of how others' ways of relating do not have to be how you have to be. Your new awareness will open up a greater field of vision for you - to see the past and to see the present with a wider and deeper perspective. That empowers you to makes the changes you want to make.
What clients say
Working on relationships...
'I had an incredibly positive experience of counselling with Lisa. Something of a lifeline during a very worrying relationship breakdown. Lisa's calm and holistic approach led me through initial crisis management towards picking up some of the deeper behaviours and attitudes which had led to the current sadness. I recommend her services wholeheartedly.' Client C
Working on self development...
'Lisa has been incredible and has given me a lot of support and has made me feel better. I didn't set a goal but I did express an interest in understanding my emotions and the reasons why things have happened - I feel Iike I have done this.' Client D
Working on trauma...
'Being able to come to a safe place and talk about things that are bothering me without being judged is absolutely priceless. I have increased self-awareness, reflected on certain issues and learnt to find my own way of dealing with them.' Client E
What I can help with...
or call me to discuss any other issue
Abuse, Anxiety, Addictions, Anger, Attachment issues, Autism, Behavioural issues, Cancer, Depression, Disability, Eating disorders, Health related issues, Identity issues, Infertility, LGBTQ+ issues, Men’s issues, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Obsessions, Online therapy, Phobias, Pregnancy, Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Relationships therapy, Redundancy, Self-harm, Sexual behaviour, Sexual identity, Spirituality, Stress, Telephone counselling, Trauma counselling, Work related issues.
