Welcome to Talk Dynamic personal therapy
Counselling & Online Therapy - talk through life's challenges
Welcome to Talk Dynamic Counselling
Opening up in-person therapy post Covid-19
With the Covid landscape shifting as we enter a second winter of living with this virus, I have increased the number of sessions I am offering for face to face client work.
I am fully vaccinated and continue to maintain social distancing by sitting 2 metres from clients in sessions with windows open for air circulation. I can also offer walk and talk options for therapy outside as well as telephone and online sessions.
Please contact me if you would like to know more about accessing therapy and the support I can provide. Call 07789 278820 for an initial no obligation discussion or send an email lisa@talkdynamic.co.uk so I can call you.
In person counselling, walk & talk, telephone or online is £50 for adults, £45 for under-18s and £60 for couples.
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
New for winter 2021
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
& specialist rehabilitation company Proclaim Care
Who am I?
New for winter 2021
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.
Trauma training in 2022
Next year I train in EMDR (eye movement
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.
Trauma training in 2022
Next year I train in EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing) so I can offer this evidence-based technique to support people who have experienced traumas. If you would like to be treated using EMDR during my training, I can offer this service at a reduced rate.
See the link to find out more:
New for winter 2021
New for winter 2021
New for winter 2021
Walk and talk therapy...
Stay outside and reduce risk of infection.
Walk with me and explore your internal world. Day light hours, variable accessible routes. Offered separately or as a blended approach with other therapies (therapy room/online/phone).
HIV service
Specialist low cost support for people living with HIV. During Covid, I suppor
Walk and talk therapy...
Stay outside and reduce risk of infection.
Walk with me and explore your internal world. Day light hours, variable accessible routes. Offered separately or as a blended approach with other therapies (therapy room/online/phone).
HIV service
Specialist low cost support for people living with HIV. During Covid, I supported individuals and couples living with HIV through an isolating and triggering period. Please contact me to discuss how I could help you.
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.
