Rate Josephine Patten-Walsh

Therapy is a proven way of helping us to face difficulties, manage emotional stresses and to recover from challenging experiences.

Skilled at enabling clients to feel safe, I am also highly effective at helping you to understand your emotions, manage relationships and stop unhelpful behaviours.

Whether it is short term therapy you require to help manage a one-off situation or longer-term input, leading to greater self-understanding, I can promise we will work together using ground-breaking therapy to meet your needs.

With separate qualifications enabling work with adults, adolescents, couples and clinical supervisees, I am also one of only a handful of UK Psychotherapists trained in AEDP, a trauma-informed integrative combination of neurobiology and traditional Psychotherapy. I am also trained in contemporary CBT and the use of creative interventions and hold enhanced DBS status for both children and vulnerable adults.

BACP Accredited status means I have successfully demonstrated a high level of proficiency as a Counsellor and Psychotherapist within the BACP ethical framework, assuring you of my competence whilst my Clinical Supervision Qualification demonstrates that you can trust my professionalism.

Here are some examples of things I can help you with...

Loss and change due to bereavement, work or family issues.

Behaving in ways you know are not helpful but can't seem to stop?

Relationships : are you having problems with family, friends or people at work? Have people let you down in some way or broken your trust due to betrayals, cheating, or abusive behaviours towards you or loved ones? Maybe you feel lonely and want to know how to address this?

Addictions: Are family members or you abusing drugs, alcohol or in gambling debt?

Would you like to find out how to support others or how to help yourself with this and why it is that people get caught up in various addictive behaviours

Tragic events: anything from crime to suicide or mental breakdown, domestic abuse and sexual assaults, can take us by surprise, leaving us reeling from their impact. Nothing in life has prepared us for how to cope with this. How can we respond or even carry on with life?

I have had first hand experience of and training in several of the above including dealings with the criminal justice system. Hopefully I can help you navigate this uncharted territory and in the process come up with some answers.

Mental health : Have you or someone you know begun to self-harm or have abnormal eating patterns or compulsive behaviours or suffer from insomnia? Or maybe experience severe anxiety and/or panic attacks? Or behave in confusing or uncharacteristic ways and you wonder what if anything can be done about this?

If so rest assured that I can provide a safe environment in which to explore your concerns about yourself or others.

Things in your past? Maybe you simply want to say things in confidence which need to be heard by a non-judgemental listener.

Each person has a story to tell and yours will be heard both in safety and in the strictest confidence.

Maybe you just want answers to why something has happened - or keeps happening - to you or loved ones?

Whatever it is you want to bring, I am here to help adults, couples and teenagers overcome obstacles to happier lives and fulfilling relationships.

Other specialisms include my research into the mental health impact of Neurodivergence (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia) as part of my Counselling degree, ongoing study of PTSD and Complex Trauma plus an interest in the link between minority stress and diversity issues, particularly the impact of migration on second and third generations.