Michael | Therapist

Introduction

Stress has become common in our age, including stress associated with financial difficulties, interpersonal conflict, chronic disease or cancer.  Almost everyone experiences difficulties in relationships at some stage in their lives and I provide professional counselling for adults, adolescents, and parents of young children in that situation. I have experience applying long-term programs of cognitive-emotive-behaviour therapy to help adults overcome the deleterious effects of childhood sexual abuse and develop self-assertive self-esteem after experiencing emotional abuse by their parents during childhood.

Clarifying difficulties or circumstances which trouble or distress us always helps us manage our situation to our advantage. I can usually suggest strategies and prompt questions for clarifying circumstances and people who contribute to our stress and then consider applying practical techniques for reducing feelings of stress until the cause has been addressed and eliminated or minimized.

My confidential empathetic encounters allow people to explain their difficulties or circumstances and guide them to clarify the issues and find practical strategies and alternatives for working through these challenges and moving towards satisfactory resolutions. I also have experience using hypnosis with teenagers to help identify repressed origins of emotional trauma. Hypnotherapy is effective at alleviating anxiety and phobias.

As a promotion, I now offer a second one-hour consultation at no charge after the first paid one-hour consultation.   

My experience includes working as an engineer, teacher, university lecturer, research worker, author, child-care worker, and representative of a hire company. I also have experience as a father successfully guiding my hyperactive son to successful adulthood, more than 30 years managing the ups and downs of marriage, and several years gaining experience as an enthusiastic but non-interfering father-in-law and grandfather.

regards Michael