About Us
ABOUT US
ABOUT US
As a private therapy centre there are no lengthy waiting lists and you are not restricted to a few sessions of CBT. The therapists at the Coleby Centre offer flexibility and choice about when you come, receiving the type of therapy that's right for you, and at a pace that suits you. The therapists offer sessions from early in the morning to late at night, also at the weekend, so there is plenty of scope to find a time to suit your lifestyle.
Clients who seek psychotherapy and counselling at the Coleby Centre can achieve help in:
- Clarifying emotions
- Understanding their actions - past and present
- Identifying needs and wants
- Untangling problems that hold them back
- Experimenting with new ways of being themselves
- Developing better ways of living
- Finding new responses to old problems
- Finding new ways of seeing and thinking about themselves, others and life
There are a wide range of therapies available for adults, adolescents and couples.
Therapies include:
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Integrative Psychotherapy
- Relationship Therapy
- Couples Counselling
- Transactional Analysis (TA)
- Person-Centred Counselling
- Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy (NLP)
- Therapeutic Hypnosis
- EMDR
- Humanistic Counselling
Qualified Input
Traditionally a counsellor trains for three years and a psychotherapist for four to five years and often has a degree in psychology. Counselling tends to be focused on a current issue and psychotherapy tends to be a deeper, more far-reaching examination of who the client is and all areas of their life.
Currently, anyone can call themselves a counsellor as there are no government regulations regarding alternative therapies.
However, there are four regulating and governing bodies in the field of counselling and psychotherapy.
All Coleby Centre therapists belong to at least one of these organisations:
This means all Coleby counsellors and psychotherapists are monitored on a regular basis, have completed comprehensive training and been awarded a qualification. They are also required to complete ongoing professional development and adhere to a strict code of ethics, and are DBS checked.
A counselling service is available on the NHS but waiting lists tend to be extremely long. Choosing a private therapist allows the client to make appointments to suit their own schedule, keeping the course of therapy under their own control.
Gill Coleby
Psychotherapist & Counsellor
BA (Hons) Psych, MNACHP, NLPtCA Acc, TLTA, UKCP
I am an experienced integrative psychotherapist and I offer a warm, supportive and confidential space where individuals and couples can explore their difficulties. I believe therapy is all about empowering you to make choices and finding ways to change those things that can feel impossible and overwhelming. There are many different styles of therapy that can help people change – but for the change to become a new habit and happen naturally the changes need to be integrated inside and this is why the therapeutic relationship is so important. Feeling the genuine warmth and regard of another human, being heard and supported in a confidential space is the glue that binds the change so that you can live your life in the best possible way.
I have 30 years experience of working both long and short term with adults and couples and this may be face to face, online, Facetime or on the phone.
As an integrative therapist I believe everyone is different and so I incorporate a range of approaches in order to best meet the client's needs and difficulties. Examples of these different styles are:
- Cognitive behavioural therapy CBT
- Neuro linguistic psychotherapy NLP
- EMDR
- Relational counselling
- Therapeutic hypnosis
