Pat Russell Psychotherapy & Hypnotherapy

DEPRESSION | | ANXIETY | | PHOBIAS | | PANIC | | SMOKING

Anyone experiencing deep stress or distress
knows it is profoundly disabling

and often felt as:

• professional burnout
  
• depression
  
• anxiety
  
• panic attacks
  
• frightening phobias
  
• overwhelming confusion

A crippling reaction to a situation can create a belief that life has changed for the worse and forever. But why condemn yourself to that?

Of course the past informs our work so we look at the 'system' that has shaped the person. But we live in the present and so mainly focus on it in therapy – to discover what is working and what isn’t and how things could be different.

Work is very interactive and solution-focused to help an individual understand and deal with a difficulty that has become disabling.

I integrate a variety of theories in each session. In fact, whatever is likely to work, to best support change in understanding and mood. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), Gestalt, NLP, systems theory and others have all proven their value. Psychotherapy, life coaching and hypnotherapy are integrated unless the client has an objection to hypnosis - which of course is respected.

Training is of little value if a therapist fears stepping into the breach. Previous clients know that I am open and happy to be challenged. After all it is your life, your landscape, your path and I am merely an interpreter of maps and terraine when you feel you have gone astray - or you wish to discover a new direction.


What problems might be brought?

Not coping.

Perhaps a major life change; unbearable pressures; 'known' fears or those that can't be explained; relentless stress that causes physical problems or insomnia; panic attacks; depression or feeling very low; phobias about presenting in public, eating in public, being in public, planes, trains, tubes, driving on motorways; relationship difficulties; professional changes and loss; bereavement; post-traumatic stress disorder; very troubling memories from the past.

Anything that causes you great stress and distress.



Discussion is confidential. Goals are jointly set. Only if the person indicates likely harm to self or to others would the GP be contacted, with the client’s knowledge. Companies who commission my services for stress management sessions with employees are not given content of sessions.