Welcome
Hi, my name is Judy Gaskell: welcome to my website!
I'm a BACP registered counsellor working in Winchester, Hampshire. I have been offering counselling, healing, and psychotherapy for twenty years and my aim is to support and facilitate your own personal growth and development. I am also a fully trained supervisor.I can offer help and support with any of the following issues:
- Bereavement, Loss and Separation
- Stress, depression, anxiety
- Relationships
- Personal Development & Growth
- Sexual, physical and emotional abuse counselling
As well as one-to-one counselling, I also offer whole family counselling to facilitate adjustment to separation, divorce or other difficult situations. I'm also prepared to work short term via telephone counselling.
The most important thing in all cases is to create a situation in which you are comfortable and at ease. My main aim is to create a positive environment in which I help you to help yourself and provide support if the therapy gets uncomfortable.
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Bereavement, Loss and Separation
The peaceful counselling room
overlooks the garden.
This is a natural, normal state of being which needs to be sensitively worked through in order for the grief to be processed, understood, and eventually let go of in one's own way and own time. The mourning state can take up to two years to heal; to delay the process can cause a state of melancholia which can manifest as a circle of depression.
Stress, depression, anxiety
Most of us go through challenging life experiences and may find times difficult. Stress is a positive state, providing we learn to find ways to manage it. Counseling enables us to discover skills and strategies to cope with our negative feelings and find a way forward to live our lives. It also allows us to explore deeper levels of our psyche.
Relationships
In order to relate effectively, we need to learn to listen sensitively to each other and accept different points of view; counselling helps us to do this, and can allow us to communicate in a creative way.
Personal Development & Growth
Personal Development involves becoming aware of ourselves and others, and of how we fit into the world. For change to occur, we need to develop a new way of seeing which involves being fully responsible for our actions in an open and honest way.
Sexual, physical and emotional abuse counselling
This can be a long and difficult journey, and needs times and respect on the part of the therapist in order for healing to eventually take place.
Please contact me to discuss what you need from counselling and how I can help.