Bradley Riddell

This listing is for online sessions only.

The address given is my home address but I am not available for home visits just online sessions

I am an integratively trained therapist which means I use a variety of different approaches with clients depending upon their situation, their issue, their preference and /or their suitability for the approach.

I fit the approach to the client not the other way around.

I have recently been training with the NCHP - the National; College of hypnosis & Psychotherapy in London - so I now offer hypno informed approaches too.

Although my website states "addiction" in the itle that is not what I am limited to. Trauma, depression, anxiety & relational issues are all entangled in addiction's grip but I work with these issues as standalone issues outside the addiction remit too, so don't be under the illusion you have to be "addicted " to work me; all clients are welcome... 

I currently have availability.

I work from 10am until 10pm Monday - Friday.

I am Integratively trained with over 20 years of experience, meaning I have trained in many different modalities so I can fit the therapy to you, rather then you to the therapy.

I am 60+ years of age so have experience of life too, to add to my formal training & have undertaken many years of additional trainings too, as required to stay up to date.

I work in person & online.

I specialise in addiction, anxiety, depression & relationships, both with self & other, having had personal lived experience of them all myself. 

I combine a mindful, cognitive, emotional, psychodynamic approach one with a hypno informed approach too as an Integrative therapist would & should.

All approaches work with the dynamics of the mind & all psychotherapy aims to sort the facts from the fictions, or the real from phantasy. Just as dreams are real so too are phantasy's & both are instructive & helpful & informative.

Bruce Ecker鈥檚 Emotional Memory Reconsolidation approach pioneers a new way to work with 鈥渆motional learnings" that rewrites learnt memories to radically alter long entrenched behaviours emanating from underlying beliefs or 鈥淪chema鈥檚鈥�. 

In 1997 - 2000 Neuroscientist's discovered that memories could be "unlocked" given the right conditions. This had been thought impossible up until then & was a major breakthrough in Psychotherapy & this is the approach I follow.

Permanent change can be brought about by an experiential sequence of understanding of our emotional learnings or "schema's". This applies to all psychological functioning's both healthy & unhealthy. ALL behaviours & beliefs make sense on an emotional level if not a rational cognitive one & this is where the confusion & distress arises & this is where I can help you to rewrite those deeply buried emotional learnings to free you forever of the symptoms it endlessly & distressingly repeats. 

Call for further info or visit my website @ www.addiction-counselling.org.uk 

I use an integrative approach, which means I use different approaches rather than one.

My approach uses psychodynamic, person-centred, hypnotherapeutic, IFS - Internal Family Systems, or 鈥減arts鈥� therapy, guided imagery, all with a Compassion Focused Person-Centred foundation.

I work in a person-centred, solution-focused, integrative way.

I do nothing without your full & frank acceptance & agreement.

I also work with past trauma's explicitly using a Human Given's "Rewind Technique" which has the massive benefit of you not having to go through the details of your story risking re-traumatisation. You are, of course, very welcome to tell me as much as you would like to but it is never a requirement of the Human Givens approach embodied in the "Rewind" approach that you must. In fact if the memory is too painful you don't have to tell me anything about it at all because you already know all the details & that is more than sufficient for the purposes of the approaches I use.

Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, relationships & Trauma are seldom not present in therapy sessions, the only thing that differs is the intensity, duration & frequency with which they make their appearance.

We have ALL suffered & will always all suffer in our journey through life. The problem is not the fact of suffering it is the fear of it happening that leads to avoidant behaviours that entrench rather than free us of our fears.

Learning how to turn towards our fears rather than turning resolutely & repetitively away from them can help us restore balance & equilibrium in our emotional lives which brings us to a sense of empowerment with our ability to regulate our emotions & tolerate our distress.

The first session affords you the opportunity to check in with me & my way of working. It is so important that the counsellor/client 鈥渇it鈥� is a good one; relationship is hugely important in the therapeutic encounter & not everyone 鈥渃onnects鈥� in the same way, so this session is about our first moment of meeting, no pressure, no expectation, just an opportunity to be in the same space together to get a sense of our process & each other as a collaboration.

I will introduce you to relaxation techniques, connecting with your breathing as a resource you carry with you wherever you go & the mind body connection that can lead to a befriending of our nervous system allowing us to manage our emotions in ways we may never have dreamed possible.

"Emotions will trump logic every time" is a well known expression in the psychotherapeutic world born out by such approaches as EMDR, IEMT, IPNB & EMRC to name but a few & Hypnosis based approaches are also hugely freeing for many, many people who may otherwise never have thought them useful or credible. I will introduce you to all these approaches but never impose any upon you but gently encourage you to give them a go without any expectation other than an open mind.

As an American psychotherapist Bill O'Hanlon quite insightfully noticed & said;

"...all therapist's use hypnosis, they just don't know it..." 

and I agree wholeheartedly. 

It really doesn't matter what approach you use, what matters is does it help? And if it does, carry on with it & this is the very emotional underpinning that also entrenches unhealthy behaviours like addictions & obsessions. What's important is in being able to tell the difference between the two, also referred to as "...separating fact from fiction..." & that is something we will explore both in this first session & throughout future sessions.

O'Hanlon also said;

"...you don't have to believe this will work...you just have to want it too..."

when you're ready, call.....