Iris Guenther

Please give me a ring or send me an email to arrange a suitable time for a first 20min call or online meeting. 

I am normally available from Monday till Saturday during the day as well as have evening sessions available.

I also offer a limited number of concessionary sessions.

Hi! Do you belong to the 1 in 3 individuals who struggles with insecure attachment and suffers with anxiety or avoidance? Feeling secure in relationships with others is vital in living a content and satisfied life - be this in families, love or business relations. As it is becoming so much easier to isolate and withdraw from interpersonal relationships, it is also increasingly more challenging to initiate and maintain healthy, nurturing and trusting connections. Explore with me your learnt coping mechanisms and assess whether they are still useful or have started hindering you from being the person you would like to be.

The benefits of counselling are increasingly accepted today – being able to talk to someone, being listened to, heard and taken seriously are the key elements enabling people to make sense of their situation, feel affirmed in their humanity and hence become focused on finding viable solutions to move forward. Yet, verbalising our fears, discomforts and annoyances is sometimes not enough to release an array of deep-seated feelings such as grief, anger and emotional pain. Traumatic life events, an accumulation of unfavourable circumstances, being exposed to unhealthy environments for many years or pre-verbal traumatic experiences can have an impact on our bodies as well as our minds. 

Hence, looking at the interconnection between the mind and the body, I encourage my clients to see themselves as a sum of many parts which allows us to function, live, love and further develop. Through body awareness, mindfulness, visualisations and psycho-educational discussions, I hope to offer a variety of opportunities to create insights and forge new neurological pathways of understanding.

Having been trained as a humanistic counsellor seeking to integrate a multitude of therapies such as Person-centred therapy, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Gestalt, Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, Transactional Analysis, Internalised Family Systems, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, Exposure and Ritual Prevention Therapy, Somatic Therapy Sex & Couples Therapy, my work revolves around what suits the client's needs best and what supports each individual to free themselves from out-dated coping mechanisms while building new healthy ways of relating and living.

If this speaks to you and you would like to inquire further I offer free 20 min online sessions or a conversation on the phone. 

This will not only give you the opportunity to find out how I work but also help you choose whether I am the professional you feel you can trust and engage with on a deeper emotional level.

Single counselling sessions are 50min.

Couple counselling sessions are 60min at £60.