Katharine Mead

Appointments are available Monday to Thursday in the afternoon and evening between 2pm and 9pm.

Experienced Â鶹ԭ´´ Accredited Counsellor offering long or short-term work for individuals or couples. Evening appointments available.

We can all have times when life feels too much and problems can feel too big to deal with on our own. It can be difficult to talk about these things with those closest to us for fear of upsetting others, feeling judged or misunderstood. This is where talking with a counsellor can help and just having the space to explore things can make all the difference. Areas that I am experienced in working with are depression or low mood, stress, anxiety, bereavement and loss, relationship difficulties, sexual problems, trauma such as sexual violation, emotional, physical or sexual abuse, addictions, disordered eating patterns.

I can offer a private, comfortable space for difficulties to be worked through in a confidential, non-judgmental and respectful way. This may involve looking at unresolved issues from the past and how this is affecting you now or it may be coping with the stresses of managing life on a day-to-day basis. You may not even know why you feel like you do, you just know you want to do something about it and this is the first step to recovery.

I aim to offer a safe place for you to talk, be heard and be able to explore and work through different thoughts, feelings and emotions. This can lead to greater understanding, insight and acceptance of what might be going on enabling you to continue with life in a more manageable way and to explore a way forward.

As a couple you may have difficulty in your relationship with communication, letting the other person know how you feel and identifying your own needs and getting those needs met. An affair may have happened or there may be sexual problems which can be difficult to even acknowledge, much less talk about. That's where I can help to give you a place to talk about these things and help you as a couple to talk to each other in a more honest, respectful and loving way, whilst being able to identify what each individual wants and needs and how this can be met within the relationship.

It may also be that the relationship is not fulfilling those needs anymore and you need help with how to go about making changes, which may include ending the relationship and finding ways of doing this in a less destructive way.