Natasha Lumley

I currently have limited availability for both online and face to face sessions. I do not currently offer weekend sessions. 

Fully registered and accredited, with over 14 years of experience, offering adults, young adults and couples mental health support, online, over the phone and in person.

Whether you are struggling with the overwhelm of anxiety, the exhausting burden of depression, the pain of loss or bereavement, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem or body image, longing to find a new direction in your life, or just need some support, counselling gives you a safe, non-judgmental, accepting place to explore these troubles, and gain a different perspective. Counselling enables us to have a deeper understanding of ourselves, and the situations which are causing us distress, giving us greater self-awareness and enabling us to shape and develop our lives and ourselves.

Humanistic counselling is a model of counselling which allows the client to be in control of the direction of the work. As your counsellor, my role is not to tell you what to do, or offer any judgements. I am there to enable you to reach your own conclusions and to guide you in this process. This can happen through deeper exploration, through giving you space and time to express and allow your emotions, or by learning coping mechanisms.

I am passionate about the potential counselling has to enable changes for us all, and my years of experience have only grown this passion further, as I see people gain so much from the process of counselling, time and time again.

I have experience working in private practice, in an agency setting, in a hospice and in GP practices. Along with my advanced diploma in humanistic counselling, I have completed a Certificate in Supervision of Counselling course, as well as a Couples Counselling Certificate course and many continuing professional development workshops. I work with adults, young people and couples.

Visit counselling-space.com for more information.

Specialising in:

ADHD

Anxiety

Depression

Loss/Bereavement

Relationship difficulties

Self-esteem

Sexuality

The first session will begin with us reading through the counselling agreement, so that you are clear about important elements such as confidentiality. 

We can then begin to explore what has brought you to counselling and what you hope to gain from the experience. 

It will give you a chance to get a feel for how I work and gives us both an opporunity to consider whether we feel we would be a good match working together.

I currently have limited availability for both online and face to face sessions. 

I do not currently offer weekend sessions.

Clinical supervision online or in person

Supervision is a vital source of support and learning and an opportunity to dive into all the different elements of the work we are doing with our clients.

My approach to supervision is loosely based on the Seven-Eyed Model of Supervision (Peter Hawkins & Robin Shohet in 1985). The Seven-Eyed Model of Supervision is a model that includes a focus on the relationships between client and therapist, therapist and supervisor and how these fit into the wider context.

The seven eyes are:

1. Focus on the client in terms of what they bring and how they present - what actually happened in the session.

2. Focusing on interventions - how the therapist intervened and why those interventions were used. How useful were they?

3. Focusing on the relationship between the client and the therapist.

4. Focusing on the therapist’s process.

5. Focusing on the relationship between therapist and supervisor.

6. The supervisor focusing on their own process.

7. Focusing on the wider context within which the work is happening and how this might be impacting the work.

Supervision should be a collaborative process, whereby therapist and supervisor explore the work together, to work towards the best outcome for the client, whilst supporting the on-going development and well-being of the therapist.

I offer supervisees a contained space, without judgement, where they are able to bring the highs and lows of their work and reflect on the different elements involved from these different perspectives.

A good supervision session will leave both supervisee and supervisor feeling energised, engaged and passionate about the important work that we are doing. 

Sessions can be either 60 minutes or 90 minutes.

Sessions can be face to face at Hamblys Natural Health Centre, Wadhurst, East Sussex or online via Zoom.

Supervision fees are £70 for 90 minutes and £50 for 60 minutes.