Anthea Hollingworth

I currently have availability for online therapy 

Mon - 09:00 - 17:00

Tues - 14:00 - 18:00

Wed - 09:00 - 12:30

Thus - 1430 - 18:00

Counselling and psychotherapy aim to significantly help our ability to manage our lives more effectively. If you are seeking help to find a better understanding of yourself, others and life events, this is the time to talk to a professionally trained counsellor and psychotherapist who can support you during your time of need to work through your difficulties.

I offer therapy in psychodynamic counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Trauma Focused CBT and EMDR, Mindfulness and continuing training in transference focused psychotherapy. I am ICO and enhanced DBS registered. As an Accredited Member of British Association for Counselling I adhere to their clinical ethical guidelines.

I have extensive experience working with a wide range of mental health issues including:

• interrelationships difficulties

• anxiety, stress, panic attacks

• depression

• phobias and OCD

• developmental attachment difficulties

• self-esteem, self-worth and low confidence issues

• eating disorders and self-harm

• relationship issues and co-dependency

• personality Disorders - BPD

• trauma, PTSD, cPTSD

• grief, loss and bereavement

I am registered with AXA, Aviva, WPA and Vitality Health as an approved practitioner

EMDR is an 8 Phased Protocol with the following Phases

Phase 1 A treatment plan is collaboratively created addressing any questions and setting expectations.

Phase 2 Grounding and stabilising skills are created e.g. a ‘safe place’ to use in and outside your sessions.

Phase 3 Assessment, specific questions are asked about a particular disturbing memory  to activate the negative experience and desired adaptive resolution.

Phase 4 sets of rapid Eye Movement (EMs), similar to REM sleep, using various forms of bilateral stimulation are recreated, such as a bar of moving lights or headphones, alternated with brief reports about what you are experiencing, thoughts, images, feelings continue processing until the past disturbing experience has been updated and adapted to a present perspective. The memory changes in such a way it becomes desensitised and loses its intensity simply becoming a neutral past memory.

Phase 5, integrates the installation of new insights and perspectives into your daily life.

Phase 6 A body Scan works through any residual somatic feelings left over.

Phase 7 Closes that target memory.

Phase 8 Re-evaluates any other associated memories that may also heal at the same time.

Transference Focused Psychotherapy is designed to help individuals with personality disorders namely BPD and NPD by utilising the relationship between therapist and client to explore and understand the emotions, thoughts, and behaviours. We focuses splitting defences involving seeing things in extremes, all good or all bad, that are used as coping mechanisms for conflicting emotions you  find difficult to manage or intolerable. Object relations are identified when they come into the therapeutic relationship to engage the process of working through. The aim is to gain a more integrated cohesive sense of self and identity, promoting emotional stability, psychological growth and healthy ways of relating to oneself and others. 

You will be asked to Fill out a Registration Form online prior to your Consultation and your first sessions will be the Assessment phase which may take up to 3 sessions to get an understanding of you and your aims and goals in therapy.