Kim Mitchell
I am a qualified and experienced counsellor offering a calm and
confidential setting to meet the challenges you may be facing in life.
Whether you need a space to share your current situation or to process a
past experience, I offer a therapeutic relationship of acceptance and
compassion.
Sometimes we feel stuck or distressed. It can be hard to find a way
through such challenges alone. What I offer is a collaboration in
working through those difficulties.
Since qualifying in 2008, I have worked in both voluntary and charitable
sectors and volunteered within the NHS. I am accredited with the BACP,
and work as an integrative counsellor (BSc Hons) meaning, I draw on
multiple, different therapeutic approaches adapting how I work to what
suits you best. I also offer EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation
Reprocessing) and Internal Family Systems, Level 2.
I have specialist skills in dealing with Trauma and complex family
relationships.
While I am an integrative counsellor, I am particularly focused on a
compassion- focused approach. Compassion-focused therapy acknowledges
that we all suffer due to evolution and life experiences, and that we
develop safety strategies that are not always helpful to us in our day
to day lives.
By developing self compassion, the critical but well-intentioned aspects
of ourselves become willing to not work so hard. In a more compassionate
frame of mind, we can begin to develop more helpful ways to cope.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is an evidence based therapeutic model
developed to create a more balanced and harmonious internal system,
promote greater trust of Self and Self leadership. It allows parts of
ourselves that carry burdens to be liberated from their burdens, for
example shame or hurt from the past and choose a more balanced way of
being.
I also offer Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), an
evidence-based therapy developed to treat post-traumatic stress
disorder. It is now used to treat a wide range of mental health issues,
helping to identify, process and desensitise challenging memories.
Together, we can identify what your goal is for therapy and explore your
options so you can make choices that suit you as an individual and begin
to develop more helpful and harmonious coping strategies for your
future. I offer short and long-term therapeutic work.
