Unusual Times

My name is Deborah Hepburn and I am an experienced Psychotherapist and Counsellor, working in the Wiltshire/Gloucestershire area based in Cirencester. I have a diploma in Advanced Transactional Analysis psychotherapy. I am a member of the UK Association for Transactional Analysis. I work within the ethical codes of the MBACP, UKCP and UKATA. My approach is based on Transactional Analysis (TA), but I also use other forms of theraputic techniques tailoring to a clients individual needs. TA provides ways of looking at people's history, and the unhelpful patterns they tend to repeat in their lives, and the ways they relate to others. It is suited both to short-term goal-focussed counselling, and longer-term more exploratory psychotherapy. People who contact me are experiencing feelings of anxiety, depression, or other life struggles that have an adverse impact on their day to day lives. The approach I use begins with looking at past history, current relationships and patterns of behaviour that may have become fixed or stuck, and then working towards finding ways to understand and change,(if required), these patterns of behaviour to help you in day to day life. My therapy sessions are designed to provide patients with effective tools to help them see life from a more positive perspective. I aim to provide a safe, non-judgemental, empathic and confidential environment, in which people can talk about whatever they want, explore their experiences, discuss their problems and difficulties, decide what they want to change, and consider how to cope with what they can't change.