Counselling

We often get requests for "Counselling" because this is a commonly used term. However, often people mean different things by this term.

Please see our Individual Therapy section, and our Cognitive Behaviour Therapy section to help you decide which approach is best for you.

Other services that may be helpful:

 

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Individual Therapy Group Therapy Couple therapy where both partners are affected or where relationship difficulties contribute to the issue Psychiatric review where medication might also be helpful

The Ashwood Practice, part of the Baker Duncan Partnership, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey Specialist Private Assessment and Treatment Services across the whole spectrum of psychological/mental health conditions and childhood developmental problems, including Aspergers Syndrome, Autism, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, ADHD and OCD. We offer a continuing service throughout childhood, adolescence and adulthood. The clinical problems we commonly encounter include depression, deliberate self-harm, anxiety - in all its forms, mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders and adjustments reactions in individuals and families in relation to traumatic seperation (including bereavement of parents, children and siblings) or other family crises such as divorce and domestic/family violence.

We have developed specialist expertise in assisting families who have adopted children with attachment problems and we have also set up a therapeutic re-parenting scheme to support foster-carers who are struggling with very challenging behaviour in younger children.