Liz Silverston

I am a qualified BACP Accredited UKCRP Registered and Relate trained Couple Counsellor having over ten years counselling experience - five years couple counselling. I am based in Leamington Spa and work with both individuals and couples.

I work in a truly collaborative way with you whereby I see us working through issues in the counselling process in order to understand and make sense of them. Often couples in particular are concerned about difference in their relationship but I feel that difference is good and should therefore be celebrated. The difficulty is usually around how it is managed and accommodated but once acknowledged, this I think allows for change.

I always take time to acknowledge your bravery in taking the initial decision to come for counselling as it is by no means the easy option. The time spent in sessions will enable you to look at yourselves and your relationships in a different and healthier way. I want you to leave me with new tools and strategies for managing your lives.

I work with a variety of theories and my experience has informed me that systemic ideas and questioning can promote change and create difference . I like the concept particularly of curiosity and part of my work is around enabling you to be curious and also to make use of your wider systems in terms of family and friends as it is perhaps unrealistic to imagine that your partner can meet all your needs and expectations.

Psychodynamic theories suggest that the past impacts on the present and I feel that it is important to explore the past to try and make sense of it and then try and perhaps put the past in a container with a lid on it. Maybe that allows for the present and the future to be different.

I offer brief and long term counselling and it is important for me to reflect on the counselling process at regular intervals to be certain that you are finding the process helpful. A great deal of my work centres around loss eg loss of a relationship or an affair. I liken this to the cycle of grief, in terms of the emotions felt and the sorrow box that remains. It's a way of understanding that you can forgive but perhaps not forget.

I am passionate about my work and feel privileged to be a part of your counselling journey.

I work from comfortable private rooms close to the centre of  Leamington Spa. My charges are £45 for an hour and £50 at weekends. I am very flexible and work daytimes, evenings and weekends.

Email:lizzie_silverston@tiscali.co.uk
Website: www.eyetoeyecounselling.co.uk
Mobile: 07717297066 anytime