Counselling

Counselling in Horsforth, Leeds (LS18)

Steve Cordingley, BACP Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist and clinical supervisor

Confidential counselling for Individuals, Couples and Families struggling with current relationships at home or at work, family, work-related, life-stage, stress, persistent and continuing challenges from past relationships, conflict, a difficult or traumatic childhood, issues from the past or any difficulty that is important to you and your loved ones and not reaching a natural resolution on its own.

Qualified and Professionally Accredited Counsellor

If you haven't seen them already, you might like to have a look at My Training & Qualifications

Therapy Charges, Cancellation and Confidentiality

Information about counselling fees & my cancellations policy can be found here and information about confidentiality in counselling, here.

How I Work (Brief Summary) Reconnection with Experience, Facilitating Discovery, Change & Transformation I work both as a counsellor and psychotherapist.  Sessions are usually in 50-minute or 90-minute slots, most often as weekly sessions though sometimes it can be helpful and appropriate to meet more than once each week for a time. I prefer to work toward specific (and usually properly formulated and identified), therapeutic goals over whatever timescale it takes to achieve those goals - short, medium or long-term\open-ended therapy.  These goals can be set entirely by you or by us working together, so it doesn't matter if you are not sure what you are trying to move toward - we can work that out together if that is what you prefer. Read more...

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Both the ethics policies of my professional regulating body and English law require that I keep what you tell me confidential and do not disclose to others either that you are seeing a therapist or the content of sessions.

There are, however, some important limitations to confidentiality that it will be helpful for you to be aware of.  Firstly, if I believe you are in imminent danger of harming yourself or another, I am obliged to take the necessary steps to protect you or them.  The risk of harm must genuinely be imminent and does not include you needing to talk in therapy about your feelings regarding harming yourself or another.  The risk must also be serious - wanting to cut yourself, for example, does not meet the criteria for a breach of your confidentiality.  And 'imminent' means that you are about to go and do something.  The breach would usually be alerting the emergency services or possibly your GP.   And that is as far as a breach of your confidentiality can go in counselling.  I cannot, for example, give details of anything else you have disclosed to me unless it is directly relevant to your or another's immediate safety.   Under almost all circumstances, this would be done with your full knowledge and participation but it is possible, although rare, that there could be a time when it might be necessary for me to take action without your approval.

Another, less widely known limitation to confidentiality is that, if the subject of your counselling is the same as the subject of a Court case, the Courts can sometimes ask for copies of your records.  The important thing to note is that it is not sufficient for you to be seeing a therapist and to be going through a court case - the subject of both must be the same, such as an accident has occurred that has resulted in your seeking therapy and has also resulted in a court case.  Again, if such a thing was happening, you would be fully aware of what was being given.

Please feel free to discuss with me how confidentiality might work in your case.

For more on confidentiality in counselling and psychotherapy, see BACP confidentiality information

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I see/work with: Individuals, couples, families, groups I am able to offer open-ended counselling and psychotherapy I can work in short-term and brief interventions I can offer planned, structured therapy (not CBT) I am also trained to work by telephone and, where appropriate, e-mail Struggling with current relationships at home or at work family, work-related, life-stage, stress, persistent and continuing challenges from past relationships, a difficult or traumatic childhood and past abuse Burnout and collapse of professional function Anger   (links to my other site dedicated to anger) Examples of the kind of things people bring to counselling include: Current relationships at home or at work Family issues Conflict, anger and conflict resolution Persistent and continuing challenges in your relationship Persistent and continuing challenges from past relationships A difficult childhood/adversity during childhood, childhood abandonment Critical and punishing parents Burnout and collapse of professional function Work-related difficulties Stress Dealing with change - both enforced and chosen Life-stage events Abuse and Trauma I also have experience in infertility, assisted conception and adoption & fostering.  (Not search and initial contact with birth family/parents.) Depression Anxiety Panic attacks Chronic Illness Bereavement and Loss Back to Top

My Practice Address

I see clients at my main practice address: The Therapy Rooms at 69A, New Road Side, Horsforth, Leeds LS18.  There is on street parking for up to 2-hours and more parking in adjacent streets.

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My Working Style Some of my clients have given feedback on my working style and what they have found helpful and not so helpful.  Among the things that they have said they find helpful is that I am a real person, actively present on the journey of discovery and change - I don't tend to sit and nod blankly or repeat what you have just said without any apparent purpose.  I do tend to join with you in searching and discovering and will say if I feel we are missing something or passing something that warrants further consideration.

Concerned About Mental Illness? Due to my experience in NHS-led primary and secondary care clinical work, I am also able to reassure clients when they feel there may be some underlying mental health difficulty that is driving their life or to tell clients how to go about getting an appropriate medical assessment if it might be helpful. See also Psychotherapy page.