Welcome to Connect Counselling - where talking can be the key to the life changes you long for ...
I am a counsellor working face to face and online with clients who feel that they need extra emotional support in their lives. I see clients with a variety of problems including anxiety and depression and have a specialism working with clients dealing with life changes and loss.
Working together we can make meaning of your past and current struggles to help you move forward with resilience and confidence.
Are you...
Feeling disconnected and unsure about life?
Anxious or overwhelmed by decisions?
Feeling a sense of loss?
Struggling with relationships?
Recently bereaved?
Facing a change in your circumstances?
Have you ...
Ever thought about the benefits of talking to a trained counsellor?
Ever wondered if talking to someone removed from your family and friends could help?
Ever felt properly listened to?
If any of the above rings true for you and you would like some support while working through your challenges, please get in touch. You do not have to struggle alone. I can help you. It's good to talk and I am trained to listen.
Anne-Marie Cooper-Kilroy
Counsellor MBACP
"I understand that making the first contact with a therapist can feel frightening or even overwhelming.
"But if you do decide to get in touch, we will work together at your own pace. With no pressure or judgement, we will try to connect the dots of whatever challenges you are facing now.
"My foundations in psychodynamic counselling means that, not only will we talk about what is happening now, but we will also talk about your previous life experiences and explore how what is happening now may have originated in your younger years.
"How might I help you? Everybody has problems, but for some working through them is more challenging than for others; perhaps because of an early childhood experience or trauma, or a relationship problem, or a feeling of sadness that might feel too hard or frightening to unpack alone. I can help.
"It's ok not to be ok, but you don't have to be alone with your struggle. Counselling will help you make meaning of how and why you are feeling the way you do and enable you to move forward with resilience and confidence.
"I very much look forward to meeting you ..."
Anne-Marie Cooper-Kilroy
Counsellor MBACP
Counselling has been described as the 'talking cure'.
When people get together and share their concerns and struggles, the problem is often reduced - simply by saying it out loud with time and space to think.
Sometimes our worries feel overwhelming and we find it hard to speak to our friends or family. If this feels like you, then perhaps working with a counsellor might be just what you need. There can be a freedom in a therapy room for a client who is able to share their worries and thoughts with someone who is totally removed from your family and social circles.
There is no judgement, just listening.
Ideally, as an individual client, we would see each other every week at a regular time. The session is for you to talk about whatever is on your mind - there is no agenda, we will simply work together. Individual counselling is open-ended, so there is no time limit.
When working with couples I like to give both parties the opportunity to see me, both together and individually, with the relationship as the focus of the work. Together we will work out a schedule of meetings - weekly or fortnightly - usually for 8-10 sessions but open to variation according to the nature and complexity of the work.
Group sessions will be advertised throughout the year. Each will follow a theme and run for eight weeks, with no more than six clients in any one group.
Clients often say that it feels strange to devote a period of time to talking about themselves. However, they unanimously agree that it brings a certain freedom also.
Therapy provides a place to think and be listened to; somewhere to talk safely through problems or to have space for thought and reflection.
As a stranger, trained to listen and respond, I am able to help you unpick and understand the challenges you are facing. The very fact that I am a stranger enables you to be honest with how you are feeling - you don't have to worry about my approval or otherwise. Instead, I am able to empathise and walk with you through your challenges or suffering and, hopefully, help enable change and new thinking.
So, something which might feel strange at the beginning of your therapeutic journey soon becomes valuable as it enables you to discover the authentic you without judgement.
I hope you decide to get in touch.
I am working via a variety of media to suit each client's individual needs and requirements.
Please get in contact to discuss availability and how you would feel most comfortably working.
I very much look forward to hearing from you.
Connect Counselling
Anne-Marie Cooper-Kilroy
Latrobe Cottage
21 St Cuthbert's Street
Bedford
MK40 3JB
helloconnectcounselling@gmail.com
07999 473687
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