Therapy shaped by you.
Welcome to Fern Haven Therapy, offering in person counselling sessions in Newport, Wales, and online/telephone sessions anywhere in the UK.
Working with you to create an experience suited to your comfort, whatever you are facing.
How I work.
I am a Pluralistic Counsellor, so what does this mean?
A Pluralistic Counsellor uses different theories and approaches to make the experience comfortable and useful to you as an individual.
I understand no single person is the same, so what suits others may not be helpful or comfortable to you. Being a Pluralistic Counsellor means working together to ensure you get the most out of our time together.
Perhaps one session you would like a quiet approach from me, to be empathic and listen. Other sessions you make want me to feedback and gently challenge you more, or perhaps use more tools together.
Different Counselling Approaches I can use.
Person Centered
This approach is more the “listening ear”, I will be compassionate and warm, not directing you within the session but instead offering a calm presence to listen whilst you explore challenges, offering validation and companionship.
Psychodynamic
This approach focuses on links from the past to the present, exploring what influences childhood and early years may have on the here and now, creating a sense of repeated patterns that we may find unhelpful.
CBT
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a more structured method of counselling, focusing on behavioral patterns and negative thoughts, restructuring these for more helpful styles of thinking and ways of behaving.
Gestalt
Gestalt is about the here and now, looking at your level of self-awareness. We can use tools like empty chair or two chair to explore relationships with unresolved emotional attachment with others, or even parts of ourselves we find difficult to accept.
Solution Focused
Often brief interventions focused on finding a solution to an issue, exploring practical steps you can take to confronting a problem rather than exploring the emotional processing of an event.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness brings attention to the here and now, practicing tools and exercises to draw your attention to bodily sensations and the environment around you. Mindfulness is commonly used to bring attention away from moments of high anxiety and promotes self-awareness, becoming in touch with the link between your mind and body.
About Fern Haven.
Welcome, my name is Georgia, and I set up Fern Haven independently to offer mental health support to those facing challenging times.
Difficulty and challenges look different to each of us, but hardship cannot be ignored, what you feel matters. It can look like having no motivation to get up in the morning, anxiety, feeling more irritated, perhaps losing a loved one. There is a multitude of ways we can feel emotional struggle, and Fern Haven is a safe place to express them.
About me.
I’ve always been passionate about supporting others, in my personal life I was the friend who would lend a listening ear and to empathize when things felt hopeless. In my professional life I’ve had experience working with those who’s lives have been turned upside down due to sudden illness or a loss of family.
Providing a safe, comfortable space for someone to express themselves and forming a career in doing so has always been my goal.
Qualifications and experience.
I have a Bachelor’s Degree in Counselling and Therapeutic Practice, and am a registered member of the BACP, training to attain knowledge into theory and practice, gaining the skills to offer a safe and ethical practice.
I have experience working with MIND, a mental health charity nationwide, so have counselled people experiencing various difficulties, from anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, self-confidence issues, divorce, domestic abuse, family estrangement and more.
I also have part time experience with a domestic abuse charity and have received training in this area.