Holistic Jungian therapist specializing in trauma and relationships
Therapy is a proven way of helping us to face difficulties, manage emotional stresses and to recover from challenging experiences.
Skilled at enabling clients to feel safe, I am also highly effective at helping you to understand your emotions, manage relationships and stop unhelpful behaviours.
Whether it is short term therapy you require to help manage a one-off situation or longer-term input, leading to greater self-understanding, I can promise we will work together using ground-breaking therapy to meet your needs.
With separate qualifications enabling work with adults, adolescents, couples and clinical supervisees, I am also one of only a handful of UK Psychotherapists trained in AEDP, a trauma-informed integrative combination of neurobiology and traditional Psychotherapy. I am also trained in contemporary CBT and the use of creative interventions and hold enhanced DBS status for both children and vulnerable adults.
BACP Accredited status means I have successfully demonstrated a high level of proficiency as a Counsellor and Psychotherapist within the BACP ethical framework, assuring you of my competence whilst my Clinical Supervision Qualification demonstrates that you can trust my professionalism.
Here are some examples of things I can help you with…
Loss and change due to bereavement, work or family issues.
Behaving in ways you know are not helpful but can’t seem to stop?
Relationships : are you having problems with family, friends or people at work? Have people let you down in some way or broken your trust due to betrayals, cheating, or abusive behaviours towards you or loved ones? Maybe you feel lonely and want to know how to address this?
Addictions: Are family members or you abusing drugs, alcohol or in gambling debt?
Would you like to find out how to support others or how to help yourself with this and why it is that people get caught up in various addictive behaviours
Tragic events: anything from crime to suicide or mental breakdown, domestic abuse and sexual assaults, can take us by surprise, leaving us reeling from their impact. Nothing in life has prepared us for how to cope with this. How can we respond or even carry on with life?
I have had first hand experience of and training in several of the above including dealings with the criminal justice system. Hopefully I can help you navigate this uncharted territory and in the process come up with some answers.
Mental health : Have you or someone you know begun to self-harm or have abnormal eating patterns or compulsive behaviours or suffer from insomnia? Or maybe experience severe anxiety and/or panic attacks? Or behave in confusing or uncharacteristic ways and you wonder what if anything can be done about this?
If so rest assured that I can provide a safe environment in which to explore your concerns about yourself or others.
Things in your past? Maybe you simply want to say things in confidence which need to be heard by a non-judgemental listener.
Each person has a story to tell and yours will be heard both in safety and in the strictest confidence.
Maybe you just want answers to why something has happened – or keeps happening – to you or loved ones?
Whatever it is you want to bring, I am here to help adults, couples and teenagers overcome obstacles to happier lives and fulfilling relationships.
Other specialisms include my research into the mental health impact of Neurodivergence (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia) as part of my Counselling degree, ongoing study of PTSD and Complex Trauma plus an interest in the link between minority stress and diversity issues, particularly the impact of migration on second and third generations.
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Josephine Patten-Walsh is a United Kingdom-based counsellor and psychotherapist with 10 years of clinical experience supporting people through emotional stress, difficult life events and relationship challenges.
Skilled at creating a sense of safety, she helps clients explore and understand their feelings, improve how they relate to others and reduce patterns of behaviour that are not serving them well. She offers both short-term work to address specific situations and longer-term therapy to build greater self-understanding, and she commits to working collaboratively using ground-breaking therapeutic approaches to meet each person’s needs.
Her training enables her to work with adults, adolescents, couples and clinical supervisees. She is one of only a handful of UK psychotherapists trained in AEDP, a trauma-informed, integrative approach that combines neurobiology with traditional psychotherapy. She is also trained in contemporary CBT and the use of creative interventions, and she holds enhanced DBS status for working with children and vulnerable adults.
Josephine holds BACP Accredited status, which reflects demonstrated proficiency as a counsellor and psychotherapist within the BACP ethical framework, and she has a Clinical Supervision Qualification that speaks to her professional standards in supervising others.
She provides help with a wide range of concerns, including loss and change due to bereavement, work or family issues; repetitive unhelpful behaviours that a person finds difficult to stop; relationship problems with family, friends or colleagues, including issues arising from betrayal, cheating or abusive behaviour; loneliness and wanting to build connection; substance misuse, alcohol problems or gambling debt and how these affect family members; and responses to tragic events such as crime, suicide, mental breakdown, domestic abuse or sexual assault.
She has both training and first-hand experience in some of these areas, including dealings with the criminal justice system, and can support clients in navigating unfamiliar or overwhelming circumstances. Josephine also works with mental health presentations such as self-harm, disordered eating, compulsive behaviours, insomnia, severe anxiety or panic attacks, and other patterns of behaviour that feel confusing or uncharacteristic.
She offers a space to talk about things from the past and to be heard by a non-judgemental listener. Each person’s story is attended to with care and, where requested, in the strictest confidence.
Other areas of professional interest include research she completed into the mental health impact of neurodivergence (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia) as part of her counselling degree, ongoing study of PTSD and Complex Trauma, and an interest in the relationship between minority stress and diversity issues, particularly the effects of migration on second and third generations. Her specialisms also cover stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, coping with life changes, addictions, family and intimacy-related issues, sleeping problems, parenting, anger, self-esteem, bipolar presentations and compassion fatigue, and she works with clients from a range of backgrounds including Christian, non-religious, gay, older, conservative and liberal perspectives.
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