Maybe you've found this page because you're having problems with relationships either at work or at home, or bereavement or loss has touched your life, or maybe you are anxious to the point where you recognise you have OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) or an eating disorder. If this is the case then counselling and psychotherapy can be very helpful by giving you the opportunity to talk about and explore your conscious feelings in a safe, non-judgemental and confidential environment.

Please go to my main site (www.swindon-hypnotherapy.com) for more information about me and some of the conditions I can help with. I'm a qualified and insured Hypnotherapist, Psychotherapist and Counsellor, registered with the Hypnotherapy Society, General Hypnotherapy Register and Association for Professional Hypnosis & Psychotherapy, practising from Old Town in Swindon, close to the public car parks, offering Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling. I see clients from Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, from places as far as Wantage, Oxford, Tetbury, Chippenham, Witney, Marlborough, Faringdon, Highworth and Cirencester.

For more complex issues, I use a combination of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, NLP Gestalt Transactional Analysis and Hypnosis individually tailored to your requirements to help you recognise and change habitual patterns of thinking and behaviour for the better, improving your quality of life. Together we can unravel the issues and your conscious mind in tandem with your subconscious can then learn to respond in new and better ways.

Here is a little more explanation which may help you to decide whether counselling and psychotherapy may be of benefit to you with bereavement or relationships.

Bereavement:
 We all experience the loss of someone important in our lives at some time and it  triggers strong emotions that we aren’t always familiar with.
Everyone experiences  bereavement  differently and it can be further complicated by situations where we haven’t been able to say 'goodbye', or there may have been difficulties in the relationship prior to the person's death, or the death may have been  sudden or traumatic. Perhaps the person decided  to take their own life. All of these aspects can raise painful feelings and questions and create a need to go over things many times.
The Grieving Process can  take a long time, or even be delayed for many reasons. This could be years after the loss, but it commonly occurs from about two months afterwards.

When we're bereaved we experience lots of emotions which can include shock, disbelief, numbness, longing, idealisation, apathy, sadness, anger and depression before reaching a place where we can look forwardand accept our loss.
Grief can be an isolating and lonely experience and you may feel pressure to move on before you really feel ready, especially when others seem to be moving on. Grief is though, an essential process which helps us heal and enables us to learn how to cope with the future without the person we’ve lost.

Relationship Counselling (and how it could benefit your relationship)
When's the right time for counselling? Counsellors often hear : "We've tried everything - counselling is our last resort."
Far too many people leave counselling until it's too late. By the time of their first appointment, many years of bitterness and resentment have built up and the fear of being hurt or more alone often stops feelings of being able to change. If you're experiencing any of the following, now is the best time to consider counselling:

• When you talk to your partner, it feels as though you're hitting a brick wall.
• Your conversations just go round and round in circles.
• After you've talked, you feel no better, just more frustrated or confused.
• You can't talk for more than a few minutes without it turning into a shouting match.
• You're afraid that if you talk about cedrtain subjects, things will get even worse.
• You've said everything you can.

Counselling will help you to work through the following three steps:

1. Exploring your story - the type of problems and what impact they're having on you and your relationship. The history of how the problems arose and what changes you'd like to see.
2. Understanding your story - why you're struggling with these problems and the things that may be preventing you from overcoming them.
3. Rewriting your story - finding the strengths and resources to resolve your difficulties, or at least or come to terms with them.

Call me now for a free consultation on 01793 539991 or email me on alex@alexcoppock-bunce.com so we can discover your problems, get to know each other and see how best we can overcome them.