Psychotherapists
in South West England

Louise is a specialist in neurodiversity (or ‘specific learning difficulties’). She works with clients who have conditions such as dyslexia, dyspraxia (developmental coordination disorder), Asperger Syndrome and attention deficit disorder (ADHD). Louise has a particular interest in the ways in which these conditions affect people in education, training, and at work.

​I offer a safe, supportive and confidential space to work with all kinds of areas of life including: anxiety, depression, relationship, intimacy & sexual issues problems, trauma, life-changes, sexual-abuse and spiritual emergency.

I am a UKCP Registered Integrative Psychotherapist working mainly in Stroud, Gloucestershire, with over 30 years experience in private practice and health & social care settings. My approach is informed by humanistic, psychoanalytic, and existential theory and practice, and I work from the basis that most personal difficulties arise in the context of relationships, both past and present, and that it is by exploring these difficulties through the medium of the relationship with the therapist that resolution, healing and growth may occur.

Feeling anxious, depressed or just plain unhappy about life and wonder what it’s all about? Maybe curious about life and why you seem to get the same old patterns recurring over and over?

Hello, my name is Francine Brett and ‘Into Minds’ is my private therapy practice offering confidential sessions to individuals and couples. I studied with the Open University between 1995 and 2001 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree(Honours) in Psychology and Applied Social Sciences and a Diploma in Applied Social Sciences.I also hold a Post Graduate Advanced Diploma in Developmental Psychology from the Open University.

As humans we tend to 'project' our problems, likes, dislikes, emotions, onto others,often making 'them' responsible for our feelings. Processing the emotional content of one's issues leads to a release of the negative impact on the individual resulting in a more positive approach to life.

I practice individual (one-to-one) psychotherapy and counselling in Frome, Somerset (south of Bath 29mins, and Bristol 55mins) helping people address a wide variety of personal issues in a confidential environment. I provide supervision for Counsellors and Psychotherapists.

I have 25 years of experience in helping people to create their lives the way they want it, in a realistic, manageable and long term way. As a qualified Art Psychotherapist I use creative materials regularly in my eclectic and psychodynamic approach.

Having worked in the field of Psychology since 2003, and more recently having qualified as an NLP master practioner and Hypnotherapist, I have worked with a vast array of different population and patient groups including children with behavioural and physical disabilities, young carers, oncology patients, chronic illness patients, mental health patients, parents and adult carers.

There are many reasons why life can feel difficult or even impossible — things that have happened to you in the past may still be affecting you, or perhaps you are going through something right now that is changing the way you see life; perhaps you just feel you aren’t getting any pleasure out of anything anymore.