Counselling and stress management in Southampton
Creative CPD for therapists
Welcome
Hello and welcome
If you're exploring counselling or other types of wellbeing support, this page is for you. If you're a therapist, you may wish to check out my creative CPD offer.
Whatever's brought you here, I wish you well in finding what you're looking for.
David Whistance
Accredited Counsellor
Healing possibilities
I aim to offer a calm and creative space where we can meet and gently untangle whatever thoughts and feelings you're struggling with to support positive change in your life and relationships. Whether you're feeling stressed, anxious, depressed or just feel stuck or lost at some level, hopefully we can do some good work to build up your wellbeing resources and support valuable moments of psychological healing.
Let's see if we can work together to create some positive change through:
Talk and creative therapy: To gradually build awareness, understanding and inner balance when facing difficult issues.
Gestalt Acu-balancing and/or Autogenic Therapy: Self-help practices to help soothe and release stress, anxiety and more.
Strengths and/or career coaching: For helping you to find more direction and fulfilment.
‘The sense of lonely struggle
and imminent failure is replaced
with an experience of life as a
supported journey to mastery.’
Steve Biddulph
Based in a quiet location in Bitterne SO19, I see people from Southampton, Hampshire and other parts of the UK. There’s free parking near, and good train and bus services to, my practice. I also offer video and phone appointments, which provides flexibility if you're local and overcomes travel issues if you live further afield.
If you'd like a free, no obligation 20 minute conversation to find out more, I'm just a phone call or message away.
Finding a better way
My experiences over the years have taught me that we can all get caught in challenging currents of the mind from time to time. When this happens, I've seen how we can also learn how to ride turbulent waves of judgemental thinking and painful emotions more skilfully.
If you persevere with supportive self-help practices and use therapy to work through what's causing these difficult conditions, I believe that over time you too can get better at managing distress and finding your way to sparkling streams and calmer waters.
Feedback examples
'You were flexible, understanding and patient.'
‘Really valued being able to explore and understand things more.’
‘The intensity of anger I was feeling has lessened significantly.’
'I can cope better even though life is still very stressful.'
'A valuable experience which was a great help to me.'