Sonshine Counselling

rose Counselling is widely recommended for a number of different conditions by doctors and health professionals. Unfortunately, your doctor's surgery may not be able to provide you with an appointment for some weeks.

Sonshine counselling can usually fit you in within days with a trained, accredited and experienced counsellor in the Chester area, at a time to suit you.

What sort of problems can I bring?

Anxiety
Depression
Mental Health Issues
Stress
Relationship
Crisis management
Mid-life crisis
Personality assessment
Bereavement
and most other life situations

Counselling is the exploration of personal difficulties in a private and confidential setting. Strict confidentiality means that the client can explore all aspects of their life in an open manner.

Counselling is invaluable in helping people of all types and ages to reflect on and discover what holds them back and what takes them towards new options in life. Difficulties can surprisingly often be turned into opportunities with the help of a skilled counsellor.

Approaches

An initial session will help to discover the problem and fit a therapeutic approach that will help - usually selected from:

Person Centred
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Transactional Analysis
Enneagram
Counselling with a Spiritual Dimension
Solution Focussed Therapy

Each session usually lasts about 50 minutes.

If necessary, you may be referred for more specialist help if you agree.

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Mike Wood

Mike has a wide experience of life that he brings to his counselling practice.
He trained as a teacher and qualified as a Youth Worker.
Mike and his wife Andrea were part of a team which set up the Snowdonia Christian Adventure Hostel in Rhyd-ddu, and they moved to Chester to be able to take children and young people there.
They joined Hoole Baptist Church where they have led a housegroup for over 30 years, and Mike was appointed an elder under Rev Russ Howell.

Mike became a headteacher for 18 years, then trained in Counselling and Psychotherapy, building on the educational psychology he had used in his Masters degree.
He worked for 5 years with Chester Aid to the Homeless, learning to relate to people with multiple problems.
Andrea & Mike are responsible for training and management of Child Protection at Hoole Baptist Church and the Hoole Lighthouse Centre.
Mike has worked in a General Practice Surgery and now counsels at Hoole Lighthouse Centre and Chester Retreat House.
He is supervised by the Chester Diocesan Counselling Service.
He is a member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists and the Association of Christian Counsellors.
He works to a set of professional ethical guidelines which may be inspected, and has a complaints procedure should that be necessary.

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What sort of problems can I bring?

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Mike Wood