Courtyard Therapeutic Services
                    

Contact Della:
Mobile 07736160221
Email: dellacain@hotmail.co.uk

Accredited Voluntary Register
 Della Cain (MNCPS Accred)

Counselling helps clients to reconnect with their authentic self and deal with everyday life. All trained counsellors will be able to help you with immediate emotional problems and situations. 

Psychotherapy helps clients to reconnect to their past, enabling them to rebalance their thoughts and feelings, enabling them to move forward in life. 

I am a trained integrative counsellor/psychotherapist and therapeutic foster carer. I have many years experience helping adults and children, with all sorts of trauma, such as bereavement, anxiety, sexual, physical and emotional abuse. 

I am also a supervisor to many other counsellors. I specialise in trauma and childhood development. I continually develop my own understanding of psychology to help others. 
  
Please call if you are nervous or unsure about counselling, most people feel unsure when making these sorts of decisions especially when it involves ourselves. 

Monday - Wednesday      9:00 - 7:00pm         £60 per 50 minute session Individual Clients
                                                                        £75 per 90 minute session for Supervision
                                                                 I offer both Face to Face and on-line Zoom sessions. 
             
Best wishes 
Helpful Tip

You cannot be anxious  and calm at the same time. This breathing technique will help to reduce stress and anxiety. 
1. Take a slow breath in through your nose, counting to six, (remember to breathe into your stomach. If you are struggling to do this, hold your hand on your tummy, as you gently breath in your hand should rise. If your chest is rising you are doing it wrong, focus on your tummy and after a while you will feel the breath lifting your hand ) Remember, breath gently.

2. Hold the in breath for 4 counts, then gently breath out through your mouth to a count of six, your tummy should relax and go down. Do this six times.

3. Then close your eyes, return your breath to a normal gentle breath, in through your nose and out through your mouth, on your out breath say in your head 'relax', keep doing this until you feel really calm. 
(remember to breath into your stomach).

                                                                                           Heart Vs Mind

 

 

                                   The rhythm of life started with a small beat. It grew to a symphony, a magical feat.


                                    It sang and it danced with joy in its heart. Nothing could spoil this magnificent start. 


                                             The mind of life began to stir. It woke with a start and a terrible blur. 


                                     Fear and anxiety lay all around, mind stopped the heartbeat from beating its sound. 


                                             Mind took command to lead the way. Heart stopped feeling and shied away.


                                                      For years mind searched high and low, too afraid of letting go. 


                                      Confused and exhausted mind felt alone, I have no feelings, I am dead like a stone. 


                                            Heart felt a stir, a small rhythm of light, it started to beat to help start the fight.


                                          It said to the mind ‘don’t worry’, ‘I’m here’. Together, we can stop shedding a tear. 


                              They plotted and planned and worked out a way. Neither mind nor heart led the light of the day. 


                                    Mind could now feel, and the heart could now see, that together, its them and not only me. 


About Me

Deciding to see a counsellor for whatever reason, is always a difficult first step. My first experience of seeing a counsellor began when I was being bullied at work. I was asked by my company to see a counsellor as I was not coping. The thought terrified me, I felt I had failed or I was not good enough and people would think I was weak. How wrong could I have been, the experience changed my life. My counsellor was very positive, non-judgmental, and empathetic, she was able to help me regulate myself enabling me to make choices that were best for me.

A good counsellor will not judge; they will accept you unconditionally. They will not give you advice, instead they will actively listen and help guide you through the process of helping you to make your own choices and decisions. 

Someone once said to me they are too intelligent to see a counsellor. I can assure you it has nothing to do with intelligence. We are trained in a specific process to help a client gain the best outcome for themselves. Some of the most brilliant minds on the planet need help in understanding how they think and feel. Think of it as learning to fly a plane or riding a bike, we all need help in understanding the process, once we have learnt it we can then carry-on solo.  

Best Wishes

Qualifications

  • Listening Skills - Open University
  • Counselling Skills Level 2 - AQA - VCTS
  • Foundation Certificate in Counselling Children & Younger People - VCTS
  • Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, Unit 1, 75 Hours, Therapeutic Perspectives – VCTS
  • Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, Unit 2, 100 Hours, Cognitive Behaviour Theory - VCTS
  • Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, 250 Hours, Higher Training and 100 hours supervised counselling placement - VCTS  
  • Practitioner Diploma in CBT - VCTS
  • Certificate in Counselling Supervision - VCTS                                                                                                     


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