I have been working as a private Counsellor and Psychotherapist in Highgate since 1995.
SERVICES
Welcome to Brian Hawxwell Counselling
Professional help with:- anxiety
- relationships - couple counselling
- low self-esteem
- depression
- panic attacks
- sexual orientation
- life crisis
- anger management
About Me
I trained for 7 years at `the Minster Centre` in West Hampstead. Which is an Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy Training - B.A.C.P. Accredited.
The course gave a thorough grounding in supervised clinical practice, with a strong emphasis on experiential work with reflective and critical input on a wide range of theoretical perpectives.
I chose to focus particularly on Existential, Person Centred and Humanistic (Abraham Maslow) models and my thesis was on `Issues around Death and Dying`.
Since that time I have studied a course in `Eastern Philosophy` for 4 years with a renowned teacher and use the part of that course called `training the mind` to enhance a `deep listening` and `non-judgemental`approach. Often known as mirroring.
More recently I studied with the school of `Insight and Intuition` at St.Matthias in Richmond, for 3 years.(a Ratified School) This is a course for refining the ability to read clients and in particular their `unconscious` comunication.
I find that clients respond well to the `emotionally corrective experience` propounded by Heinz Kohut.
which means that over a period of time the trust which was broken down by failures in early relationships, can be restored by sustained use of warmth and `positive regard`(Carl Rogers).
I also work with regular supervision from a BACP Accredited supervisor who is a trainer in Existential Psychotherapy, which keeps me sharp on theory and practice. Plus I am an affiliated member of the Association of Humanistic Psychology.
Most recently I have been endeavouring to study Cognitive Therapy and Advaita philosophy.
My specialty areas are; working with relationship issues and those who belong to minority groups.
Service Categories
Counselling, Psychotherapy
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