Working in partnership with you to improve the psychological health
and well-being of the community and society of which we are a part.
SERVICES
Welcome to Dr. Roger Waldram's Psychotherapy and Counselling services
Brief Counselling
You may find it helpful to use the personal 'stock-take' of the Motivational Assessment to work out what is OK about your life and what could be very much better. This will help to work out your therapeutic goal for our work. This can be found using the Self Help link on the Vine Partnership Psychotherapy site.
Or just ring 01778 348448 for an informal discussion.
Our approach to brief therapy is broadly cognitive-behavioural and solution-focused. In plain English, beginning with the A, B, C's , our personality includes Affect, Behaviour and Cognition - what we feel, what we do and what we think.
If we feel sad, we can use our ability to think and work out why and then do something different. After we have done something to change the situation we feel better. Therapy may include skills for life such as Assertiveness, Relaxation and Breathing Techniques, Exercise, Anger Management and challenging negative thoughts . Some of these skills are available under Self Help, many more as handouts for face-to-face work. The key benefit of face to face psychotherapy is the therapeutic relationship, which enables us and facilitates the process of change. The cost is £40 per hour for personal psychotherapy. Brief psychotherapy is suitable for life crisis such as relationship break-up, job loss, work-related or other stress. We do not offer brief psychotherapy to those who are feeling suicidal (contact Samaritans 0845 790 9090) or have a history of psychiatric illness or anti-social behaviour (contact your doctor for referral).
Psychotherapy
The longer term psychotherapy offered is integrative psychotherapy. There are two aspects to the integration. The first is the integration of affect, cognition, behaviour, body and spirit. In English, the holistic inclusion of how we feel, what we think, what we do, spiritual aspects our being and the impact of our way of being on our body. For example, we may be more at home with logical thinking and problem-solving and be thrown by, and feel overwhelmed with sadness following bereavement. On the other hand, we may be fully aware of our feelings, but nonplussed by the need to get ourselves organised with a promotion, or the arrival of a baby. These examples are really stereotypes, although many of us have adapted creatively in these ways in order to get through our childhood. We may have been told "Big boys don't cry-don't be such a baby!", and learnt that it was wiser then to think rather than feel. We may have been told "Don't be such a smart-Alec!" or "What a geek!", and decided that it would be better not to succeed, or to study, or to exceed parental expectations. Other 'messages' may lead to our working too hard, having little confidence or always putting others first, with the consequence that these 'out of awareness' choices may be proving unhealthy and life-sapping for us as adults.
The second aspect of integration concerns the psychotherapy itself. The history of psychotherapy, from the split that occurred between Freud and Jung onwards, has many examples of dialogue ceasing between the innovators of new approaches to psychotherapy and thus perhaps the potential for new knowledge and understanding ceasing. We as human being are like a multi-faceted diamond. Some approaches focus on only one or two aspects of that diamond, sometimes to good effect, but not finding perhaps more of the precious, beautiful jewel that is within our potential. Integrative psychotherapy holds the potential for including any aspect of other psychotherapy modalities that serve to enhance the therapeutic relationship, which is where healing occurs. Longer term psychotherapy is appropriate for serious or recurrent problems such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety and depression. It is also useful for personal development and personal growth, for those who have to have personal therapy as part of their training as counselors and therapists and those who wish to gain or regain their sense of being fully alive, and perhaps their zest for life. The cost is £40 per hour for longer-term psychotherapy. Please use the contact link to arrange by telephone or e-mail for a free, informal telephone discussion.
Supervision
We offer supervision for counselors and psychotherapists, which may be individual or within a group. The supervision offered takes account of the developmental stage and learning style of the supervisee. Supervisees are encouraged to clearly focus on one or more of the following aspects of supervision: ethical issues, their personal issues in the therapeutic relationship, the client's issues, transference counter transference or parallel process, the theory, and finally intervention techniques. Supervision is regarded as a skill in its own right and from the overview given may be seen to be appropriate for a variety of counseling or psychotherapy approaches. Fees are £40 per hour. Please use the Contact page to make arrangements by telephone or e-mail for an informal telephone discussion.
What is Counselling and Psychotherapy?
According to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) 'it has not been possible to find any statement or criteria that draw a clear evidence-based difference between counselling and psychotherapy' (see 'Therapy' February 2007 p.47 for more details). However, it may be useful to think of psychotherapy as longer-term and arguably at a deeper level.
In life-crisis of recent origin brief counselling may be appropriate. With recurrent patterns which have been happening for some years it may well be that longer-term psychotherapy wiil be of lasting benefit.
How Can Therapy Help?
Often in our daily life both at work and home we need to 'put on a brave face', and cannot be open about our thoughts and feelings. Often people say 'I bottle up my feelings then somebody shakes the bottle, and then there's trouble!'
The counselling and psychotherapy environment is a safe, confidential place where you are welcomed, accepted and able to 'unburden' and speak of whatever troubles you. At our first meeting you may wish to consider how you would like your situation to be different. This 'difference' is our therapeutic goal and having a positive 'vision' for the future can certainly raise one's spirits.
Alternatively, it can be very helpful to learn how to change our anxiety or other feelings which may interfere with our ability to live well.
What Benefits can be Expected?
Benefits may include feeling better and being able to make the healthy changes of your choice.
When suffering bereavement or life-crisis 'accompaniment', in the sense of having a companion through a terrible time can be very helpful.
Fees.
£40 per 1 hour session for individuals.
£40 for supervisees
£45 for couples
£50 for organisational referrals
Brief Biography
I am a professionally qualified psychotherapist, registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, and have a research-based Masters Degree in Integrative Psychotherapy.- I have now completed my Doctor of Practice in Humanistic Psychotherapy. My research concerned how 'strange experience' can be seen as 'sick' or a 'spiritual emergency', where we need to make some major changes in our life.
- I have a special interest in providing psychotherapy for mental illness that I will be very happy to discuss with you on the 'phone or on my Blog on Vine Partnership.
- I offer a free telephone consultation without any obligation, which is useful for you to decide whether counselling or psychotherapy might be helpful for you at this time.
My practice is located in Market Deeping within easy reach of Peterborough, Stamford, Bourne, Spalding, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.
Depression, anxiety, work-related and other forms of stress often resulting from life crises such as relationship-breakdown, bereavement or job-loss may often be quickly resolved through the informed psychotherapy offered.
Solution-focussed brief therapy is effective through focus on a positive result, just as athletes or sportsmen always focus on winning.
Critical incident de-briefing for trauma such as car-crash, physical attack or other traumatic loss which may happen in cases of theft or abuse can have surprisingly positive effective results after 3 sessions.
I also offer brief couples work for relationship problems.
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) Registered Integrative Psychotherapist.
MA Integrative Psychotherapy.
Diploma in Supervision.
Doctor of Psychotherapy Practice.
Areas of Specialism
My doctoral research dissertation question was 'What are the similarities and differences in the phenomenoloy of 'madness' and 'spiritual experiences'? Phenomenology is the totality of one's experience. My question concerned the ways in which our strange experiences can be given a diagnosis, or alternatively be seen as a spiritual emergency with the opportunity for a healthy change. In other words there can be 'break-down' or 'break-through'.
The 'planks' of the 'bridge' to strange experience (sometimes diagnosed as depression, anxiety or mental illness) include stress-overload, loss of relationships, drugs or life crisis.
This strange experience often includes inability to concentrate, difficulty sleeping, making mistakes, feeling 'flat', sometimes our thinking becomes 'skewed' and we may see or hear things that no-one else does. This can be extremely frightening to put it mildly.
The planks of the recovery bridge include good relationship with a therapist and others, sanctuary in the form of a safe place to talk, using 'tools' to change how we feel, normalisation of the experience and understanding of the process. This hopefully leaves us much more resilient and able to create and enjoy a better life in future. Thus there is the possibility of positive transformation for ourselves and others.
The evidence that mental illness is due to a chemical imbalance, and requires treatment by CBT or medication is flawed.
Personal Approach
I endeavour to enquire, accept, validate, and encourage those who come to see me.
Now 65 I have considerable life experience including, some years ago, serious 'mental illness' which required hospital admission. This gives me considerable insight.
What I know from both experience and research is that the therapeutic relationship is fundamental to the process of healthy change. I will do my best to facilitate this from first telephone or email contact, from our first session through to the successful conclusion of our work together.
Service Categories
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Counselling, Psychotherapy
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