Welcome to www.individualpsychotherapy.co.uk

I practice one-to-one psychotherapy and counselling in Frome ( Somerset ) helping people address a wide variety of personal issues in a confidential environment. I provide supervision for Counsellors & Psychotherapists and Alternative Practitioners. I also offer a single session dream analysis service.

I have over 17 years experience in this work. My background includes trainings in Integrative-Psychosynthesis and Core-Process Psychotherapy. I have had over twelve years of experience of Jungian analysis and supervision, and have been active in the Clients Voice movement. I worked for seven years in the Art Therapy Department of a Psychiatric Hospital and have been supervisor to an Inner City Drugs project and the Dementia Care Trust counselling service. After an extended break, including a move from Bristol to Frome and becoming a father, I now combine this work with family life and the more practical work of renovating local buildings. I am listed on the Counselling Directory website http://www.counselling-directory.org.uk and therefore my qualification and insurance particulars have been independently checked and verified.

A cornerstone of my work is a respect for each person’s individual uniqueness. It is difficult to describe how our work will proceed because of your individual nature and the circumstances or problem that you bring. Generally we would meet for one hour, once a week to talk things through. Through this you will gain insight into the problem you are facing, enabling you to make more conscious choices in how you deal with it. Often however the issue that brings us into therapy is experienced as an impossible impasse or as a personal defeat (who would go to therapy otherwise?) but sometimes this can turn into a gift that opens us to a more soulful life. Psychotherapy means “to attend to soul”, and our problems can be our soul’s way of drawing our attention to a deeper and more meaningful life.

Particular areas of expertise include working with Mid-life crisis (or any other time crisis) along with loss of meaning or sense of purpose in life and depression. I have specific success working with early life trauma - emotional (e.g. adoption, parental bereavement) or physical (e.g. peri-natal trauma or early hospitalisation), not that these deep seated patterns and their affects are usually apparent at the outset of a course of counselling or psychotherapy.

Do you lack a sense of personal meaning in your life?
Are you held back by issues from your past?
Do the same old patterns recur in your relationships?
Want to live more in more harmony with your Soul's needs?

If these questions are relevant to you, then I may be able to help.

For more information follow this link

More About Psychotherapy and Gary Tomkins

or to arrange an initial free half hour meeting telephone

07812 544542 (Mob)

All sessions are held at

The House. 52A Catherine Street, Frome, Somerset. BA11 1DA.

www.individualpsychotherapy.co.uk

Gary - October 2011