Bill Baker Counselling and Consultancy

Time and Space for you...

You are thinking of seeing a counsellor - not an easy decision. Each of us has times when what life throws at us seems too much. We crave space to think things through.

Sometimes it is those existential questions: “Why don’t I feel right?” “Why am I not where I ‘ought’ to be?” Often it is a relationship, a marriage, a partnership. Sometimes it is an event - a bereavement, a loss, a trauma.

I can help. I am experienced, deeply empathic and non-judgemental - respecting you and your values. As your counsellor we work together, through counselling, to open the door to new beginnings.

Bill Baker MA B.Sc MBACP

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For an initial appointment please call. It could not be easier. See 'Three Steps to Help'

HARLEY ST: 0844 248 4731

DORKING: 01306 501207

Or Email

No big deal. But maybe a big difference for you..

LONDON

Harley Street: My London practice is at 30 Weymouth Street W1G 7BS in central London just off Harley Street and Portland Place and just a short walk from Oxford Street or Regent's Park. It is easily accessible from anywhere in Central London.
The nearest underground station is Oxford Circus. There is an NCP Car Park in Weymouth Mews almost opposite. My rooms are on the first floor. If this could be a problem, please call to discuss.
For a map just CLICK HERE

SURREY

DORKING: My Surrey practice is in central Dorking, near Dorking Hospital, easily accessible from Dorking Area and 10 minutes from Dorking Town Centre and a 20 minute walk from Dorking Rail Stations.
Dorking is off the M25 J10 and through Leatherhead and Mickleham. Other places served include Mole Valley including Bookham, Fetcham, Ashtead and Epsom and Reigate, Betchworth, Brockham, and surrounding villages andGuildford and Horsham.. There is client parking and level access.
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I COUNSEL THESE AREAS:

As a counsellor and psychotherapist I practice:

Relationship Counselling,
Couple Counselling,
Divorce Counselling,
Counselling for Stress, Panic, Depression and Anxiety,
Anger Management counselling,
Addictions counselling,
Bereavement Counselling,
Trauma Counselling and Counselling for PTSD ,
Counselling for Mid-Life Crisis,
Family Counselling,
Counselling for Young People, Schools and Adolescents,
Counselling for Self-Esteem,
Career & Workplace Counselling including Bullying,
Counselling for Loss,
Counselling for Identity Issues,
Counselling for Creativity,
Counselling for Psycho-Sexual Issues,
Counselling of Adoption issues in Adopted Adults.

Note: the terms 'Counsellor' often mis-spelt as Counselor, Councilor, Counseller and 'Counselling', are used more often than 'Psychotherapist' and 'Psychotherapy'. In many instances the designation is interchangeable or a matter of preference but in some contexts 'psychotherapy' denotes a strictly psychoanalytic approach.

LATEST NEWS

DATELINE: May 2008

Initial counselling appointments for individuals and couples now available Friday pm in Weymouth Street.

Business Services - Business Consultancy, Executive Mentoring, Executive Counselling, Business Coaching

New counselling/developmental counselling/coaching opportunities in the City (near Liverpool Street).Please make clear when you enquire that you would like to meet in EC1. See 'Business and Executive 'for more details.

...Availability
Please telephone for availability in London W1, London City or Dorking.

Considering counselling or coaching either for yourself, your company or clients?

If you would like to discuss coaching/developmental counselling further, please email or telephone to set up an initial meeting.

Emotions and Feelings in Psychotherapy

Much emphasis today is on how clever, intelligent and knowing we are. Psychotherapy focuses on what we feel.

How we live our lives is as much, or arguably more, about our emotional and feeling state than about our intelligence and what we have, or have not, learnt. Emotional intelligence EQ is as important as IQ.

Psychotherapy as I practice it, is not about assessing EQs or IQs or any other pseudo-scientific measuring.

Psychotherapy and/or counselling with me is about striving to understand ourselves. We are all human beings, individuals in relationship with others, experiencing living in this time, this society and this place; and as human beings, subject to the existential mysteries of life and death.

If that sounds a bit grand,psychotherapy with me, is gently posing questions, with me as the catalyst in empathic relationship with you. The result, over time, is clarification, understandings and new thoughts leading to answers, shifts and changes...

Wow! See a counsellor - big decision

Wow! Going to see a counsellor/psychotherapist, is a big decision for most people

In the movies Woody Allen type characters are always seeing their 'analyst'. But in the UK there is often still the feeling that it’s a big deal, a bit shameful, an admission of failure. For the older generations the stiff upper lip is a living memory.

Even the UK government now recognises that in the 21st century Britain needs counselling and is piloting local NHS counselling. But, with an estimated 10,000 trained counsellors needed, it may be sometime before this initiative comes to a centre near you....