
Peter Britton
Registered Member MÂ鶹Դ´ (Accredited)
Contact information
- Phone number
- 07947 114527
Therapist - Maidstone
Features
- Wheelchair accessible office
Availability
Appointments on Wednesdays and Thursdays with current availability. Face to face, on-line or telephone sessions.
About me and my therapy practice
Registered and Accredited since 2005. A wide range of experience including school counselling, NHS primary care, working with the homeless and private practice. However, therapy is not just about qualifications and experience but more importantly about what occurs as a result of being heard, not judged and treated with empathy and compassion. Also, we can become our own worst enemies by failing to apply these qualities to ourselves. Developing self-compassion is a key element.
We start by deciding how we will work together as a team to achieve positive change. Making sure what you want matches what I can provide is essential to avoid misunderstandings. I prefer to identify specific goals but when this is not possible we can work in a different way. My main theoretical approach is Transactional Analysis but I draw from a number of others. I work openly and am always willing to discuss how I feel the work is progressing. There are no hidden agendas and any theory used avoids jargon or medical terminology.
Short-Term Therapy
Short term-work is mostly solution-focussed and often connected to dealing with an acute crisis such as a loss or emotional breakdown. Length of therapy usually ranges from 4-12 sessions .
Long-Term Therapy
This is more in depth and involves the following stages:
Establishing a good working alliance
Looking at what is not working in your life and deciding on how you would like to change this
Gently exploring the inner thoughts and feelings involved in what is not working
Identifying and dealing with self criticism
Talking about experiences from childhood to see if we can identify the origins of negative patterns and unhelpful beliefs
Developing self-awareness to provide more choice in avoiding repetition of errors
Strengthening self-care and support from others. Establishing effective personal boundaries
Measuring positive change and acknowledging success!
Larger goals are self discovery, finding meaning and purpose in life and becoming authentic and autonomous.
Practice description
My private practice for face to face work is located about a mile outside the centre of Maidstone in a newly built Community Centre. The therapy room is modern, comfortable and quiet and there is a convenient waiting area. Parking and disabled access are available and it is on a local bus route.
I see clients for both both short and long term work and offer general counselling with specialities of anger management, working with adolescents and short-term solution-focussed therapy.
My first session
The first session involves practical issues of how we will work together, information gathering and defining what issues are to be dealt with. I prefer to work with specific goals for but when these are difficult to define, just being listened to with empathy, compassion and without judgement can be therapeutic in itself.
What I can help with
Anger management, Anxiety, Bereavement, Child related issues, Cultural issues, Depression, Health related issues, Loss, Men's issues, Mood disorder, Redundancy, Relationships, Self esteem, Spirituality, Stress, Work related issues
Types of therapy
Brief therapy, Humanistic, Integrative, Solution focused brief therapy, Transactional analysis
Clients I work with
Adults, EAP, Older adults, Young people
How I deliver therapy
Long term sessions, Long-term face-to-face work, Online therapy, Short term sessions, Short-term face-to-face work, Telephone therapy, Time-limited