Robert Hill

I am a fully qualified and accredited counsellor, psychotherapist and supervisor with almost two decades of experience working with clients from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds.

I work primarily with individuals but also offer relationship counselling (mainly with couples but also sometimes with siblings and with parents and children).

When clients come to see me they have often been wrestling with something in their mind for years, sometimes many years. They have wrestled with it as best they can, based on their understanding of themselves and the issues that they face. And yet they are still wrestling. And now they are coming to someone new, who is not directly part of their life, for a fresh perspective – a ‘second look’ at what is going on. My job is to listen carefully to what they say and also to ask useful questions so that we can, together, take that second look.

For the first 15 year of my career, I worked with a very wide range of issues that clients were bringing to me. Since then, I have focussed increasingly on the following areas:

• Guilt and shame (which are often part of chronic depression)
  
• Clients who experience a lot of harsh self-criticism and self-punishment
  
• Clients who struggle to love and make room for others in their world
  
• Existential issues such as loneliness, aging and death
  
• Clients who struggle with separation and independence.
  

I also have a lot of experience in working with clients who have a history of suicidal thoughts and feelings and with clients who have been affected by the suicide of friends or family members.