Cheryl McCabe

I have limited but flexible availability as also employed.

First session half price as it’s important to feel I am the right therapist for you. 

Welcome to Cheryl’s counselling service.

 I trained as a person-centred counsellor, and have over 30 years’ experience in supporting adults and young people with anxiety, anger, mood, trauma, bereavement, work issues, relationship's and experiences of physical, emotional and mental health.

 I am also compassionate and familiar with suicidal ideation, Schizophrenia, EUPD, addictions, identity and sexuality, anxiety and mood difficulties and people who have been detained under the mental health act.

 I am ‘parts’ and trauma aware and so, understand that our emotions and behaviours are complex and reactive to varying situations, events and people. 

I feel passionate about providing a therapeutic space where you can be heard and not judged for how you think, feel and cope.

Therapy may feel needed but impossible right now. You may feel overwhelmed, hopeless, helpless, angry, scared or confused and I understand that entering a therapeutic relationship with all these emotions is possibly the last thing you feel you can manage. However, when you are ready, I am here for you and welcome all these emotions as I too have had them. 

Life throws us challenges and curve balls that we don’t always want to deal with on our own, equally, you may have come to a point in your life where everything you have tried still hasn’t worked. This is mostly when people decide to try talking therapy, so if you’re reading this and feel it is the right time for you to enter therapy, I offer a first session for £25.00 because I know how important it is to feel it is the right investment for you. This session can be face to face, online or telephone and we will explore what you need and help us both feel if I am the right therapist for you :-)

Before our first session, I will have emailed or posted to you a ‘way of working contract’. This will ask you for some details about yourself and include how I work with safeguarding, data protection, confidentiality and payment details.

Sessions are between 50 minutes and 1 hour depending on location. This will be discussed from the outset.

At our first session, it is important that we discuss the contract and your expectations of therapy. I will also explain how I work and how I see us working together. The rest of the session is led by you to discuss what has brought you to therapy. 

Sometimes, people don’t know where to start, but be rest assured, this is natural, and we will begin with whatever is comfortable or known to you. There is never any pressure, you have total autonomy to only share what you want to share. It takes time to build a therapeutic relationship and a sense of safety and trust and I can never predict how therapy will work for you. However, I have seen the healing results and client’s changes due to the connection that therapy brings.