Raymond Corley

Monday: 09:00 - 18:00.

Tuesday: 09:00 - 18:00.

Saturday: 09:00 - 18:00.

Sunday: 09:00 - 18:00.

In 2021, I started out on the path to qualified counsellor status, attaining the Postgraduate Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling from Staffordshire University in September 2024. In the course of my training and student placement - during which I accumulated over 500 hours clinical practice - it was my privilege to counsel an extensive client base. By every metric - age, ethnicity, nationality, gender, neurodivergence, orientation, faith - the spectrum has been characterised by diversity. In addition, I can draw upon six decades of life experience and a facility for active listening in exercising an empathic appreciation of the challenges faced by people from multiple backgrounds.

You carry within you the means to answer every question you have about yourself. About your past and how your perceptions of it exert an enduring influence. About your present life, how your recollections of childhood and your adult choices have shaped it, and continue to shape it. About what fulfilment means for you, specifically, how you might attain it, achieve contentment, be at peace, in your world and with your world. All the answers are there. All you need do is find them.

I can help. I can help you form the questions you need to ask, interpret the answers you find, process the knowledge and insight they give you, help you get to know and accept the self – potentially, the many selves – who will be revealed to you. The journey may be difficult, uncomfortable, at times even painful, but I’ll be there, to guide, though not to lead, to support, though not to carry, and always with empathy and compassion, acceptance and respect. I can assist you in discovering the wellsprings of strength and wisdom that lie within you, and help you draw upon them to transform your life for the better.

I believe in the potential of counselling to address life's challenges. I am never shocked, though what I hear can be shocking. I never judge, though clients too often believe they deserve judgement. I never condemn, even when clients condemn themselves, convinced they are beyond help, beyond hope. They are not. No one is.

I don't have a formula; frankly, I don't want or need one. We'll have a conversation, the nature and theme of which will be driven by you. We'll get to know each other, see if we can establish a therapeutic connection - the single most important determinant in psychological and emotional healing  - and if you like what you hear, if by the end of the first session you feel the direction we're moving in is one that can take you to the root of your issue, and enable you to reach a solution, then we can book a second.