Psychotherapy and counselling are processes focused on helping you work through difficulties or issues in your life learn new, constructive ways to deal with them. It can also be a supportive process when going through a difficult period or under increased stress. Paula Partington is a trained and experienced psychotherapist and counsellor who has the knowledge, and empathy to assist you through a difficult or stressful time in your life. Paula has extensive experience working in psychotherapy and counselling.
Counselling
Working closely with clients, counselling enables people to work through here and now difficulties, to resolve them and make the changes they want. Counselling can focus on responses to trauma, grief, stress, anger, life decisions or difficulties with confidence and assertion.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is a process focused on helping you heal and learn more constructive ways to deal with the problems or issues within your life. Addressing longer term difficulties, often stemming from childhood, it addresses recurring difficulties and conflicts which impact on our ability to live life in an enjoyable and satisfying way.
Discrete & Professional
Paula provides a safe, non-judgmental, and supportive environment for clients to work through the difficulties they are facing. Her approach is to enable clients to build on their existing strengths and resources to solve their problems and meet their goals.
Training & Courses
Equilibrium Psychotherapy offers a range of courses, from multi-day short courses to longer term psychotherapy training in Transactional Analysis.
Individuals, Couples & Families Counselling
Paula has experience of working with individuals, children and families in private practice, schools, and the health and social services systems in both the UK and New Zealand.
Supervision Services
Supervision focuses on practitioners ongoing development with the focus on the well being of the client the person works with. I offer supervision to trainees, counsellor, psychotherapists and those in allied professions, as well as education sector professionals, team leaders and managers in organisations.