WELCOME TO EAST KENT THERAPY
This online counselling and psychotherapy service offers you a modern trauma-focused approach to help you achieve what you want in your life.
In a compassionate way, we can work together to promote and restore your health and well-being. I use a combination of modern trauma-informed therapies called EMDR (eye-movement desensitisation and reprocessing) and IFS (Internal Family Systems' therapy).
This integration is very effective and focused for ‘emotional trauma’ and any mental or health conditions. I am accredited with EMDR Europe and the EMDR Association and with the IFS Institute (level 1 & 2 trained). I have NHS registration & Enhanced DBS clearance.
I integrate IFS with trauma therapy (EMDR) using tapping, meditation and visualisation. This is a trauma focused EMDR integrated with IFS to produce the best results for your mental and physical well-being.
This includes resolving traumatic memories, rescuing your inner child; and helping you unburden from ancestral legacies. Emdr helps you process adverse experiences while IFS restores you to your authentic self by inviting compassionate relating to all parts of yourself.
If you have suffered from abuse, bullying, neglect and perhaps abandonment, IFS and EMDR really helps resolve past trauma. I have a specialism in working with codependency (where you may abandon yourself to please others) and treating the impact of narcissistic abuse and abusive relationships.
I'm a former journalist and i’m a judge for the Orwell Prize. If you are interested in plant medicine, I’ve recently been on extensive training in Brazil and can help integrate these experiences.
EMDR Therapy Sessions
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing. It is a unique 'trauma' therapy that helps people recover from emotional problems triggered by traumatic events, such as abuse, neglect and damaging relationships.
Nowadays 'trauma' techniques have grown to enable working with attachment issues and emotional problems, including OCD, flashbacks, negative thoughts, shame, chronic pain and fatigue, hypervigilance and feeling overwhelmed.
I'm an EMDR Europe Accredited Practitioner and IFS Institute trained practitioner (levels' 1 & 2).
Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a gentle, loving, compassionate 'trauma' focused therapy. It is very popular and instantly helpful as a way to help you connect with your 'parts' or feelings you may have.
For example, you may notice a part of you that takes over and makes you socially anxious, or a part of your nervous system that prevents you going out confidently. IFS is amazingly effective in helping you communicate with your feelings and your body and letting your parts know you better.
Emotional Trauma-focused counselling
Sometimes you may want a safe space to talk confidentially about your problems. You may want advice and help about dealing with a current issue or crisis. You want to talk through something or make some plans going forward.
Often this is a value resource, somewhere to stabilise your life and get some mental health information and locate a structure and plan for yourself and perhaps your family. Perhaps you are in an abusive situation and you want help making a strategy to regain control of your life.
Testimonials
Get in touch
Please send a message and I will get back to you. Or please text or phone, in confidence, on 44 07525 456544. Thank you
Testimonials
For a person like me who has never experienced a true bond of belonging or a sense of stability in my life, this a big step and a kind of deep emotional work. But somehow you managed to enter into this world of mine in a harmonious way that is relational, respectful, stable but not rigid. So thank you for that and all the work you do with me, I am grateful.
AM
Thank you for your understanding, acceptance, kindness and help. That you have given me this has meant that i have been able to explore my life honestly with you. There has been laughter and challenge, thank you for everything. I will miss you and wish you every happiness. Warm wishes.
Phil, NHS surgeon seen at GP Surgery
Johnnie’s calm, compassionate energy, and respectful approach create a safe environment for me. His gentle method allowed me to feel less worried and more self-aware and self-compassionate, after a few sessions. He holds a rare combination of a deep knowledge in both IFS and EMDR. I wholeheartedly recommend Johnnie to anyone seeking a professional and dedicated therapist.
Daria, IFS specialist