Counselling & Psychotherapy - Holistic Health Centre Woking 01483 724300

Raphael Lopez de Soto - Child, Adolescent & Family Psychotherapist
MA, Dip Couns, Dip SPlth

Raphael is a qualified child, adolescent and family psychotherapist currently working for a large children’s charity, Children’s Services and has an independent client base. He has gained extensive experience working within the NHS and managing a residential home for children with autistic spectrum disorders.

He has worked as a therapist within schools in the Surrey and Berkshire area for 3 years. Raphael has trained in Play therapy, Sand play therapy, utilising creative arts in therapy, and obtained an MA in child, adolescent and family psychotherapy. He is an associate lecturer in child psychotherapy.

Deborah Myhill - Counsellor & Psychotherapist
BACP Registered Practitioner
UKRC Reg. Ind. Counsellor

Therapy offers the opportunity, within a supportive relationship, to explore a difficulty or crisis, which may result in changes in the way you feel, think and behave. The aim is to increase self-awareness and help you discover your own answer. My practice is based on the belief that everyone has the capacity to develop their own potential and work towards living in a more satisfying and resourceful way.

Joan Bagnall – Counsellor/Psychotherapist
MBACP (Accred)
UKCP Registered Psychotherapist

All of us encounter challenges of a personal or emotional kind in our lives. Often these centre on relationships, but may also arise from physical illness, loss, work, sexuality, abuse and low self-esteem. Such problems often result in anxiety, depression or other mental health issues.

Joan has counseled people with these and similar problems for over twenty years, providing support in a confidential and non-judgemental relationship where feelings can be explored and opportunities identified. Her approach makes use of a range of theories and techniques selected according to individuals’ needs. Her style is non-directive, but aims to facilitate self-understanding as clients seek solutions to their problems and move on to more fulfilling lives.

Esté Grobler - Psychologist
HPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist
BPS Chartered Counselling Psychologist
BACP Member

Esté has been a counselling psychologist since 2001. She has an integrative approach which means she draws from various theories to find an approach and techniques that could be helpful to you at a specific time. She provides individual psychotherapy and couples counselling to adults; and play therapy to children.

Her initial training in counselling psychology included cognitive and behavioural therapies, such as CBT; psychoanalytic therapy; and humanistic therapies, such as person-centered therapy, Gestalt therapy, and Transactional Analysis (TA). Esté also has a masters degree in somatic psychology. This field of psychology focuses on the body as an integral part of the whole being that needs to be taken into account in the psychotherapeutic setting. Mindfulness is used to explore the breath, physical sensations and movement to illuminate the experiences of the body to the same extent as cognitive and emotional processes.

Jeanette is a qualified counsellor with 10 years experience. She began working as a therapist in a youth counselling service. Since then she has worked in an NHS community service for over 8 years, with clients who present with substance misuse problems and have often experienced a high level of abuse and trauma in their lives. She continues to work with this client group, providing one to one counselling and delivering group work programmes.

She has a particular interest in attachment and loss and working with sexual minority groups. She also works with relationship problems, low self esteem, self development, depression, anxiety and abuse.

Jeanette has previously taught an ‘Introduction to Counselling course’ and been a guest tutor on a diploma course. She is currently involved in teaching student counsellors who wish to volunteer in a drug and alcohol service.

'You cannot see yourself on your own’ and it is the working together as client and therapist that can enable change. As an integrative psychotherapist, I may employ psychodynamic, existential and sometimes person-centred approaches, tailoring the sessions for each individual client. However, strong evidence suggests the therapeutic relationship is the most important cog in the counselling wheel whatever the model. Each individual story is witnessed respectfully in a non-judgemental and empathetic context. Trust may be fostered; the client empowered to make their own choices, or to see alternative ways of understanding deep-rooted issues. The client needs to feel heard and offered a safe place where they can speak, in order to shift past patterns.

Christine is an experienced psychotherapist and counsellor who has specialised for many years in working with adolescents and young people as a school and college counsellor. She also has an interest in working with the elderly where she has set up counselling services locally. Currently, she practises at Holistic Health, alongside her practices in West Byfleet and Wimbledon; she also counsels at an affordable counselling agency and in a sixth form college. She is on an Advanced Practitioner programme in Psychotherapy & Counselling. She has specialised in working with issues of identity, self-harm, abuse and destructive patterns; integrating phototherapy which may access the client’s inner world more immediately than words.

Individual counselling and psychotherapy sessions of 50 minutes.
Fee: £45.00- £50.00 with concessions for students and senior citizens
Contact: wellscounselling@live.co.uk Tel: 01932 344826

José is a solution focused therapist and hypnotherapist who helps clients to work with a wide range of problems including stress, depression, lack of confidence, panic attacks, smoking cessation and weight issues – anything, in fact, which may be impeding their ability to perform well at work, sustain relationships or interact comfortably socially or emotionally. José always uses an individually tailored therapeutic approach for each client.

Trained originally in 1989 as a humanistic counsellor, José completed a Diploma in Hypnotherapy in 2001. She is an Accredited Member of the National Council for Hypnotherapy and receives regular supervision.

Sarie is a qualified therapist providing independent therapy and counselling for children. She has a MA in Child psychotherapy obtained at the Tavistok Institute and has completed diplomas and certificates in play therapy, counselling and social work. She has previously been employed by the N.S.P.C.C. and Children’s Services as a Senior Practitioner and therapist providing assessment and treatment for children, young people and their families. In addition she has worked in a psychiatric hospital and school for children with special needs. Sarie is a member of the British Association of Child Psychotherapists and of the Association of Play Therapists.

Maggie is a qualified counsellor who has experience in working with young people and adults. In her private practice Maggie works with clients aged 16 years and over and has experience in working with a wide range of issues. She can offer both day and evening appointments.

Maggie’s aim is to support clients through their presenting crisis and traumas. She draws upon the experiential elements which consider both past and present experiences of the individual. She supports clients through their process of self discovery and awareness and offers a place of safety where clients are enabled to make sense of their world.

Maggie offers an empathic understanding of clients needs and sustains a non-judgmental attitude giving clients the freedom to explore their innermost thoughts and feelings. Maggie believes we are all unique individual beings who should be treated as such and she values her work with each and every individual.