About Me
Paul has a wealth of experience of psychological intervention having worked in various multi-disciplinary work settings including NHS IAPT services (Improving Access to Psychological Therapies). Alcohol and Drug misuse services, renowned private residential rehabs and prison. He has also had a successful private practice in Harley Street and in the Home Counties and now works from Guildford and Horsham.
His experience has covered various issues including but not exhaustive of anxiety, depression, stress, abuse, relationships, work, self-harm, alcohol and drug problems. Addiction, gambling, sex, eating disorders, porn and the internet.
Approach
Paul will use various contemporary research and evidence-based therapeutic models including CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), MET (Motivational Enhancement Therapy) and Humanistic Person Centred Therapy to help facilitate change and help people with various issues to live more balanced lives.
What I Offer
Paul Byford is a BACP accredited Counsellor/ Psychotherapist who draws on his experience and knowledge to provide therapy in a safe, supportive and confidential manner in Guildford at Brighter Spaces.Paul believes the therapeutic relationship between the counsellor and the client to be key, built on trust so that a shared open alliance can form.
Carl Rogers (Psychologist 1902-1987) was one of the Founders of the client centred approach which came away from the thinking that the Therapist was the expert.
“This process of the good life is not, I’m convinced a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more of one’s potentialities. It involves launching oneself fully into the stream of life” (Rogers 1961)
Mental health impacts one in four people in the Uk during the course of their lives and a therapeutic intervention can be very beneficial to those who suffer from:
Depression
Anxiety
Bereavement
PTSD
OCD
Alcohol and drug misuse
Addiction
Low self-esteem
Panic attacks/ phobias
Stress and health anxiety
Paul works with individuals and couples on either a short term or more open ended basis, with the aim of enabling clients to enhance their lives and to live it more fully.
Paul provides Counselling and Psychotherapy in Horsham and Guildford.
Reduced rates by Skype/ FaceTime or Phone Therapy.
Areas of specialisation
- Alcohol and drug addiction
- Behavioural addictions including gaming, gambling internet, porn/ sex
- Ocd
- Anxiety and Depression
Training & Qualifications
Qualifications
• BSc (Hons) Addiction Counselling awarded by the University of Bath
• BACP (accredited)
• FDAP member
• BABCP member
Certificates
• Co-dependency
• Complex needs
• Understanding and working with eating disorders
• Management of actual or potential aggression
• 12 Step
• Substance misuse and brief interventions
• SMART (Self-management and recovery training) facilitator
Rates
£80 per Therapeutic hour (50 mins)
£100 for couples