Jim Byrne Doctor of Counselling (candidate) For highly effective counselling, coaching and psychotherapy Ten years experience of helping people like you to think straighter, feel better, and behave more effectively in their lives generally: at home and at work "Solve your problems fast With Jim’s skilful help"

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If you are looking for help with counselling, coaching or psychotherapy services, then that is one of the services you will find here....

Jim Byrne, the creator of Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT), which is a derivative of pre-existing Rational and Cognitive therapies (REBT/CBT); combined with psychodynamic and narrative therapies. This is the leading edge of Integrative therapies, designed to be maximally helpful for you. CENT is not a "listening therapy". It is an active-directive form of philosophical coaching, designed to produce profound change for you, based on your agenda.

"People come and see me three or four times, and they go away with the solution to their problems. This normally happens much quicker than they expect. And they often write back to me to tell me how much they appreciate what they got from our work together".

CLARIFICATION OF WHAT IS ON OFFER HERE
Because there are several different forms of counselling, coaching and therapy, I want to clarify for you what I offer.

About a week ago a client came to me for his third session. (A session lasts about 45 minutes, and normally occurs once per week). Let us call this client ’Jack’, to protect his identity. (Confidentiality, or protection of the client’s identity, and keeping secret what they tell us, is a standard part of all systems of counselling).

Anyway, Jack was very happy. He’d driven from (a place which will remain nameless, but let’s assume it was in West Yorkshire somewhere). During that lengthy drive, he’d been thinking about what he’s got from his first two counselling sessions with me.

"My life is transformed", said Jack. "Not only have I got over my anxiety with people at work, who used to stress me out; but my wife is now relating to me differently - in response to the improved way I relate to her. And I have been offered several new contracts; and people tell me I look so much better than I did..."

Jack was delighted with the changes he was producing in his life, with my help. But what exactly did I do to help him; and what could I do to help you?

Well, basically, I teach people that their overly-upset emotions and unhelpful behaviours come from not thinking straight. So I teach people how to think straighter than they currently do, so that they can have less extreme emotions (like anger, anxiety, depression). Then, when they get their emotions within a reasonable range, they find they can behave more sensibly, and more self-helpingly, in all areas of their lives.

Of course, I do also teach them the kinds of behaviours that will tend to produce the best results in their relationships, and in their pursuit of their goals. For example, I commonly teach people to stop ’beating themselves up’ (verbally), or attacking those people in their lives on whom they depend.......