Michael Feldman Counselling

I attended the Metanoia Institute in Ealing, London and obtained a Diploma in Person Centred counselling. I have also obtained a Certificate in Couples Counselling and a Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at the Metanoia Institute. I trained as a bereavement counsellor with both Cruse Bereavement and the Jewish Bereavement Counselling Service. As part of my ongoing professional development I attend many courses and workshops.

I have been counselling since 1996 and since that time I have gained tremendous experience in the range of issues that I have encountered as well as counselling clients of varying ages from sixteen to ninety years old.

I have worked as a volunteer bereavement counsellor for approximately five years. In addition I was a volunteer counsellor for the mental health organisation MIND for nearly eight and a half years. The counselling undertaken for MIND was all short term work and thus I have accumulated a lot of experience in brief solution focused therapy.

I worked for 18 months at the York clinic in Guys Hospital which specialises in sexual and relationship problems. At the clinic I worked with clients experiencing sexual difficulties such as erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, loss of libido and relationship problems.

I have an interest in working with clients who have relationship difficulties be it stresses and tensions within a relationship or the ending of a relationship.

My approach to counselling is Humanistic and I use the Person Centred Approach as my theoretical base. My approach is also very much based on the therapeutic relationship as I believe that it is the quality of the relationship between the client and the counsellor that determines a positive outcome for the client.

A good relationship is built on trust, mutual respect, a good rapport and honesty and integrity and my goal is to bring all these qualities into my work with my clients.

My work with couples is based on an integrative approach and with both couples and individuals I use 'tools' from CBT where appropriate.

I aim to work with my clients towards a mutually defined goal where both the counsellor and the client are equal and active participants in the therapeutic relationship.