UK Therapy Guild Counselling Service

19/10/2026

Supporting the people who support our children 🧡

Some relationships are about more than delivering a service. They’re about shared values, trust and a genuine commitment to the wellbeing of a school community.

We’re incredibly proud of our relationship with Our Lady & St. Swithin’s Primary School and its wonderful headteacher, Emma Hartley.

Through UK Therapy Guild Counselling Services, we’re developing our work with the school to include supervision for senior leaders.

School leadership brings enormous responsibility. Safeguarding concerns, complex decisions and the emotional demands of supporting children, families and staff can be challenging to carry.

Supervision provides a confidential, reflective space for leaders to explore the challenges of their roles, process the emotional impact of difficult situations and consider how they can continue supporting their school community while looking after their own wellbeing.

We believe that supporting a school means recognising the needs of the people who lead it, as well as the wider community they serve.

Our connection with the school extends beyond Counselling Services. We’re also incredibly proud to call Our Lady & St. Swithin’s the home of UK Therapy Guild Academy, where we deliver our Level 5 Diplomas in Integrative Counselling and Hypnotherapy.

Having our training programme based within a school community reflects something we value deeply: bringing education, professional development and therapeutic understanding together.

We’re grateful for the relationship we’ve built and look forward to continuing to develop our work together.

Are you a headteacher or senior school leader?

If you’d like to explore supervision for your leadership team, we’d love to hear from you.

📱 WhatsApp: 0151 272 1092
📧 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: www.uktgcounsellingservices.co.uk

UK Therapy Guild Counselling Services. Begin Your Journey to Wellness.

19/10/2026

Working together to support wellbeing. 💚

At UK Therapy Guild Counselling Services, we believe that wellbeing is strengthened when organisations come together, share their values and recognise the importance of supporting people.

We’re delighted to be connected with ProMed Health & Derma, founded by our friend Joanne, through a shared commitment to helping people access the support they need.

Through this connection, ProMed clients can access counselling and hypnotherapy support online through UK Therapy Guild Counselling Services.

Our approach recognises that people have different needs at different times. We offer accessible counselling with trainee counsellors working towards their placement hours, alongside support from experienced counsellors for those who may benefit from a more experienced level of therapeutic input. Hypnotherapy is another option available through our service.

For us, partnerships are about more than organisations working alongside one another. They’re about building connections that help people feel supported and make it easier to find appropriate help when they need it.

It was lovely to spend time chatting with Joanne at ProMed. Relationships built on trust, shared values and a genuine commitment to people’s wellbeing matter to us, and we’re pleased to be developing this connection.

🩵 ProMed Health & Derma
🌐 www.promed-clinic.co.uk

🧡 UK Therapy Guild Counselling Services
📱 WhatsApp: 0151 272 1092
📧 [email protected]
🌐 www.uktgcounsellingservices.co.uk

Begin Your Journey to Wellness.

Hypnotherapy

19/10/2026

Supporting wellbeing in educational settings. ❤️

With almost 30 years of experience in education, a degree in SEND and a Master’s in Education, I understand that supporting children involves much more than what happens in the classroom.

Every child has their own experiences, needs and ways of understanding the world. Creating environments where children feel understood, emotionally supported and able to thrive matters.

My professional journey has brought together my background in teaching, my work in counselling and my role as Founder and Director of UK Therapy Guild Academy of Integrative Counselling & Hypnotherapy, where we train future counselling and hypnotherapy practitioners.

Alongside the Academy, I lead UK Therapy Guild Counselling Services, through which I work directly with educational settings, including Bank View School, a specialist SEND provision.

I value the opportunity to work with schools that recognise the importance of emotional wellbeing and understand that supporting children means seeing the whole person, not just their educational needs.

My experience across education, SEND and therapeutic practice shapes the way I approach this work, with a focus on understanding, compassion and support that responds to the needs of each setting.

I’m keen to build further working relationships with schools and educational settings that share this commitment.

Would your school like to explore working with us?

If you’re a school leader or education professional interested in discussing how UK Therapy Guild Counselling Services could support your setting, I’d love to hear from you.

📱 WhatsApp: 0151 272 1092
📧 Email: [email protected]
🌐 Website: www.uktgcounsellingservices.co.uk

UK Therapy Guild Counselling Services. Begin Your Journey to Wellness.

19/10/2026

Community, connection and creating opportunities. ❤️

At UK Therapy Guild, we believe that becoming a counsellor is about more than learning theory. It’s about taking that learning into the real world, developing confidence and making a meaningful difference.

That’s why we’re delighted to be working with I Am Me Collective CIC in Birkenhead, where one of our trainee counsellors is already undertaking their placement.

I Am Me Collective CIC supports its community through creative projects, personal development and opportunities that help people build confidence, express themselves and grow.

Opportunities like this help us connect professional counselling training with real-world experience, allowing our trainees to develop their skills while building links with organisations that support their communities.

We believe that when training providers and community organisations work together, we can create opportunities that benefit both aspiring counsellors and the communities they will go on to serve.

Does your organisation support people in the community?

We’re keen to build connections with organisations that share our commitment to supporting people and strengthening communities.

If you’d like to explore working with us and find out how we might be able to support your organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

📧 [email protected]

🌐 Find out more about I Am Me Collective CIC: www.iammecollectivecic.com

Developing counsellors. Connecting communities. Creating opportunities for change.

19/10/2026

When shared values become meaningful action. ❤️

On Friday, I met with Andy Reid MBE at the Standing Tall Foundation for our second meeting, and I’m delighted to share that we’ve agreed a partnership with UK Therapy Guild Counselling Services.

Following life-changing injuries sustained while serving in Afghanistan, Andy chose to dedicate himself to supporting others. Alongside John Tabern, he established the Foundation in 2020 to help people facing challenges with mental health, addiction and wellbeing.

That commitment to making a practical difference resonates deeply with me.

At the UK Therapy Guild, we believe counselling should be accessible, compassionate and grounded in a genuine understanding of people and their experiences. Our Academy trains future counsellors, while our Counselling Service works to make affordable support available to those who need it.

This partnership brings those two aims together.

The Standing Tall Foundation will be able to offer placement opportunities for our trainee counsellors to provide counselling support to people accessing its services.

For our trainees, this means valuable experience, professional development and the opportunity to put their learning into practice. For those accessing support, it creates another potential route to counselling.

For me, this is what meaningful collaboration looks like: two organisations bringing their strengths together to support people and strengthen our communities.

Thank you, Andy, for working with us to make this happen. I’m looking forward to seeing what we can achieve together.

❤️ Supporting people. Developing counsellors. Making a difference together.

Find out more: www.standingtallfoundation.org.uk

19/10/2026

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15/10/2026

09/10/2026

MYTH vs FACT 💛 | Anxiety & Therapy

MYTH: Feeling anxious means you’re not coping, and you should be able to sort it out yourself.

FACT: Anxiety is something many of us experience, and it doesn’t mean you’re weak or that you’re failing.

Sometimes, anxiety has roots that go much deeper than we realise. It can be shaped by our experiences, our relationships, the pressures we carry and the patterns we’ve learned along the way.

Therapy offers a safe, non-judgemental space to gently explore where those feelings might come from, recognise the patterns that keep us feeling stuck, and discover practical ways to feel calmer and more in control.

Whether through counselling, CBT approaches or hypnotherapy, the aim isn’t to fix you. You are not broken. It’s about helping you better understand yourself, reconnect with your strengths and find new ways of moving forward.

At UK Therapy Guild, we believe that sometimes, having the right person alongside us can make all the difference.

Choosing therapy isn’t giving up. It’s choosing yourself. 💛

If this resonates with you, please share it with someone who might need a gentle reminder of this today.

📩 [email protected]
📞 0151 272 1092
🌐 www.uktgcounsellingservices.co.uk

Hypnotherapy UKTherapyGuild Liverpool

08/10/2026

Sometimes people don’t need us to fix it. They need us to sit with them in it.

There’s a beautiful short talk by Brené Brown about the difference between sympathy and empathy, and it captures something that sits at the heart of good counselling.

Sympathy can sound like:

“I’m sorry this is happening to you.”

Empathy says:

“I can hear how difficult this is. I’m here with you.”

In counselling, we work from a place of empathy. We listen without judgement, create space for people to understand themselves, and help them feel genuinely heard.

But empathy doesn’t mean simply agreeing with everything someone says or keeping them comfortable.

Sometimes, when we are stuck, we can stay stuck because everyone around us is simply telling us how awful things are or how sorry they feel for us.

A good counsellor can gently challenge that.

Not by pushing.
Not by telling someone what they should do.
Not by taking away their autonomy.

But by helping them explore the things they may not yet be able to see for themselves.

“What keeps you here?”
“What would it mean if things were different?”
“What do you need?”
“What might you be ready to change?”

That is where counselling can become a place for movement.

A place where you can feel understood and begin to understand yourself.

At UK Therapy Guild Counselling Service, our counsellors offer a warm, person-centred space where you can talk, reflect, explore and, when you’re ready, begin to move forward.

🎥 Brené Brown’s talk on empathy and sympathy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw

Begin Your Journey to Wellness.

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🌐 www.uktgcounsellingservices.co.uk
📞 0151 272 1092

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