Marie Myles

Marie is an integrative counsellor and psychotherapist who specialises in working with eating presentations and general mental health.

As an experienced integrative counsellor and psychotherapist – I can offer you a safe and non-judgemental space to talk openly about your personal challenges. Therapy sessions provide a welcome opportunity to get things off your chest – maybe previous experiences which were challenging, or hard to talk about. Or perhaps you struggled to find the support you needed to feel heard and understood at the time. Keeping familiar or distressing thoughts and emotions at bay can sometimes become an effort. Or you might find difficult thoughts or feelings keep coming up for you time and time again when they have been difficult to fully digest or come to term with.

As an integrative counsellor and psychotherapist, I can meet you exactly where you are, explore with you what you are trying to dealing with and how this may affect you in your day to day life. Together we can explore what’s been difficult or what kind of support you need to feel differently or consider things in a wider context.

You are welcome to bring all aspects of your self and your experience to sessions. Any life event or ongoing circumstance which matters to you is valid – such as work related stress, difficult communications / interpersonal dynamics with colleagues, or perhaps your partner, friends, or family. Maybe things not always turning out the way you’d hoped and the accumulative impact that might have on your expectations of life.

I can offer you my skills and experience as an empathically attuned listener and facilitator of the therapy process. I can provide you with a structured opportunity to reflect on your own personal tensions or pressures, at a pace which feels safe and comfortable to you.

As an experienced practitioner I can offer you support in a structured therapy framework to help you in the process of…

• gaining new insights into your self and making supportive choices
• allowing new ideas, or ways of coping to emerge for you over time
• motivating yourself to move forward at your own pace
• Strengthening inherent personal qualities of tolerance and resilience

Personal reflection can create opportunities for deeper change and personal growth. I believe in the inherent potential we all have for leaning and growth; finding new ways to understand or move beyond established personal beliefs or expectations.

My professional background – I have worked as a primary care counsellor with the NHS since 2015, supporting adults’ from all walks of life, to cope effectively with experience and symptoms of depression and anxiety, or perhaps struggling with life events such as; personal loss/change, bereavement, grief or childhood trauma. Previously I have worked for several voluntary sector organisations, offering emotional support to adults’ as a trainee counsellor while studying for my diploma and later professional accreditation.

• 2021
• Eating Disorders and Trauma, Online Workshop, Pam Virdi Training
• 2020
• Online Private Practice Conference/Communication; Can You Hear Me, Bacp
• 2019
• Working at Relational Depth, M. Cooper, Compassionate Mind Foundation
• Experiential Existential Workshop, G. Madison, Northern Therapeutic Alliance
• Emotional Pain – Science & Strategies, Dr. C. Dunkley, Gray Rock
• 2018
• Dealing with Distress; Working with Self Harm & Suicide, Pods, Carolyn Spring
• Working with Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Practice, Pods, Carolyn Spring
• 2017
• The Supervisory Relationship, R. Shohet, Stanton Therapies
• Assessment and Management of Suicidality, A Psychological Approach
• 2015
• Counselling for Depression Competency Certificate, Keele University
• Emotional Freedom Technique, Language Skills Master Class. Delves Assocs
• 2014
• Focusing Level 4 -Webinar, Focusing Resources
• Focusing Level 3 -Webinar, Focusing Resources
• Focusing Level 2 – Webinar, Focusing Resources
• Focusing Level 1 – Webinar, Focusing Resources
• Emotional Freedom Technique – Level 2 Training, Resolve
• 2013
• Working with Trauma, Resolve Staff Support Service Training
• Mediation Training, Resolve Staff Support Service, Chesterfield
• Emotional Freedom Technique – Level 1 Training, Resolve
• Mindfulness in Relationship, Karuna Institute
• 2011
• Winnicott in The Workplace, West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy
• 2010
• Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Hidden Trauma, Wolverhampton Sexual Abuse Forum
• Tight Ropes and Safety Nets, Counselling Suicidal Clients, A. Reeves Training
• Teaching Clients to Use Mindfulness Skills, Birmingham, Stanton Therapies
• Introduction to Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Birmingham, Stanton Therapies
• To Have and To Hold / Winnicott, C H Counselling & Psychotherapy, Worcester
• 2009
• Exploring The Shadow / Jung, C H Counselling &Psychotherapy, Worcester
• Safe From Abuse, South Staffordshire & Shropshire Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, St Georges’ Hospital, Stafford
• Attachment Theory and Adult Mental Health, UFP Mental Health Updates
• CBT Boot Camp – Building Core Clinical Competencies, Dr. C. Padesky
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Depression, W. Suffolk CBT Service
• A Cognitive Behavioural Approach to When Therapy Gets Stuck, Stanton
• 2007
• Diploma (Higher Education) Integrative Counselling, University of Birmingham
• 2005
• Working with Grief and Loss, Stafford & District Bereavement and Loss Service
• 2004
• Counselling Skills Certificate, University of Birmingham
• 1988
• Registered General Nurse Training, Charring Cross School of Nursing, London
• 1985
• B.A (Hons) Interdisciplinary Human Studies, University of Bradford