The North Leeds Therapy Centre

Complementary Therapies to Enhance Your Life


Counselling for Individuals and Couples

Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson (BACP Accredited Counsellor)

Counselling is 'talking with a purpose' to explore, discover and clarify ways of living more resourcefully and towards greater well being.

Counselling can help anyone seeking greater understanding of their thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It can benefit you if you are feeling stressed, anxious, or depressed because of personal, relationship or work problems. You may be going through a personal crisis such as a bereavement, relationship breakdown or redundancy. You may feel that you lack direction and that life makes no sense

A counsellor provides a calm, listening ear without judging or telling you what to do. Counselling gives you time to talk, space to discover your own resources and strategies to cope with difficult situations. Counselling helps you to come to terms with experiences and difficulties from the past and helps you to develop ways to cope with problems in the future.

Chris has had 15 years experience in counselling which has included work in GP surgeries and for EAPs (Bupa, Stressline, Topic). She worked for Relate for 13 years. She now works in private practice. Chris works with individuals and couples. She works holistically and integratively using the relational model.

Specialist Areas

  • Relationship counselling
  • divorces and separation
  • stress management
  • work related problems
  • panic
  • anxiety
  • depression
  • personal development
  • bereavement
  • sexual abuse
  • trauma
  • critical incident debriefing.

At the first appointment you will have the opportunity to discuss your problem and to decide if counselling is right for you. Some issues can be resolved in short-term counselling, whilst others may require longer term work.

Qualifications and Accreditation

  • BA (Hons)
  • Relate Trained (Cert C C Relate)
  • Post Graduate Certificate: Working with Diversity
  • UKRC registered
  • BACP accredited
  • Studying for MA in Psychological Therapies.

Chris regularly updates her skills by attending courses and workshops

Days and hours of work at North Leeds Therapy Centre …Monday and Thursday afternoons after 1pm.
Charges - Face to face for individuals: £37.50 and for couples: £43.00. Charges are per hour session.

Contact Chris on: 07932 549 434
or email c.dawson1@btopenworld.com

See Chris's web page: www.naturalhealthleeds.co.uk/Dawson.htm
and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy web site: www.bacp.co.uk