About me

I'm an accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society, which holds a register of therapists accredited by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care, a national regulatory body for healthcare professionals in the UK. I also have a DBS certificate.

I trained at King's College London University and at The College of Cognitive Behavioural Therapies London. I hold a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, a Certificate in Counselling and three postgraduate diplomas in CBT: a Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Counselling and Psychotherapy, and an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Cognitive Behavioural Counselling and Psychotherapy.

About CBT

CBT is one of the main traditions in counselling and psychotherapy and is designed to help create change when change feels difficult. In sessions, we explore together the difficulties you are experiencing in order to understand how you find yourself reacting when facing problems and challenges. We then begin to identify specific steps you can take to start making changes.

For example, how we think about ourselves or our situation affects how we feel and act so in sessions we will explore approaches to thinking about your situation that will help you deal with the difficulties you are experiencing including how to overcome the influence of unhelpful or negative thinking which can be easy to get caught up in at difficult moments.

Equally, our feelings influence our thinking and motivate our behaviour so it's important that we work on helping you recognise and manage the feelings that arise at difficult moments.

How we feel and think is also affected by how we act so we will work on helping you let go of habits or behaviours that are having a negative impact and focus your energies on taking action to create the changes you want to make.

There are different types of CBT and the types that I specialise in are: Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Therapy (CT) and Mindfulness-Based CBT.

This combination provides a wide range of approaches that I will adapt to suit your specific situation so that we find the way forward that works best for you. These approaches are based on extensive research have been shown to be effective for addressing many issues.

If you would like more details or to discuss your situation, please call me on 07956 283 702 or email me at owen@owennewman.co.uk.

All conversations are confidential.