Keziah Bolton Counselling

“The relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have”

– Jane Travis

My name is Keziah and I’m a qualified integrative counsellor and registered member of the BACP. Based in Barnes, I offer supportive therapy to both adults and children experiencing emotional difficulty.

I offer a non judgemental, safe and confidential space for you to explore your thoughts and feelings and make sense of your experiences. Sessions are carefully tailored to your needs and delivered at a pace that’s right for you.

I work using an Integrative approach to counselling. This not only allows me to draw on different theoretical models and adapt my approach to suit the needs of each individual, but also be more versatile in my approach in meeting the emotional needs and world views of those from different cultural, social and ethnic backgrounds.

How Can Therapy Help Me?

Most people at some point in their lives and for various personal reasons experience periods of difficulty. It’s easier than ever to get lost and consumed in the day to day stresses of life and often our focus is on everyone else but ourselves. Life can feel overwhelming and during these times we can feel confused, anxious, lonely and trapped.

Counselling provides a safe, impartial and confidential space where time is dedicated just for you. I aim to provide a nurturing space in which change, healing and growth can occur. Whether you’re experiencing emotional difficulty, anxiety, stress or low mood, struggling to cope with change or just need someone to talk to, you don’t have to face these feelings alone.

I view therapy as a collaborative process in which we focus on your unique goals, values, and needs and where your thoughts, feeling and experiences will be welcomed and accepted.

I will work with you to help you explore your thoughts and feelings and work through any challenges you are facing with empathy and professional understanding.

I have experience working successfully with clients in areas including low mood, low self esteem and confidence, stress, anxiety, trauma, codependency, loss and grief, perinatal mental health and domestic abuse. I work with individuals to:

Identify how past experiences can affect present behaviours and responses
Explore and express difficult emotions to others
Explore and make sense of personal experiences
Identify solutions
Find an authentic voice through self discovery
Identify unhealthy patterns of relating to self and others
Explore losses and identify ways to cope more effectively
Form more meaningful relationships with self and others
Identify personal needs and self care

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful parts of us.” David Richo

Services

We are all unique individuals and many of our personal experiences contribute to how we relate to the world, ourselves and others.

I use various methods to help clients explore their thoughts and feelings, tailored to the individual. This can include play therapy, talk therapy, and using art as a form of expression.

Children

Play Therapy is based upon the fact that play is a child’s natural medium of self-expression and communication.
Play therapy can help children to play out their feelings and tell their story.

When working with children, I use a range of art and play therapy activities which can be used as an expressive and creative outlet for children helping them to access those feelings that have no words.

This form of therapy can be used as a way to relate to the child’s understanding of the world and help them develop a better understanding of their experiences and feelings.

“Inside every child, there is a story that needs to be told” Winnicott

Tweens and Teens

Many young people today are struggling with the way they feel. Some young adults may develop a range of emotional difficulties leaving them feeling unable to cope. It can sometimes be difficult for young people to express how they feel to someone they know. Counselling provides a safe, impartial and confidential space to explore their thoughts and feelings and make sense of their experiences without judgement.

I work with young adults to explore a range of issues including: social and academic pressures, relationship and friendship issues, social anxieties, peer pressure and low self esteem.

I work by providing emotional support to help them identify and develop strategies for coping and enhance their mental wellbeing.

Adults

Feeling overwhelmed, low or anxious? You don’t have to face feeling this way alone.

Whatever it is that you might be going through, talking through difficult emotions can help us to recognise unhelpful patterns of relating and identify the effects of past experiences.

I will support you to explore your thoughts and feelings and explore new ways of thinking, behaving and relating at a pace that feels right for you.

When we are better able to understand ourselves, our actions, reactions and how we relate to the world and others, it becomes possible to regain a sense of control promoting emotional wellbeing and recovery.

Therapy Group For Parents (New)

Wherever you are in your journey, it’s important to focus on your own mental wellbeing as well as your baby’s.

I offer tailored perinatal workshops for new parents and parents to be, where journeys can be shared and time can be taken just for you.

I aim to provide a safe, non-judgmental and nurturing space for you to be able to share your thoughts and feelings with others in a similar situation to you.

Sessions will be tailored to the individual needs of the group. 1:1 sessions can also be arranged.

To find out more about, please contact me via telephone or email.

Fees

I offer both short term and open ended counselling with empathy and professional understanding. Sessions will be carefully tailored to your needs and delivered at a pace that’s right for you.

50 Minute Sessions
£40*
*Evening sessions after 6pm will incur an additional £5 charge

I offer a free no obligation telephone consultation for us to discuss your concerns and goals and help to decide whether counselling could be beneficial to you. A reduced rate is available for students and those on a low income (proof of status required). Please enquire for more information.

TRAINING & QUALIFICATIONS

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I hold a diploma in therapeutic counselling with an integrative approach. I came to counselling as a second career after having spent 10 years working within the NHS. It was my own personal experiences of therapy that led me to pursue my career in the field.

I have experience working with both vulnerable children and young adults as a School counsellor with Place2Be – A charity counselling service for schools, (http://www.place2be.org.uk), providing therapeutic counselling and emotional support to students to enhance both the mental wellbeing and prospects of each individual child.

In addition to this, I have experience working voluntarily for a Bereavement service based in South West London and alongside my private practice, facilitate group work with victims of domestic abuse.

I am a member of the British Association For Counselling and Psychotherapy and abide by their ethical framework which guides the ethical principles and values at the heart of my practice. I participate in regular supervision, fundamental to the provision of safe, ethical and effective counselling.

Qualifications

Member of The British Association For Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)
Diploma in Therapeutic Integrative counselling
Level 2, 3 certificate in Counselling skills CPCAB
Online and telephone counselling certificate 2021

Professional Training In:

Traumatic Bereavement, Substance Use and Awareness
Bereavement by Suicide
Attachment and Loss
Domestic Violence & Sexual Abuse
Perinatal mental health (in collaboration with the London Perinatal Mental Health Network)