Accredited Registered Member No: NCS23-03704

welcome to chris hoyte counselling & psychotherapy

I listen and help my clients to ​process the causes of stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, to better manage and cope with the symptoms, and to feel better. 

​I also specialise in the different presentations of diagnosed or undiagnosed ADHD, Combined, Inattentive and Hyperactive, and other Neurodiversities.
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​I am a relaxed qualified professional who is kind, warm, empathic, authentic and will never judge you.

I naturally and warmly focus on what you want to tell me about and help you to make sense of it all and feel better.

I don't consider myself to be the expert on you, that's you, and I won't direct the path you take, but I will help you to find your way.
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ARE YOU:

• Feeling low, depressed, anxious, frightened, isolated, angry, rejected, guilt, shame or just nothing at all, just traumatised and numb?
• Feeling frightened that nobody understands or gets you? Getting 'you should', 'you ought to' and 'you need to' advice from those well meaning people around you?
• Looking for meaning and purpose, and a clearer sense of your own identity? Are you feeling lost?
• Having relationship difficulties, experiencing family conflict, and feeling trapped, confused, anxious, fearful?
• Struggling with the effects of trauma?
• Struggling with the effects or loss, grief & bereavement?
• Wanting to make changes in your life? Need some help to identify the steps required, or just need to talk through what you would like to achieve and how?

DO YOU FEEL:

• You have no time?
• You have no money?
• Your physical health needs to improve?
• Your life is out of balance?
• You're always thinking about what is next?
• You're always thinking there is something better?
• You can't speak up?
• You're living your life for other people?
• You have nobody to talk to and no way to express yourself freely and safely?

I understand because I have expereienced all of the above first hand. This doesn't mean I’m defective - it just means I'm human.

​Counselling helped me feel better and it may help you feel better too, and lead to positive changes in your life through a new or rekindled awareness of your own innate sense of identity, self esteem, resiliance, motivation, happiness, kindness, forgiveness, excitement, autonomy and independence.

Even with supportive family and friends it can be difficult to talk to them about your inner most thoughts and feelings. Talking to someone who is independent, where there is empathy, authenticity and no judgement, like a Counsellor, is often easier. contact me

you - the client

You maybe seeking counselling to help you cope with difficult and distressing events, feelings and thoughts in your life. You might be experiencing the underlying effects of:

• addiction
• anger
• anxiety
• bereavement
• bullying
• childhood trauma
• ​depression
• dissatisfaction with life
• eating disorders
• fear
• guilt
• identity
• job insecurity
• loneliness
• low confidence
• low self esteem
• motivation
• past or present trauma​
• role/purpose in life
• ​self limiting beliefs
• shame
• social isolation

​Finding yourself here is the first step towards help.
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Me -the counsellor

As a Counsellor, I am not here to impose my own solution or belief on you but to help you with what you need at the time, in a non-judgemental, empathic and genuine way. I work with you to help you explore your life and help you to find what you need.  I utilise my knowledge, experience and intuition to help you:

• see situations fully
• process archaic thoughts, feelings, emotions, desires and values
• find new beliefs & perspectives, or re-energise old ones
• find new ways of coping
• understand yourself​
• accept yourself
• grow and change
• ​feel better

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Registered Member No: NCS23-03704

therapy

Our sessions together may involve talking about life events, feelings, emotions, relationships, ways of thinking and patterns of behaviour. I will listen, encourage and empathise, but may, if you are willing, gently challenge you to help you see your issues more clearly or in a different way. We work together with your permission.

You may wish to express yourself in other ways, such as drawing, writing, or exploring dreams. Creativity and metaphor can be a route for some to expressing, processing  and understanding feelings and emotions. contact me

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'The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change'.
​(Carl Rogers)

First

Reach Out

Our sessions will take place at a regular, agreed time in my ‘safe’ private room in Torquay where you and I will not be overheard or interrupted.  
 
Our sessions will generally involve you talking and expressing yourself as freely as possible and me being fully present, listening actively, responding warmly and genuinely, gently holding clear boundaries and kindly supporting you.

The atmosphere encourages a conversation to occur and flow spontaneously without having to justify every word. Yet, these conversations remain sensible and meaningful in a way that is always relevant to your situation.
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Now let's WORK together

Therapy

I don't consider myself to be the expert on you, that's you, and I won't direct the path you take, but I will help you to find your way.

Humans have an innate ability to achieve and maintain emotional wellbeing through a balanced integration of mind, body and spirit. Thoughts and emotions are part of our bodies; a doctor  treats a wound but we do the healing, the doctor is simply the catalyst for healing. Similarly, if we hurt emotionally, the Counsellor is the catalyst for us to use our innate abilities to heal. contact me

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Then

Change

Counselling and Psychotherapy can be enlightening and liberating. Exploring the origins of and reasons for negative thoughts, emotions and feelings can lead to a deeper understanding, acceptance, forming new perspectives and developing new beliefs.

These new ways of being can lead to other positive changes in your life. Contact & Location
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