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Welcome to Counselling Services in France
Welcome to my website, which I hope will provide you with the information you are looking for. My name is Simone Cross and I am a fully qualified UKCP and EAP registered psychotherapist.
My practice is based on the belief that psychotherapy and counselling, can help us to learn how to use the problems, flaws and fears which appear to stand in our way, as pathways to greater understanding and personal freedom.
The central focus of my
work, is to help you to explore your unique life experience and to make
sense of your difficulties, in a way which is both deeply meaningful and
healing. You can learn more about how I work in My Approach.
I have worked as a Counsellor and
Psychotherapist in a variety of settings, including a NHS Community Mental
Health Team, and have experience of working with a wide range of diagnoses and
issues, such as stress; anxiety; depression, loss and grief; personality disorders;
family conflict; life changes and transitions; low self-esteem; emotional,
physical and sexual abuse; suicidal feelings and self-harm; problem solving; relationship difficulties,
separation and divorce.
I have a special interest in the interplay between mindfulness and psychotherapy, and talk about this further in Individual Counselling. Mindfulness practice engages calm attention and cultivates the capacity to accept experience as it is. Whilst mindfulness can be defined in many different ways, it is fundamentally about paying attention with flexibility, openness, and curiosity. "When we are mindful, our attention is not entangled in the past or future, and we are not judging or rejecting what is occurring at the moment. We are present...... Everyday mindfulness allows us to develop insight into psychological functioning and to respond skillfully to new situations." (Germer 2004).
"When we commit ourselves to paying attention in an open way, without falling prey to our own likes and dislikes, opinions and prejudices, projections and expectations, new possibilities open up and we have a chance to free ourselves from the straitjacket of unconsciousness. I like to think of mindfulness simply as the art of conscious living."
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Whatever your circumstances,
counselling and psychotherapy can provide you with a supportive environment, to enable
you to make your life richer, fuller and more meaningful.
Counselling Services in France offers counselling and psychotherapy appointments, either face-to-face, or online via Skype.
Counselling Services in France is
based in Verchaix, which is located within easy reach of Morillon, Samoens,
Cluses, Morzine, Les Gets, Megeve and within a hour's drive of Annecy, Chamonix and Geneva.
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