Our Experience

We’re all qualified and experienced counsellors and have worked as counsellors in schools and colleges, women centres, charities, domestic and sexual abuse agencies as well as in private practice. Additionally, we have extensive experience in delivering employee counselling for both small and large organisations.

We’ve a broad range of experience working with people who come to counselling for many different reasons and we like to make accessing counselling as simple as possible. We’ve written an article explaining Why we started Halcyon Counselling which we think is worth a read and will give you an idea of where we’re coming from.

Why choose us?

We appreciate choosing a counsellor can be really difficult; the amount of counsellors can be overwhelming, the way they explain what they do can be confusing to non-counsellors. Our aim at Halcyon is to try and ‘demystify’ counselling, to help you feel comfortable contacting us but also to reassure you that we are competent to work with whatever you’re dealing with.

We know that some people might need reassurance that we’ve worked with their particular issue or concern before so we’ve listed on this page some of the reasons our clients have come to see us in the past.

This isn’t an exhaustive list and the the reason you're considering counselling might not be included.  Sometimes you might not actually be able to put your finger on, or give a reason as to why you feel as you do and that's okay.  Sometimes you might know what the problem is but not know how yet to deal with it and that's also okay.  

Please do call us or email us and find out if we can help.  

Mags, Kathy & Ian

Dean Clough Mills, Halifax, West Yorkshire

Some reasons people come to counselling

  • Anger

  • Bereavement & Grief

  • Bullying - school & work

  • Childhood Abuse and neglect

  • Confidence & Self Esteem

  • Dealing with diagnosis - ADHD & Autism

  • Depression & Anxiety

  • Domestic Abuse & Sexual Violence

  • Eating Disorders

  • Life transitions and changes

  • Relationships - infidelity, separation, divorce, polyamory

  • Self Harm & Suicidal Thoughts

  • Trauma & PTSD

  • Understanding self - identity & purpose

  • Work related issues - coaching, stress, redundancy restructures, relocation