Catherine O'Riordan
James O'Riordan
Gestalt Counsellor - NLP Practitioner - Hypnotherapist - Solution Focused Couples Counsellor
I will provide a supportive relationship for you to better understand yourself, your relationships and life in general. Together we will investigate ways for you to develop a more balanced internal dialogue; I may invite you to try some creative ways of speaking to yourself and others.

About James
I am 64 and a white, London-Irish male. I have been married for 30 years to Catherine (also a psychotherapist) and we have two grown-up children, a son and a daughter.
I have had many jobs, mostly to do with education, politics and coaching. I still work part time as a tutor, mostly primary aged children. I have always worked in a way that celebrates each person and respects their culture, beliefs and values. Perhaps this is why many people from non-UK backgrounds seem to have sought me out. I am also familiar with the different ways being neurodiverse shapes life. I fully embrace working in a way that embraces difference and diversity as difference is what makes life and people interesting.
Perhaps because of my Hypnotherapy and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) background I have worked with many people with sleep, eating and health problems, including ‘functional disorders’ and Long Covid.
Counselling can be a positive, even enjoyable experience but also do expect to lean into some uncomfortable stuff along the way.
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I work with people 16 and over.
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Most clients engage in weekly sessions.
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Each appointment lasts 50 minutes.
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I offer appointments in person, online and hybrid.
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Sessions can be open-ended or time limited.
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I work from my office at home in NG4
My work is supervised.
I have a clinical will. -
My therapy room is on the ground floor with ground floor WC access.
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I have a clinical will.
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My work is supervised.
When we start working together we will explore your expectations of therapy - from past experience or media representations - and explore what it is you want help with.
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