Michael is a Senior Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist with 26 years’ post-qualification experience. In his early years as a counsellor he worked for WPF Counselling North in Leeds, The Tuke Centre in York, and The Oakdale Centre in Harrogate. He established his own private practice in 1997 and also worked within NHS Psychological Therapies Department as Practice Counsellor for the Tadcaster Medical Practice and the Jorvik Medical Practice in York. In 2004 he took up the post of Head of Counselling within NHS Psychological Therapies with responsibility for the recruitment and management of counsellors working within GP practices in the York and Selby areas. In 2007 he also took on the management of the local Primary Care Mental Health Team. He retired from the NHS in 2011 and now works part-time in private practice. Michael sees clients for brief and medium-term work. He works with a wide range of issues, with a particular interest in attachment and relationship problems, anxiety, depression and trauma, and the recovery of motivation and vitality. He also provides clinical supervision to other counsellors and psychotherapists and runs training workshops for therapists on understanding and regulating the biological fear system. I will be retiring from clinical work at the end of March 2023, but will continue to run workshops for a time. See details of my new workshop for counsellors and psychotherapists "Fear and the Therapist" here. For my thoughts on wellbeing, the fear system and depression see my new website: www.michaelguilding.com
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