Impossible? It might seem so but I welcome the opportunity to show you how it is possible to not only cope – but even live well with brain-change by challenging your ideas about dementia – teaching you new ways to manage – and help you deal with the emotional roller-coaster of brain-change!

Over a series of weekly one-to-one on-line 50-minute sessions, we safely identify your concerns, your thoughts, your feelings and how you can make real changes within you to increase your resilience, confidence, skills and your ability to cope with what seems an impossible situation whether you - or someone you care for has been diagnosed with dementia.

I may have the training and knowledge of counselling and brain-changes, but importantly you are the expert on you, your unique situation and your relationships.  Working together we can seek new ways that work for you to move forward in a life that is inevitably going to be different

Knowing what you want to achieve from our sessions is key to a successful outcome.  But understanding who you are and how you think and process information is also essential for us to establish the perspectives that enables you to build on your strengths, minimise unhelpful thinking (we all do it!) and create changes in behaviour or thinking processes - so that you achieve are in the best possible emotional shape for the journey ahead.

I give you a safe space to share your innermost thoughts that may be impossible to share with people you love and are close to. I help you to see things more clearly.  Just speaking these thoughts that go round and round in your head:

• Looking at them
• Analysing them 
• Processing them 

Stopping the endless cycle of ‘what ifs’, reducing anxiety and increasingly our capacity to cope with what ’is’ - rather than fearing that we will be unable to cope with what may never happen!

‘Our greatest fear is not what we think is ahead of us – but that we will not be up to the task’.

Whether you are seeking help because you have been diagnosed with brain-change, or help because you are living with someone diagnosed with brain-change or seeking help for someone diagnosed with brain-change, I would be very pleased to hear from you.