Welcome to Gill Doust Psychotherapy
A confidential space to explore the thoughts, feelings and challenges in your life
Welcome, and thank you for visiting. My name is Gill and I am a psychotherapist based in North London, within easy reach of Harringay, Green Lanes and Finsbury Park.
Introducing myself
I am a Humanistic Psychotherapist with over thirty years' experience.
I currently work with individuals, couples and families in person and online. I run women’s self esteem ongoing groups and workshops. I supervise psychotherapists individually and in small groups. I am registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP).
I provide a safe space for you to explore your feelings, thoughts and patterns of behaviour. Our time together is confidential.
The heart of psychotherapy is a dialogue. My role is to listen, witness, ask questions, clarify and give feedback. It is not my job to judge or criticize you. My aim is to support you to make sense of what may be troubling you and to find ways of changing and redirecting unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaving.
In counselling and psychotherapy we look at your relationship with yourself; whether you are critical or compassionate, how you hold your boundaries, your ability to nurture yourself.
Each person is unique and so I adjust my pace and way of working to what you as an individual need.
“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”
Carl Rogers.
My experience as a psychotherapist
I trained with the Spectrum Centre for Psychotherapy in North London and gained accreditation from the UKCP. At Spectrum I became a staff member, responsible for aspects of running the centre, and taught on the centre’s psychotherapy and counselling training courses. I was also a member of the Incest Intervention Project. I went on to become a supervisor of psychotherapists.
I work as a Humanistic therapist drawing on different therapeutic approaches including Gestalt and Formative Psychology, the work of Stanley Keleman. I am interested in Polyvagal Theory and healing through somatic responses to anxiety and depression.
Before training as a psychotherapist I worked in early years care, as a teacher in further education and a trainer on equality and diversity for a local authority in London.
What issues can psychotherapy help with?
People come to me for help with a wide range of issues. Here are a few of the more common difficulties that can be supported through therapy:
Confidence and self-esteem
Depression
Feelings of stress and anxiety
Panic attacks
Anger management
Relationship difficulties or breakdown
Attachment
Adoption
Grief, loss and bereavement
Trauma and post-traumatic stress
Issues related to sex and sexuality
Abuse
Addiction
Difficulties at work
The transition to retirement
Where I work
I work in Harringay, North London.
The area is close to Harringay and Harringay Green Lanes rail stations and Manor House tube and is served by buses 29, 141, 341 and W5. I can provide parking vouchers for drivers.
Cost of therapy with me
My fee for individuals, couples and families is £85 for one hour.
Contacting me
You are welcome to phone me on my work line 020 8341 9168 or email me at gill.doust@gmail.com
I will then suggest that we meet for an initial session where you tell me about the issues you wish to explore, I leave space for you to ask questions and I give you some information about how I work and run my practice. I then ask you to take some time after this session to think about whether you would like to work with me on a regular basis.
Suggestions for reading
- Irvin Yalom: The Gift of Therapy
- Connie Dawson and Jean Illsley Clarke: Growing Up Again
- Virginia Satir: Peoplemaking
- Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score
- Daniel and Gabor Maté: The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
- Stanley Keleman: Emotional Anatomy
- Deb Dana: Polyvagal Practices
Useful links
In crisis contact The Samaritans: www.samaritans.org
The United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP): www.psychotherapy.org.uk
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