John Asher M.FETT

of Teddington Middlesex

Hypnotherapy, Psychotherapy and Counselling

After graduating in chemistry, John followed a career at Shell, mainly personnel roles. After early retirement in 1990 he studied and then took up counselling as a second career, later gaining a qualification in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy. John studied counselling at the Central School of Counselling and Therapy and at Kensington Consultation Centre (both individual and family courses). His diploma in Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy was awarded by Uncommon Knowledge and he is a member of the Hypnotherapy Association. Currently he treats clients at the Kaleidoscope Drugs Centre in Kingston and works from home in private practice. He has a wide range of life experience, such as working as a mediator for 10 years with Kingston Friends Mediation. He is married with three children and plays the violin in a ceilidh band and the Kingston Philharmonia and he enjoys golf, bridge and gardening. He attends training courses, reads widely about therapy and hypnotherapy and regularly meets a colleague with whom he discusses case studies.

There are a number of considerations which inform John's general approach. He doesn't work with an overall theory which clients 'fit-in' to and he treats each person as a unique individual and uses the information they supply to him during the early part of the consultation to design and develop strategies to use in trance which help the client achieve their aims. John always accepts and starts from where the client/patient is - it's quite useless to say you shouldn't do this or that or mustn't act in this or that way. He accepts and respects the way the client is when they came and helps them to change in ways they want to (provided they are legitimate and safe!)

John uses 'reframes' constantly throughout the session, offering new, alternative and more positive ways of seeing and experiencing events. When appropriate he helps clients realise they are 'normal' and not so different from the many people who suffer from the same problems - often very reassuring. He works in helping clients with a broad range of conditions, but he likes to work according to a brief therapy approach and in the majority of cases, John aims to bring about improvement in one session, and well over half the people he treats, meet with a significant degree of success in one session. Sessions normally last 1 hour - the first probably a little longer. John follows up after a week to see how things are going and only arranges further sessions if the client requests it. John charges £60 per session ( with a concession fee of £45 for senior citizens and people on benefits, by agreement).

Acacia Therapy
11 Avenue Road,
Teddington,
Middlesex, TW11 0BT

Telephone: 020 8943 2272

Website: www.acaciatherapy.co.uk

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