Therapy

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LGBTPlus Can Help You With The Following Issues

Addiction

Motivating you to change

Addictions are often misunderstood as there is an unhelpful focus upon behaviour e.g. compulsively watching online porn and less on the nature of the addiction itself and what purpose it is serving.

  • Chemsex taking over your life
  • Watching too much porn online
  • Apps taking up too much time
  • Drugs or alcohol becoming a problem
  • Do you feel sexually compulsive or out-of-control
  • Concerned about what drugs you use
  • Are drugs or alcohol ruining your sex life

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HIV & AIDS

Your sexual health & wellbeing

Whilst the effective treatment for HIV has progressed enormously over the years since the 1980s, there is still considerable misunderstanding, ignorance and stigma attached to the risk of contracting HIV and what it is to live with HIV.

  • Worried about becoming HIV+ or contracting other STIs
  • Trying to come to terms with what it means to be HIV+
  • Negative and thinking about taking PrEP
  • Positive and thinking about risk and U=U
  • Unsure about whether or not to start taking HIV medication
  • Concerned about your health and wellbeing
  • Confused about whether to disclose your HIV status and to whom
  • Taking too many sexual risks

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SEXUAL ABUSE

Supporting & helping survivors

You may have suffered in silence for years, or have always found it difficult to talk about something that happened to you a long time ago. Talking to someone in a safe, non-judgemental space can start the healing process.

  • Hiding a secret, need to be believed
  • Finding sexual relationships difficult
  • Suffering from shame and/or guilt
  • Feel isolated and alone
  • Trying to understand your true sexuality

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SEXUALITY

Helping you lead an authentic & fulfilled life

You may have feelings of shame linked to your sexuality that go back to your childhood years. There may be issues around bullying and feelings of isolation at school.

  • Confused about your sexuality
  • Attracted to people of the same gender and feel unsure
  • Feeling lonely because you feel different to other people
  • Don’t know how, or whether to come out to friends and family

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RELATIONSHIPS

Counselling to assist relationship changes

I offer one-to-one counselling and can help you look at issues in your current relationship that may help you decide how you feel and what, if anything, you may want to do.

  • Unsure about your relationship
  • Problems communicating with each other
  • Lack of intimacy or sexual fulfilment
  • Feelings of jealousy, frustration or anger
  • Want an open relationship
  • Want to explore consensual non-monogamy
  • Want to explore polyamory
  • Feeling stuck or trapped in your relationship
  • Feeling that you and your partner are drifting apart

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GENDER IDENTITY

Finding the more authentic and real you

No matter where you are on the journey in coming to terms with your gender identity; Trans (M-F, F-M), Non-Binary, Genderqueer, Gender Fluid, having someone to talk to freely and openly, without fear of judgement is vital in helping you understand who you are and how you wish to live.

  • Feeling confused and alone
  • Feeling misunderstood
  • Can’t talk to friends or family
  • Feel isolated and depressed
  • Have suicidal thoughts entered your mind
  • Want to explore who you really are

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ANXIETY

Helping you to cope with worry, stress & anxiety

Together we can help you to better understand what makes you anxious and why. We can help you come to terms with being an anxious person or somebody who is prone to anxiety.

  • Feel worried
  • Feel stressed
  • Difficulty in sleeping
  • Difficulty concentrating
  • Feeling restless or on edge

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DEPRESSION

Helping you understand & cope with depression

I can help you explore the thoughts and feelings associated with these experiences with a view to developing different thought patterns that can help you cope better.

  • Difficult to get up in the morning
  • Tired and lethargic
  • Lack of appetite
  • Want to withdraw from the world
  • Feel little pleasure from anything you do
  • Feeling worthless or guilty
  • Suicidal thoughts and feelings

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SELF ESTEEM

Helping your confidence and self-belief

I can help you to understand yourself better. Look at what you value about yourself, how you relate to others and in what circumstances you don’t feel good about yourself or your abilities.

  • Lack confidence
  • Feel others are better than you
  • Not able to stand up for yourself
  • Easily influenced by other people
  • Feel invisible around other people

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