Bridget McConnell

Bridget is compassionate and highly experienced, accredited counsellor and psychotherapist. She specialises in embodied and therapeutic arts. Her theoretical approach is based upon Gestalt, transpersonal, and attachment theories, including some CBT as appropriate.

Hearing you, and offering a safe place for you to explore your experiences lies at the heart of Bridget’s approach. However, she also understands that it is sometimes hard to find words to adequately express difficult and distressing life events. Therefore, Bridget is also passionate about therapy that involves more than words alone and offers somatic, creative and trauma informed interventions. She is qualified in working creatively with trauma using approaches such as sand tray, art, body mapping, picture cards, emotional freedom technique, breathwork and focussing orientated therapy, amongst others.

Creative approaches offer gentle and spontaneous ways to access our deeper unconscious, where the keys to better understanding and to transforming our responses to life reside. Working with a sensitivity and a conscious awareness of how the body holds a memory of our lived experience allows safe access to our physiology and autonomic reactions. Bridget finds the combination of these approaches to be rich and powerful interventions for personal growth, that offer opportunities for self-discovery as well as effective grounding resources.

Maybe you have had counselling before and are looking for something deeper; maybe you are feeling a bit stuck or have experienced distress or traumatic events that are hard to verbalise. Working together according to your needs and preferences Bridget will adopt an approach to therapy that feels right for you. Bridget is always happy to answer any queries you may have about her approach.

Experience:

Bridget has over 10 years’ experience in counselling and psychotherapy and 30 years’ experience of working in various therapeutic fields, including bodywork. Her background is in the creative arts and holistic therapy.

During Bridget’s counselling career she has worked for the NHS in primary care, in boarding schools and as a supervisor of schools counsellors and those wishing to work creatively.  Bridget has lectured in counselling at all levels, and is currently teaching at Diploma and Degree level. She has also authored articles in working creatively and somatically online, in addition she offers bespoke CPD in adolescent metal health, trauma informed therapeutic arts and working with embodied approaches in talking therapy.

Fees:
From £80 (50m session)