Couples Therapy, Individual Counselling, Qualified Psychotherapist
I believe that if you talk to people through the story of your life and the lives that touched yours, you too can change lives.
Hello
Hello, my name is Daniel Dias, a CPCAB qualified therapeutic counsellor, a Gestalt Centre trained couples and relationships therapist, a mindfulness and compassion teacher. I am a member of the BACP.
I offer solution focused psychotherapy, individual counselling and couples therapy. My counselling philosophy is straight forward, I am here to facilitate the change you and/or your partner wish to make. I believe any change we desire for ourselves is possible, but what we do need is the right tools, commitment, repetition and self-awareness.
Research has shown that the single most important factor for a successful outcome from counselling is the strength of the working relationship between client and therapist. I love my work and put my heart and soul into building open, honest, and productive relationships with each and every client.
I am a modern therapist who brings his open authentic self, I keep my knowledge up to date and use the latest understanding from the field of neuroscience.
Everyone is unique, your issues are very personal and you will find that I will approach and respect them as such. I believe there is commonality to our struggles, experience upon which we can all draw.
I use tried and tested tools specifically designed to repair relationship fractures or breakdowns and alleviate the symptoms of anxiety, depression, trauma, and loss. Powerful tools that can help you reframe the underlying causes of your greatest challenges, a personalised toolkit for long lasting change.
I look forward to meeting and working with you. Click here to make an appointment.
How I Work
Initially we will have a free-of-charge no obligation telephone or online introduction of approximately 20 minutes. During which we can get to know each other, you can assess if you feel I am right for you and vice versa.
Following this initial introduction we will book our first 90 minute session for both of you attend.
Approximately one week after our first session, I will have an individual one off 60 minute session with each of you.
Again, approximately one week after that we will start our regular 90 minute fortnightly sessions.
The number of sessions we have together is entirely in your control, you decide upon what you would like to work and for how long.
My Focus
In a word "you", my entire focus and approach is on facilitating a space and a programme for you to achieve both your relationship and therapeutic goals.
During the early stages of our relationship we will work together to identify the destructive, painful, and unhelpful, processes and behaviours that are negatively impacting your ability to repair, maintain, and enhance your relationship.
Once we have identified your most pressing issues, together we will set your relationship and therapeutic goals. I will suggest and offer strategies, exercises, reflections, and new ways of thinking designed specifically to help you achieve your goals.
Whether you have come to me in a moment of crisis, with a relationship in need of repair, or simply that you want to explore way of enhancing your relationship. I am sure I can help find you ways to do that.
Fees
My fees are designed to be fair, reasonable, and accessible. Please bear in mind when considering whether to work with me that couples sessions are 1 1/2 hours rather than 50 minutes, and that my sessions are fortnightly as opposed to weekly.
Longer sessions fortnightly allows more time and space for discovery and reflection. More time for new strategies and thinking to embed themselves in your relationship, and test what does and doesn't work for you.
I offer discounts if you book your sessions as a block. Please find below my current fees as at 1st January 2024:
Initial telephone or online introduction - Free-of-charge
90 minute face-to-face couples session - £75
50 minute face-to-face individual session - £60
My Story
My wife and I are parents to three wonderful grown up children with two grandchildren. I have varied interests from technology to sport, I am a keen golfer and at sixty-one still play walking football.
In addition to my specialist couples and relationship training, I am a trained loss, grief, and bereavement counsellor. I work as part of the Volunteer Bereavement Service at Saint Francis Hospice.
I arrived at therapy five years ago after a thirty-eight year wide and varied corporate career that took me on a journey through banking, stock broking, travel, the airline industry, commercial and residential property.
