An Interview with…

The Therapy Quarters are really pleased to introduce you to two new members of our team, Debbi and Rachel, who will be working with children and young people needing support with issues such as anxiety, depression, identity, neurodivergence, and trauma. We’ve taken this opportunity to ask them a few questions so you can get to know them. If there is anything else you would like to ask, then please feel free to email Jaye: referrals@thetherapyquarters.co.uk and she’ll happily pose them and post an updated blog post. We hope that this helps you to feel more connected to Debbi and Rachel and ease any potential anxieties you, or your children have, in accessing support. What made you decide to become a therapist?  Debbi - I've been involved in helping people through nursing over the past 23 years. This has been in learning disability and adult mental health services. I was drawn to specialise as a psychological therapist because of wanting to [...]

Humans are naturally inquisitive, so being in therapy can often throw up some anxiety about our therapist; who really are they anyway? How do they cope when things get tough? What brought them to this point in their life? The therapeutic relationship is one like no other. One where the focus is on us, the client. We explore ourselves, how we connect with others and the world around us, we look at our past and our hopes for the future and often, our inquiries of our therapist go unanswered in favour of why it’s important for us to ask the question. Here we will introduce you to some of our team so you can get to know a little more about them without it impacting your sessions where their focus is, rightly, on you. We asked our therapists 10 questions and will publish their answers in a series of blog posts. So, grab a cuppa (and a biscuit or two) [...]

Humans are naturally inquisitive so being in therapy can often throw up some anxiety about our therapist; who really are they anyway? How do they cope when things get tough? What brought them to this point in their life? The therapeutic relationship is one like no other. One where the focus is on us, the client. We explore ourselves, how we connect with others and the world around us, we look at our past and our hopes for the future and often our inquiries of our therapist go unanswered in favour of why it’s important for us to ask the question. Here we will introduce you to some of our team so you can get to know a little more about them without it impacting your sessions where their focus is, rightly, on you. We asked our therapists 10 questions and we will publish their answers in a series of blog posts. So, grab a cuppa (and a biscuit [...]