CS Counselling
COUNSELLING for adult individuals & couples IN Plymouth, South Devon & online
Welcome
I help adult individuals and couples resolve and recover from issues that have been causing conflict or distress.
Plymouth, South Devon and online.
BACP Accredited Counsellor
My name is Chris Sergeant and I am an independent qualified counsellor / psychotherapist in private practice. I am registered and accredited by the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP), and hold a Diploma in Integrative Counselling from LIFE-FORCE, Colchester.
I am additionally qualified to offer tailored hypnotherapy* where such an approach is considered appropriate.
(*Trained in London with Karen Bartle and Paul Peace, Academy of Advanced Changework)
Chris Sergeant Reg.MBACP (Accred) BSc MSc Dip.Integrative Counselling Dip.H CPD Cert.Couple Counselling Advanced Certificate in Clinical Supervision
Prior to becoming a full time counsellor I was a Principal Clinical Biochemist, working in the NHS for over 25 years.
After more than ten years experience counselling in Ilford, I relocated to Plymouth in 2021 and now offer face to face sessions from a set of rooms in Peverell.
I also offer online sessions via zoom or WhatsApp
A human touch....
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and apps can be great tools for helping improve your mental health but sometimes you can benefit more from having real person to person interaction.
In your sessions I will take the time to develop a deeper real understanding of who, and how, you are. To really be alongside with you as you resolve whatever difficulties you have been experiencing.
To truly empathise with your feelings as well as hearing your thoughts. To help you reach your desired outcome(s) and empower your independent self to be how you really want to be.
Sometimes things are better for not being artificial.
Read about the benefits of a human therapist
Integrative Approach
I offer a humanistic person centred core approach integrated with other modalities that may include:
- Behavioural (e.g. CBT) - raising awareness of how small changes in thoughts may produce powerful changes in your well being.
- Psychodynamic - exploring unconscious elements that may have possibly evolved from childhood experience.
- Gestalt - appropriately challenging and promoting self-development in the “here
and now”.
- Relaxation / mindful meditation techniques / hypnotherapy - refreshing and strengthening your inner resources and reinforcing desired change.
Couples Counselling
If creating the relationship you want been side-tracked by external influences, and / or by individually held worries? Being able to find a calm neutral space, within which both of you may begin to feel listening to the other is possible, can help greatly.
Although the focus of the work will be on the relationship, coming here as a couple does not mean your individual needs will be forgotten.
Taking time here will offer the opportunity for you both to develop listening skills such that each partner’s individual needs may be heard and understood by the other.
A positive decision: In the past some people viewed relationship counselling as the “last resort”. Such a view is changing as more and more people come to realise investing time in renewing, refreshing and revealing the healthy qualities in a relationship now can ensure unhealthy aspects do not mount up to create a bigger and more difficult (avoidable!) problem later.
Acceptable outcome: Being able to openly talk with each other in a safe and supportive environment offers an opportunity to adjust behaviour to that which is acceptable to you both. To establish new ways of relating, letting go of older ways that may no longer work.
“I would like to thank you, of all the therapists I have had I don’t think I have
progressed as much as I have with you”
“Just being able to tell someone how I am feeling brought such release”
“I would not have been able to speak up for myself when I started”
“I am able to talk with her now without fear of expressing myself, and she with me”
“I have learnt so much about myself and feel much more able to relax and not be wound up when I am with others”
“I had not looked at things the way I am now, not even when I had years of therapy before. How I am seeing things now is so true”
“You talk so calmly; now I find myself becoming calmer too.”
“It has been brilliant, I would recommend it to anyone”
“Its the first time I have been heard”
“I like the different and fresh approach you offered”
“The homework you set us both has really helped, thank you”
“Things are really great between us now”
“I have surprised myself, I didn’t think I would come this far when I started”
“I am growing stronger all the time”
“You have really opened my eyes, I can choose how I want to be”
“It was challenging but there is something about you that meant it felt safe”
“I am starting to accept good things about myself and being far less self-critical”
“I realise and believe how important it really is to truly look after myself”
My location
I am based in Plymouth but see people from South Devon and the surrounding areas. I also offer online sessions across the UK via Zoom or WhatsApp.
Contact me to find out more, ask questions or book a first full session.
Fees & availability
Individuals: £45 per 50 minute session
Couples: £60 per hour session
Payment can be made in cash, via bank transfer, debit or credit card.
I offer face to face or online appointments:
Mondays: 7pm to 9pm
Tuesday to Friday: 8:30am to 2:30pm and 6pm to 9pm
Get in touch
Whether there is a specific issue you would like support with or just a general feeling of something not quite right, please feel free to contact me via the enquiry form to arrange an initial assessment appointment or to ask questions about the counselling process.
You can also call me on 07535261757 if you would prefer to leave a message or speak to me first. I am happy to discuss any queries or questions you may have prior to arranging an initial appointment.
Enquires are usually answered within 24 hours, and all contact is strictly confidential and uses secure phone and email services.