Heather Sykes Counselling
Experience empathetic, confidential counselling shaped around your individual needs. I offer a relationship grounded in acceptance of your whole self, creating a space where you can gradually recognise and name your experiences as they truly are. Together, we cultivate an environment in which you can come to know yourself more fully and begin to accept yourself with compassion.
Compassionate Support for Your Journey
Heather Sykes Counselling offers tailored person centred therapy for adults and young people. With a warm, professional approach, sessions support emotional wellbeing and encourage resilience in a safe, confidential environment.
BSc Psychology
Early years practioner and many years experience of working with Neurodiverse college students
Diploma HE in Humanistic Counselling
Experience of working in Education and Charity Sector
Further Diploma in Counselling Children and Young People
Trained to work creatively with your young person
How does counselling help?
We don’t fully understand why talking to someone helps, but there’s plenty of evidence that, as the saying goes, a problem shared is a problem halved. As a person‑centred counsellor I don’t offer a magic formula — instead, I’m willing to sit with you in the difficult feelings. I hold the belief that you’re doing the best you can, and that your feelings are real and deserving of attention. My role is to offer empathy by working hard to understand how you see yourself and the world around you, and to reflect that back so you can experience what it’s like to be truly understood.
Is Counselling right for me?
When something doesn’t feel right, it’s natural to want things to change. You might sense that life could be better, or perhaps you’ve tried to make shifts but still feel the same. Maybe your motivation is low, you’re feeling defeated, or you’ve reached a point where nothing seems to make a difference and you can’t see a way forward. If any of this resonates, counselling can offer a space to explore what’s happening and begin to move toward something different.
Flexible Delivery
Sessions available both online and in person to fit your preferences and lifestyle comfortably.
How is counselling different to talking to a friend or family?
Well, I suppose, the real difference is I'm trained to explore what you’re saying, how you look, the way your body is reacting to things that you describe and tentatively offering you these unspoken emotions to help you understand more deeply how you feel. It's not that it's one sided, you’re not under a microscope, I'm still a human being sitting with you in these experiences, but I don't need anything from you, and I won't be giving you any advice. I offer a welcoming, judgement-free environment where clients can explore their feelings securely and openly.
Get in touch
Telephone: 07356292205
E-mail: heathersykes19@gmail.com