Jan 18, 2019
Dilnia Horton
Jan 18, 2019
I experienced feeling alone and couldn't find the right people to make connections. Through studying counselling, I started to build self-confidence, and feeling better understood made me feel more myself. I wanted to work with people and make life easier for those in vulnerable situations.
I trained in London and obtained my qualification in Counselling and Psychotherapy Academy Training.
I am an integrative counsellor. I use psychodynamic principles, incorporating this with person-centred and cognitive behavioural therapy and many other creative therapies in my work. I am more focused on childhood experiences and how these can lead to present issues. I've also done quite a few trauma CPD trainings, and can work with traumatic experience. I did another diploma on CBT and use my skills for anxiety and low self-confidence, and minor depression.
I have experience in counselling within health services and other primary care settings. I work with adults and couples on a 1:1 basis, offering short-term or longer, open-ended support. These are face-to-face sessions and occasionally Skype sessions.
I like providing a confidential, safe, non-judgmental space to explore what may be contributing to the client's current difficulties, providing him/her with an opportunity to gain another perspective and explore other options and ways of managing their issues.
It is difficult when clients don't commit to their appointment, and don't respond to emails after having a first session and disappear without explaining their reason. Clients can sometimes forget to pay and suddenly not come back to their next session.
I've been with welldoing.org about a year.
I sometimes suggest mindfulness apps like Headspace.
Mindfulness meditation, exercise, getting together with my family.
I see clients in two different locations, in SE16 and in Clapham. A lot of my clients have previously been through the NHS for free short-term counselling.
In Clapham, I mainly have evening clients who are available after work, and can afford private fee as well.
Both my therapy rooms are comfortably furnished with chairs, tables and lamps.
It is safe environment and non-judgmental place to seek support.
I have learnt to understand my coping mechanisms, empower my self-confidence, and my relationships with close family have improved dramatically.
Dilnia Horton