About Me

My name is Gerry Dowds and I am a qualified Gestalt Counsellor MBACP. The Gestalt method of counselling considers your whole self and works with how your past experiences and thoughts of the future are impacting on you in the here and now.

I have a wide range of experience through training and studying for qualifications. These include:

  • DipHE Counselling-Humanistic Gestalt

  • MBACP

  • Creative Counselling

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Bereavement Support

  • Baby loss

  • Young persons

  • Relationships

Areas of Counselling I work in:

Affairs and betrayls

Anger management

Anxiety

Attachment disorder

Bereavement

Bullying

Career counselling

Carer support

Child counselling

Childhood bereavement

Depression

Emotional abuse

Family issues

Feeling sad

Generalised anxiety disorder

Health anxiety

Infertility

LGBTQ+ Counselling

Loneliness

Low self-confidence

Low self-esteem

Menopause

Mental health

Miscarriage

Panic attacks

Phobias

Postnatal depression

Pregnancy and birth

Redundancy

Relationship problems

Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

Self-harm

Separation and divorce

Sex problems

Social anxiety

Stress

Suicidal thoughts

Work-related stress

Young carers

As we know, everyone is different so I will adapt and shape our sessions in a way that works for you. We may find that by working creatively you will be able to express locked emotions to help to gain awareness and find a new perspective.