Chapter House
Private Counselling and Psychotherapy for Tynemouth, North Shields and Newcastle
Our Services
Explore our tailored services: expert counselling for adults, supportive therapy for children, parent support and specialised EMDR therapy for trauma recovery.
How Therapy Works
Therapy sessions are 50 minutes in length, typically held weekly or fortnightly. After contacting your chosen therapist, they will aim to respond within a day to arrange an initial consultation and explain the process.
Prices range from £45 to £60 per session, depending on the therapist.
Adult Therapy
At Chapter House, our therapists use a wide array of counselling techniques to offer a personalised approach, ensuring that your unique needs are met. We integrate both traditional and creative therapies to help you achieve well-being.
All our therapists are qualified to offer adult counselling and psychotherapy. Find a therapist and book your session today!
Person-centred therapy focuses on providing a supportive and non-judgmental environment where clients can explore their thoughts and feelings at their own pace.
Your therapist might help by offering empathy, active listening, and unconditional positive regard, allowing clients to find their own solutions and personal growth.
Sand tray therapy uses sand, water, and a variety of miniatures to create visual images that represent a person’s inner world. It may help the client become aware of unknown past or current challenges in life.
It can provide a safe opportunity to help a client move toward healing and the exploration of memories and experiences that may be too uncomfortable or difficult to talk about. It can complement traditional talking therapies and engage the mind-body connection to help a client face distress and trauma in a nonverbal manner.
Guided imagery activates a client's imagination to practice a
visualisation that either can address a specific psychological issue
or opens up wider exploration. Most guided imagery will use a
combination of breathwork, relaxation, and verbal guidance.
It can unearth previously buried emotions or memories. When
carried out in the safe secure controlled environment of a therapy
room, it can feel both powerful and transformative.
Creative techniques in therapy enable a client to express themselves in a variety of ways, often without using words, such as through painting, drawing, photography, collage, puppets, stories, poetry and so on. Every creative therapist has their own style.
Creative therapy will offer you a safe, non-judgmental space to help you explore what you’re feeling and how that is revealed in your creations. Through creative materials and activities, the therapist will support you to understand yourself better, help you to process feelings and make positive changes in your life.
Transactional analysis (TA) is a highly accessible theory of psychology. It aims to promote personal growth and change. The ultimate goal is to ensure clients regain absolute autonomy over their lives. Founded by Eric Berne in the late 1950s, TA therapy is based on the theory that each person has three ego-states: parent, adult and child.
Your therapist will use the Ego state model combined with other key transactional analysis concepts, to analyse how the client communicates and thinks. Many people find transactional analysis appealing as it promotes an equal relationship between client and therapist, in which the client is encouraged to focus on their commitment to change.
Clients usually enjoy learning about their personal life ‘scripts’ and ‘drivers’ for example. TA can be applied in a wide variety of settings outside of counselling, including organisational training and consultancy, parenting, education and coaching.
Attachment theory is the understanding of how we seek ‘proximity’, or closeness and intimacy, with people in our lives. This covers all relationships from family members, to friends, partners and work colleagues.
Our individual Attachment style is developed at a very early age as a result of the relationship with our primary care-givers. It continues to be fine-tuned throughout childhood and adolescence.
Your therapist will explore your Attachment style with you and how it impacts your life today.
Raising awareness of your attachment style will deepen your understanding of your relationship patterns and how you relate to others. It is possible to re-decide how you wish to be within your relationships as a result. This can take work and commitment and your therapist will support you as you make these changes.
Your therapist will support you in exploring how you can take care of your mental health on a day to day basis as well when life is more challenging.
Every client is different and therefore discussing what is appropriate to your life style and emotional make-up will help to identify techniques that you can lean on for the rest of your life.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a type of therapy that looks at a client’s
thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
The therapist will work with the client to identify their negative thinking patterns, especially the ones that restrict their lives. These thinking patterns can be challenged or alternative ways of looking at things can be suggested to help the client break free of whatever is holding them back and causing distress.
CBT focuses on equipping the client with the strategies to address current
problems in their life and relieve the symptoms they are struggling with. The
therapist may explore links to the client’s past and where these beliefs started.
Child Therapy
We provide a dedicated safe space for children and young people, offering tailored therapy with play and creative approaches. Our specialist child therapists, Sarah May, Rachel Hughes and Claire Limmer have extensive experience working with young people facing emotional, social, and mental health challenges. They utilise an integrative approach, drawing on a variety of therapeutic modalities and adjusting them to meet the developmental needs of each child.
We use creative interventions such as art, sand-tray, and storytelling to support emotional expression and healing.
Book a session with one of our child therapy specialists today!
Family Support
Here at Chapter House we offer:
- Consultative support to parents/carers, which is targeted, short-term, goal oriented and solution focused.
- Dyadic, attachment focused parent-child therapy. This involves parent(s)/carer(s) and child attending together after some initial sessions with parent(s)/carer(s).
- Adult therapy geared towards parents who would like to work on specific concerns related to parenting, relationships and family life.
EMDR Therapy
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a proven approach to process traumatic memories that feel "stuck" or continue to impact your daily life. EMDR helps you work through challenging emotions, bodily sensations, and beliefs tied to past trauma.
Our qualified EMDR practitioners, Emma Hunt and Claire Limmer, specialise in this transformative therapy, helping you heal from past events.
