Counselling & Psychotherapy
Welcome. I’m Gareth and I offer online & in-person counselling, providing a safe, comforting and nurturing space to explore your thoughts, feelings and emotions.
Integrative Therapy
Whether online or in person counselling, as an experienced integrative counsellor, I believe in the power of blending various therapeutic approaches to meet the unique needs of each individual I work with.
“With a genuine warmth, empathy and soothing presence, I am here to guide you on your journey towards healing and personal growth.“
Gareth Taylor
Gareth Taylor
Dip Couns MNCPS (Acc.)
I’m a qualified and experienced integrative counsellor and psychotherapist and I’m delighted you are here. My practice is located in Tenterden, Kent offering online and in person counselling.
I’m Here to Help
Issues I Commonly Work With
Navigating change with warmth and understanding
Here are some examples of various issues I can help with.
Managing Anxiety
Anxiety can feel overwhelming, like a constant sense of fear or worry that lingers in your mind and body. It can show up in different ways—racing thoughts, restlessness, or even physical symptoms like tension or a racing heart. Whether anxiety is tied to specific events or is a more general feeling, it affects how you experience the world around you.
Here’s how an integrative approach can help you manage and overcome anxiety:
1. Understanding the Root Cause
Anxiety often has deeper roots. In integrative counselling, we’ll work together to explore the underlying causes of your anxiety—whether it stems from past experiences, current pressures, or future fears. Understanding where your anxiety comes from is the first step in breaking its grip.
"Awareness brings light to the shadows of anxiety."
2. Finding Calm in the Present
Anxiety thrives on uncertainty and fear. In our sessions, we’ll create a safe space to help you manage your anxious thoughts and feelings. Through a tailored approach, we’ll explore coping techniques that empower you to calm your mind, so you can respond to life’s challenges with more clarity and balance.
"Peace begins when you learn to be present, even in the face of uncertainty."
3. Building Confidence for the Future
Anxiety can make the future feel daunting. Together, we’ll create a plan to help you navigate your fears and build confidence in your ability to handle whatever lies ahead. Integrative counselling helps you shape a future where anxiety no longer holds you back, allowing you to move forward with greater ease and strength.
Ask yourself:
"How would my life change if I could manage my anxiety with confidence?"
Integrative counselling offers a comprehensive approach to understanding, managing, and overcoming anxiety. By exploring your past, addressing the present, and preparing for the future, I’ll guide you toward a life where anxiety no longer defines your experiences.
Depression
Trauma-related issues (e.g. PTSD)
Understanding Relationships
Relationships are central to our lives, but they can also bring complex emotions, misunderstandings, and challenges. Whether you're dealing with conflict, communication issues, or the emotional toll of a breakup, relationship struggles can affect your wellbeing and happiness. These difficulties might leave you feeling disconnected or uncertain about the future.
Here’s how an integrative approach can help you navigate and heal relationship challenges:
1. Exploring the Past
Past experiences often shape how we engage in relationships. In integrative counselling, we’ll look at your past to understand patterns that might be affecting your current relationships. Whether it's unresolved wounds or unhelpful habits, understanding these patterns is the first step toward creating healthier connections.
"To heal your relationships, you must first understand yourself."
2. Improving Communication in the Present
Strong relationships require open, honest communication. Our sessions will provide a safe space to explore your current relationship dynamics and find better ways to express your feelings and needs. Through a tailored approach, we’ll develop practical tools to improve your interactions and bring clarity and peace into your relationships.
"Real connection comes when we learn to listen, not just speak."
3. Building a Better Future
Relationship challenges can make the future feel uncertain, but they also offer opportunities for growth. Through integrative counselling, we’ll work together to help you build stronger, healthier relationships—whether it’s repairing a current connection or preparing for future ones. With the right support, you can move forward with greater confidence and a deeper sense of fulfillment.
Ask yourself:
"What would my relationships look like if I could communicate more clearly and connect more deeply?"
Integrative counselling offers a personalized approach to navigating relationship challenges. By understanding your past, enhancing communication in the present, and building confidence for the future, I’ll help you create stronger, more fulfilling relationships in every area of your life.
Growing Self-Esteem and Confidence
Low self-esteem and a lack of confidence can hold you back from living fully. Whether it stems from past criticism, self-doubt, or comparing yourself to others, these feelings can impact every area of your life—your relationships, career, and overall sense of happiness. But with the right support, you can learn to value yourself and build the confidence to thrive.
Here’s how an integrative approach can help you improve self-esteem and boost confidence:
1. Uncovering the Roots of Self-Doubt
Low self-esteem often comes from past experiences that have shaped how you see yourself. In integrative counselling, we’ll explore where your self-doubt began, helping you understand the events or messages that may have led you to question your worth. This awareness is the first step to breaking free from self-limiting beliefs.
"To rebuild confidence, you must first understand what tore it down."
2. Reframing Your Self-Perception
Changing how you see yourself starts in the present. Our sessions will provide a safe space to explore your strengths and challenge negative self-talk. Through a tailored approach, we’ll work on shifting your mindset, helping you see your true worth and build a healthier relationship with yourself.
"Confidence grows when you start believing in the person you’re becoming."
3. Empowering Your Future
With stronger self-esteem, you’ll feel empowered to take on new challenges and opportunities. Together, we’ll create a plan to help you build the confidence to go after your goals, trust in your abilities, and shape a future where you feel truly capable and worthy of success.
Ask yourself:
"How would my life change if I truly believed in myself?"
Integrative counselling offers a personalized path to improving self-esteem and confidence. By exploring your past, reshaping how you see yourself in the present, and empowering you for the future, I’ll support you in building a life filled with self-assurance and a sense of true inner worth.
Bereavement
Managing Stress
Stress can feel overwhelming, like you're constantly juggling too many things at once. Whether it’s caused by work, relationships, or the pressure of daily life, stress affects your mind, body, and overall sense of wellbeing. It can leave you feeling tense, drained, and disconnected from what truly matters. But with the right support, you can learn to manage stress and regain control.
Here’s how an integrative approach can help you manage and reduce stress:
1. Identifying the Sources of Your Stress
Stress often builds up from different areas of life. In integrative counselling, we’ll work together to uncover the root causes of your stress, whether they’re related to work pressures, personal relationships, or internal expectations. Understanding where your stress comes from is the first step in reducing its impact.
"You can’t manage what you don’t understand—identify your stress to take control of it."
2. Finding Balance in the Present
Stress pulls you out of balance and affects your ability to be present. Our sessions will create a space for you to express your worries and tensions, and through a tailored approach, we’ll develop effective stress management techniques. These tools will help you stay grounded and calm, even in the face of life’s demands.
"Balance is not something you find; it’s something you create by managing your mind."
3. Building Resilience for the Future
Managing stress is about more than short-term relief—it’s about building long-term resilience. Together, we’ll work on strategies that help you respond to future challenges with confidence and calm. You’ll develop a greater sense of control, enabling you to handle whatever life throws your way, without feeling overwhelmed.
Ask yourself:
"What would my life look like if I could handle stress with greater ease and clarity?"
Integrative counselling offers a personalised approach to managing stress. By identifying your stressors, finding balance in the present, and building resilience for the future, I’ll help you regain control and create a life where stress no longer takes over.
Life transitions
Managing Anxiety
Anxiety can feel overwhelming, like a constant sense of fear or worry that lingers in your mind and body. It can show up in different ways—racing thoughts, restlessness, or even physical symptoms like tension or a racing heart. Whether anxiety is tied to specific events or is a more general feeling, it affects how you experience the world around you.
Here’s how an integrative approach can help you manage and overcome anxiety:
1. Understanding the Root Cause
Anxiety often has deeper roots. In integrative counselling, we’ll work together to explore the underlying causes of your anxiety—whether it stems from past experiences, current pressures, or future fears. Understanding where your anxiety comes from is the first step in breaking its grip.
"Awareness brings light to the shadows of anxiety."
2. Finding Calm in the Present
Anxiety thrives on uncertainty and fear. In our sessions, we’ll create a safe space to help you manage your anxious thoughts and feelings. Through a tailored approach, we’ll explore coping techniques that empower you to calm your mind, so you can respond to life’s challenges with more clarity and balance.
"Peace begins when you learn to be present, even in the face of uncertainty."
3. Building Confidence for the Future
Anxiety can make the future feel daunting. Together, we’ll create a plan to help you navigate your fears and build confidence in your ability to handle whatever lies ahead. Integrative counselling helps you shape a future where anxiety no longer holds you back, allowing you to move forward with greater ease and strength.
Ask yourself:
"How would my life change if I could manage my anxiety with confidence?"
Integrative counselling offers a comprehensive approach to understanding, managing, and overcoming anxiety. By exploring your past, addressing the present, and preparing for the future, I’ll guide you toward a life where anxiety no longer defines your experiences.
Depression
Trauma-related issues (e.g. PTSD)
Relationships
Relationships are connections between people, whether they're family, friends, or partners. Good relationships make us feel loved, supported, and understood, but they can also bring challenges and conflicts.
As an integrative counsellor, my approach combines different techniques to help improve and strengthen your relationships. Here's how my counselling can help:
- Effective Communication. I'll help you learn how to communicate more clearly and openly. This can reduce misunderstandings and build stronger connections with others.
- Conflict Resolution. Together, we'll explore ways to resolve conflicts and disagreements in a healthy manner. This can help you find common ground and improve your relationship dynamics.
- Understanding Patterns:. We’ll identify any negative patterns or behaviours that might be affecting your relationships. Understanding these can help you make positive changes.
- Building Trust. Trust is crucial in any relationship. I'll guide you in rebuilding trust if it's been damaged and in strengthening trust in ongoing relationships.
- Enhancing Empathy. Learning to see things from another person's perspective can improve understanding and connection. I'll help you develop greater empathy and emotional intelligence.
- Personal Growth. Improving your relationship with yourself is key to better relationships with others. We'll work on self-awareness and self-esteem, which can positively impact all your interactions.
My goal is to support you in creating healthier, more fulfilling relationships by improving communication, resolving conflicts, and fostering personal growth.
Self-esteem and self-confidence issues
Low self-esteem can impact various aspects of life, affecting self-worth, decision-making, and relationships.
With warm support and gentle guidance, we explore your negative self beliefs, nurturing self-compassion and cultivating a more positive and confident self-image.
Bereavement
Stress management
Excessive stress can impact physical and mental well-being.
Together we can develop effective stress management techniques, explore and modify stress-inducing thought patterns, and establish healthy boundaries and self-care practices to promote your wellbeing.
Life transitions
Managing Anxiety
Anxiety can feel overwhelming, like a constant sense of fear or worry that lingers in your mind and body. It can show up in different ways—racing thoughts, restlessness, or even physical symptoms like tension or a racing heart. Whether anxiety is tied to specific events or is a more general feeling, it affects how you experience the world around you.
Here’s how an integrative approach can help you manage and overcome anxiety:
1. Understanding the Root Cause
Anxiety often has deeper roots. In integrative counselling, we’ll work together to explore the underlying causes of your anxiety—whether it stems from past experiences, current pressures, or future fears. Understanding where your anxiety comes from is the first step in breaking its grip.
"Awareness brings light to the shadows of anxiety."
2. Finding Calm in the Present
Anxiety thrives on uncertainty and fear. In our sessions, we’ll create a safe space to help you manage your anxious thoughts and feelings. Through a tailored approach, we’ll explore coping techniques that empower you to calm your mind, so you can respond to life’s challenges with more clarity and balance.
"Peace begins when you learn to be present, even in the face of uncertainty."
3. Building Confidence for the Future
Anxiety can make the future feel daunting. Together, we’ll create a plan to help you navigate your fears and build confidence in your ability to handle whatever lies ahead. Integrative counselling helps you shape a future where anxiety no longer holds you back, allowing you to move forward with greater ease and strength.
Ask yourself:
"How would my life change if I could manage my anxiety with confidence?"
Integrative counselling offers a comprehensive approach to understanding, managing, and overcoming anxiety. By exploring your past, addressing the present, and preparing for the future, I’ll guide you toward a life where anxiety no longer defines your experiences.
Depression
Trauma-related issues (e.g. PTSD)
Relationships
Relationships are connections between people, whether they're family, friends, or partners. Good relationships make us feel loved, supported, and understood, but they can also bring challenges and conflicts.
As an integrative counsellor, my approach combines different techniques to help improve and strengthen your relationships. Here's how my counselling can help:
- Effective Communication. I'll help you learn how to communicate more clearly and openly. This can reduce misunderstandings and build stronger connections with others.
- Conflict Resolution. Together, we'll explore ways to resolve conflicts and disagreements in a healthy manner. This can help you find common ground and improve your relationship dynamics.
- Understanding Patterns:. We’ll identify any negative patterns or behaviours that might be affecting your relationships. Understanding these can help you make positive changes.
- Building Trust. Trust is crucial in any relationship. I'll guide you in rebuilding trust if it's been damaged and in strengthening trust in ongoing relationships.
- Enhancing Empathy. Learning to see things from another person's perspective can improve understanding and connection. I'll help you develop greater empathy and emotional intelligence.
- Personal Growth. Improving your relationship with yourself is key to better relationships with others. We'll work on self-awareness and self-esteem, which can positively impact all your interactions.
My goal is to support you in creating healthier, more fulfilling relationships by improving communication, resolving conflicts, and fostering personal growth.
Self-esteem and self-confidence issues
Low self-esteem can impact various aspects of life, affecting self-worth, decision-making, and relationships.
With warm support and gentle guidance, we explore your negative self beliefs, nurturing self-compassion and cultivating a more positive and confident self-image.
Bereavemnt
Stress management
Excessive stress can impact physical and mental well-being.
Together we can develop effective stress management techniques, explore and modify stress-inducing thought patterns, and establish healthy boundaries and self-care practices to promote your wellbeing.
Life transitions
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Coping With Grief and Loss
Grief and loss can touch every part of our lives. Whether it's the loss of a loved one, the end of a relationship, or even a significant life change, these experiences leave a lasting impact. Grief isn't just an emotional response; it can affect your mind, body, and spirit. You may feel overwhelmed, lost, or uncertain about how to move forward.
Here’s how an integrative approach can help you heal through grief and loss:
1. Acknowledging Your Loss
Grieving is a personal journey. In integrative counselling, we take the time to explore your feelings, honour your loss, and understand how it’s impacting you today. Recognising and accepting your grief is the first step toward healing.
"Healing begins when we allow ourselves to feel the weight of what we’ve lost."
2. Finding Peace in the Present
Loss can leave us feeling stuck. Our sessions focus on creating a safe space where you can process your emotions, and we work together to help you navigate the present moment with more balance and understanding. This tailored approach meets you where you are and helps you find the peace you need to move forward.
"You can’t change what’s behind you, but you can choose how you move through it."
3. Rebuilding for the Future
Though the future might feel uncertain after loss, it holds new possibilities. Through integrative counselling, we’ll explore your hopes, address fears, and create a path that empowers you to rebuild your life at your own pace. You don’t have to navigate grief alone; together, we’ll shape a future where healing and hope are possible.
Ask yourself:
"How will healing my grief help me live a fuller, more meaningful life?"
Integrative counselling offers compassionate, personalized support through grief, helping you understand your loss, find clarity in the present, and build a future with renewed strength and purpose.
My Approach & Philosophy
Healing and growth are at the heart of what I do.
I provide therapy sessions in various formats to accommodate your needs. Whether you prefer in person sessions in Tenterden, Kent, online sessions, or telephone sessions, I offer flexibility.
You’re in safe hands.
During our sessions, you can expect to be heard, understood, and supported without judgment. I strongly believe in the power of empathy and its profound impact on the therapeutic process. By fostering a compassionate and non-judgmental environment, my aim is to help you gain insight, clarity, and a deeper understanding of yourself.
As an integrative counsellor, I adeptly blend a range of approaches and techniques to tailor our sessions to your specific needs. To learn more about the modalities I offer, please explore further on this website.
Furthermore, I am a registered member of The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS), and I adhere to their Code of Ethical Practice.
For additional information on this, please
visit nationalcounsellingsociety.org.
Get In Touch
Call
07957 346583
info@garethtaylorcounselling.com
Hours
Mon - Fri: 9am - 7pm