Jo Cockwill

I'm a counsellor and certified Havening Techniques practitioner based in Cheltenham. Talking to someone can be an enormous relief, and exploring your past can help you find answers. When needed, Havening Techniques uses sensory stimuli (touch) to help let go of the upset attached to emotional memories and create a sense of safety and resilience. I am here to help you overcome the emotiopain of depression, anxiety, trauma, stress, grief, shame, guilt, anger, loss of confidence or direction. I've helped people experiencing loss, difficult relationships, breakups and divorces, childhood physical and mental abuse, bullying, and gaslighting.

Before starting in private practice I studied, trained and volunteered as a counsellor at the Gloucestershire Counselling Service (GCS) for 5 years My qualifications - 4 year Diploma in Psychodynamic Counselling (GCS, 2021) Certificate in Online and Telephone Counselling (The Counselling Tutor, 2023) Certified Havening Techniques Practitioner (Havening.com 2024) I am a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

I can help if you are facing anxiety, depression, trauma, physical/emotional abuse, bullying, break-up, relationship difficulties, loneliness or loss, lack of direction, or issues with anger, guilt or shame. I have worked with a diverse range of adult clients, and recognise the additional emotional pain that can be caused by being and feeling marginalised. Alongside counselling that focusses on working with what is consciously and unconsciously present in the mind, I offer Havening Techniques®️ to help clients become aware of and release the emotions present in their body. This is useful for processing all emotions but especially for trauma, when the mind is overwhelmed by physical reliving of the past.

Not everyone finds opening up during counselling easy. I offer a place to talk freely about your experiences, feelings, thoughts and fears, at a pace that feels safe for you. If you have struggled to feel heard and valued in the past then this can be a powerfully healing experience. Life is difficult, but sometimes we unconsciously limited by our beliefs about who we are in the world, and how it is safe to behave. These unconscious belief build up over our whole lives, from our very first vulnerable years and our first experiences of relationships and through to the present day. Maybe you hold these beliefs so strongly now that they feel like unchangeable facts. By offering you connections between your past experiences and current difficulties, and exploring other more empowering beliefs that could also be true, I hope to give you more choices about what you want to do in the present and who you want to become. Because we exist as a mind within a body, and a body within the mind, I also offer Havening Techniques that can help you self-soothe, develop a sense of physical safety, and increase your awareness of how emotions are affecting your body, and your body is holding emotions for your mind.