Our Story – the First 12 Years

  Towards the Centre Therapy in Manchester provides short- and long-term counselling and psychotherapy for adults I established Therapy in Manchester in 2011 For 8 years I worked from the heart of Chorlton, south Manchester, growing and developing this practice In 2019 I relocated to the Royal Exchange building in Manchester’s city centre – also […]

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Helping to keep you Covid-19 safe

The following guidance was written June 2020 and updated October 2022 We’ve made a number of changes within the building to help keep you Covid-19 safe. Arriving at the building • when entering the building please use the hand sanitiser station Arriving at my rooms • appointments are held with us seated over two metres […]

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Therapy & Phobias

  A phobia transforms anxiety into fear by attaching it to a very specific object or situation. Almost any object or situation can be used to form a phobia – spiders, snowman, buttons, open spaces, enclosed spaces… By transforming anxiety into a concrete fear of a tangible, nameable object that can be avoided, a phobia […]

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Spotlight on Identity

Anthony Easthope asks, ‘How is it that within five or six years the newly arrived [baby] you bring home with you from the hospital has become a person, who speaks your language, shares your assumptions, can go off to school and answer its own name when the teacher calls it out?’ Easthope is drawing attention […]

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