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Welcome to Oyster Counselling & Life Coaching. We are Doctors of Clinical Psychology specialising in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for both adults and children experiencing a range of problems including, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, bereavement, eating disorders (including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa), obsessive compulsive disorder and others distressing emotional problems. We offer Face to Face, Telephone, Video and Online Counselling for individuals and couples.
Our consulting rooms are based in Richmond, approximately 10-15 minutes walking distance from Richmond train station and 5 minutes from St Margarets train station. Richmond Station is served by London Underground, London Overground and British Rail to Waterloo (Central London) as there is a fast train taking 15 minutes. Richmond is easily reached from East Sheen, Barnes, Twickenham, Kingston, Chiswick and Hammersmith.
About Us
All members of the Oyster Counselling Service are Doctors of Clinical Psychology and all hold a practicing certificate with The British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies and The British Psychological Society. Each has spent a minimum of nine years training to enable people to overcome their emotional difficulties and have been qualified practitioners for at least seven years. In addition to practicing privately, all hold senior positions in the NHS.
Dr Corstorphine (Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Service Coordinator) has published widely in the field of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and speaks regularly at both national and international conferences. She is also co-author of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Patients with Eating Disorders: A Comprehensive Treatment Guide. Cambridge University Press (2007).
About the website
This website will give you some introductory information about counselling; who it is for, what it involves and if it will work , so that you can make an informed decision about whether such an approach to your problems would be helpful.
It also gives a brief outline of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, one of the most effective types of counselling for emotional distress and related problems that is currently available, along with suggestions for additional reading and self help literature.
