TalkingPoint Therapy

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Are emotional problems impacting on your life?

Do they prevent you from doing something you would like to do or just simply from being yourself? Perhaps you and your partner are experiencing difficulties that you just can’t resolve?

Our highly experienced counsellors and psychotherapists can help you overcome these problems. Using the most proven and trusted methods, TalkingPoint therapists and counsellors help clients bring about positive and lasting changes to their lives.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

CBT is a short term therapy that helps clients to understand their problems and to generate their own solutions.

Relationship Counselling

Relationship counselling helps restore the balance in our lives when relationships are suffering.

Therapist Supervision

As an ethical requirement for all psychotherapists and counsellors, we provide high-quality, effective collaborative supervision.

Single Issue Resolution

Single Issue Resolution is a specific programme built around one intensive psychotherapy session and delivered by a highly skilled and experienced psychotherapist.

A little bit about Talking Point Therapy

The TalkingPoint Therapy practice was established by Jackie Beattie to provide effective Counselling and Psychotherapy for a wide range of clients throughout the UK.

Jackie holds an MSc in Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy, a Diploma in Relationship Therapy from the Relate Institute and a Diploma in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). She is an Accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapists (BACP) and the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP).

She has extensive experience in providing psychotherapy and counselling to clients with their own individual needs through TalkingPoint Therapy, the NHS and through working with Relate.

As an accredited member of both the BACP and the BABCP, clients are assured of a strict ethical code of conduct. TalkingPoint Therapy’s approach is very much one of recognising individuality, structuring therapy and counselling around the client’s personality and specific needs, in a caring and safe environment.

We can provide therapy rooms that have disabled access and are located close to public transport networks.

Client comments

"I am happy and healthy thanks to the service I received. I always felt safe and secure in the sessions" "Some of the information was obvious but when you are not thinking straight it needs pointing out" "The service I received was tailored well to my individual needs rather than just a set course" "Jackie is absolutely lovely. Could not have found a better person to help me with CBT"

Locations

TalkingPoint Therapy offers Relationship Counselling, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Therapist Supervision to clients in and around: Ormskirk, Liverpool, Southport, Preston, Skelmersdale, Wigan, Manchester, Bolton, Blackpool, Lancaster, Kendal and throughtout Lancashire, Merseyside, Cumbria and Greater Manchester.

Our highly qualified cognitive behavioural therapists use only the most proven methods through face-to-face, telephone and Internet (Skype) consultations.

*Testimonials: All of the testimonials on our web site are genuine and can be proven to be so. However, due to the nature of our business we cannot publish the names of our references on-line. Please contact us for further information.

COVID 19 has given us unprecedented times where for many, stress levels are at an all time high. We may be stressed about the fragility of our health and that of our loved ones, work or finances. TalkingPoint Therapy provides client specific Psychotherapy as one off appointments or longer term work.

Codependent Relationships

So many people live in codependent relationships.

Being afraid of being abandoned so putting up with unhealthy relationships
Being the go to person for everybody else’s problems
Feeling selfish for not meeting the needs of others
Put yourself down in order to lift others up
Having self limiting or self sabotaging beliefs

Remember you are a human being not a human doing.

Today’s world needs compassionate, kind and empathic people however you need to receive it back in return. This concept is often difficult for people who are codependents because they are often in one sided relationships. This causes 2 problems

You are separated from your true authentic self
You are depriving the people you are sheltering the lessons they need to grow and learn from

You can only give so much before you start to suffer yourself and the need to be needed becomes embedded with the fear of being abandoned.

Steps to change

Recognise what codependency look like in your life
Work out where this has come from
Set boundaries for yourself
Resist the urge to fix or save
Prioritise your own growth

The most common number of sessions that clients attend worldwide is just 1! 70% – 80% said that one session was enough given their current situation. As we come out of this pandemic TalkingPoint Therapy is looking to move to a more flexible approach and introducing “One at a Time Therapy” to work alongside longer term Psychotherapy. For more information about “One at a Time Therapy” contact us via our website contact page.

As we approach another step towards the easing of lockdown, I am working with clients on developing self compassion. By developing self compassion towards ourselves we can improve our mental health wellbeing. When you find yourself being critical of yourself try asking how a close friend or family member would say it to you. Reframe self criticism as self compassion and see how it changes your mental health wellbeing.

As we today start the roadmap to ending lockdown I will be working this week with clients on taking it one step at a time, and that if you move your body forward your mind will follow.