Counselling Northumberland & Newcastle
Therapy tailored to your individual needs
Hello. I’m sorry that you are in a place where you need to look for help. I know this can feel scary, embarrassing, or disorientating. People of all ages and at all stages of life need help at some point in their lives, you are not alone.
Maybe you have been doing your best to appear to others as though nothing is wrong, while inside you feel like you’ve walked off the map into a wilderness of confusing feelings, such as anxiety, depression, anger, shame, or guilt, and you can’t seem to find a way out.
Perhaps your inner wilderness been life-long, leaving you feeling like an ‘alien’ in the world without really knowing why, and full of questions about meaning and purpose, or maybe an experience of bereavement, relationship issues, burn out, loss, illness, discrimination, or abuse, has brought you to this place.
Therapy has shown that with the brokenness and challenges of life also comes the potential for insight, hope, and change. As a therapist, I believe that you have the ability to access these things, my role is to help you to do this.
The fact that you are looking for a therapist now suggests that you believe that healing and change are possible, and that it is time to address whatever is burdening you.
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”
Maya Angelou
ABOUT PETE ASKEW
Psychotherapeutic Counsellor
I am a Psychotherapeutic Counsellor, trained by the Northern Guild in Newcastle, and professionally registered as a therapist with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. I have over twenty years’ experience in the helping professions, including work within charitable, spiritual, and NHS contexts, and have journeyed with people from a wide range of backgrounds and life situations.
I believe that everyone has the potential for change, and using an Integrative Person Centred approach, I will draw on techniques from Transactional Analysis, Gestalt, and Existential therapies to help you with your problems. These include: talking therapy, guided imagery, dream work, empty chair work, and mindfulness and creative exercises.
Helping you to find insight and growth by providing a safe space and empowering therapeutic approach to enable you to trust your own inner wisdom for change.
Registered Member BACP, registration number 406312
Commitment to BACP's ethical guidelines
Commitment to BACP's requirements for clinical supervision
Commitment to my own growth through ongoing personal therapy
Current enhanced DBS
Ways To Access COUNSELLING
Face to face therapy in Morpeth and ponteland
Experience an authentic, empathetic and non-judgemental approach to therapy, in a safe and honest space. One on one therapy in my therapy rooms in Morpeth or Darras Hall, Ponteland.
online therapy via Zoom
Access the same safe, honest and insightful support, virtually. One on one Zoom sessions with me.