Lifestyle and Life History Consulting and Coaching

Lifestyle and Life History Consulting and Coaching

For assessment, coaching-counselling and written help with your emotional, behavioural and relationship problems…

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Updated on 23rd October 2026

Hello and welcome to the website of Jim Byrne, Lifestyle Self-Management Consultant, and Life History Explorer.

Specialist in Trauma Recovery through Narrative Reframing and Whole Body Reprocessing

Einstein on insanityAccording to Albert Einstein, the definition of insanity is to continue to do what you have always done, and to expect better or different outcomes.

If you want a better life, you will have to take better actions!

I can help you with that challenge!

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To read what previous clients have said about working with me – and the changes they achieved – please visit my Unsolicited Counselling Client Testimonials page.

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Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling, Hebden BridgeI specialise in helping individuals who are so badly affected by early childhood trauma, or later challenges, that the quality of their life is seriously compromised. Individuals who know they are going to have to invest a significant amount of time, energy, mental activity, and money, in order to clean up their past history of compromised functioning in terms of thinking, feeling and/or relating to others.

This is a psychological coaching process, with biological elements; not primarily counselling as we understand it. (The biological elements do not involve any form of touch between me and my clients!)

I begin from the position that such individuals do not have a developed narrative of who they are and how they got to where they are in their lives. So, therefore we need to begin by using questionnaires to explore some of the key factors which my experience taught me are the most salient in such cases.

Questionnaires for helping people with couple relationship problemsOnce I have processed your questionnaires, I will set up a meeting to discuss what I learned from your questionnaires. And during that consultation I will do some informal assessment, and offer some valuable insights.

After our meeting, I will spend about three hours, reflecting upon, and writing about, what I have learned about the roots of your current problems. This will result in a written report, with insights and recommended actions to take to move your life forward. Then, I will send two or three follow-up psycho-educational documents, at intervals of at least four weeks, so as not to overload you. Those follow-up documents will contain key aspects of the immediate solutions to the problems we discussed.

High quality counselliong and therapy costs more than poor quality counselling and therapyFor this service, I charge five hours of professional labour at £90.00 GBP per hour, which must be paid before I send the questionnaires.

To begin the enrolment process, please send me an email outlining:

  1. Your major difficulty;
  2. Your main goal in relation to that difficulty;
  3. Your commitment to studying my report and follow-up documents, and implementing my recommendations diligently for a significant period of time.

If you live too far from my home base, we can meet over Microsoft Teams, using Internet video call.

But if you live near Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, we can meet face to face at my home base.

Email me today, at Dr Jim’ s Proton Mail…

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To read what previous clients have said about working with me – and the changes they achieved – please visit my Unsolicited Counselling Client Testimonials page.

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Who am I?

My name is Jim Byrne, and I am a recovered victim of childhood development trauma, which seriously impaired my cognitive, emotive and social relationship skills development, well into my thirties!

Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling, Hebden Bridge and Worldwide; in his home office...
Dr Jim Byrne, in the prime of life, on 2nd July 2025; at home in his office…

I have a Professional Doctorate in Counselling from the University of Manchester – despite leaving school at age 14 with a Primary Cert.

I have a master’s degree in education (MA.Ed)  from the Open University UK – despite not commencing college until I was 27 years old.

I have a Diploma in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy, with an A-star Distinction – despite not beginning to study psychology until I was about 34 years old.

And I have more than 28 years’ experience of helping more than 1400 individuals with all kinds of problems of daily living: emotional, behavioural and relational.

ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy, Hebden Bridge and WorldwideMy consultancy approach is based on philosophy, psychology, the biology of stress and trauma, neuroscience, affect regulation theory, dialectical behaviour therapy, and critical thinking skills.

If you need my help, are willing to invest a considerable amount of time, energy and money into cleaning up your past life, and you know you can learn effectively from reading reports and other technical documents, then I can help you.

Contact me today, at Dr Jim’ s Proton Mail…

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To read what previous clients have said about working with me – and the changes they achieved – please visit my Unsolicited Counselling Client Testimonials page.

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