For assessment, counselling and written help with your emotional, behavioural and relationship problems…
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Counselling Services, Hebden Bridge, with Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling
Hello, and welcome to ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy Services
About You and your Counselling Needs
You may be feeling unhappy, sad, angry or anxious. These feelings may be triggered in your closest relationship(s); or in work situations; or anywhere else in your life.
Perhaps you find it hard to manage your feelings in close relationships. Or you do not know how to respond to the problems that arise from your partner’s words or actions.
Or perhaps you are aware that your early childhood experiences left some gaps in your emotional, behaviour and relationship knowledge and skills.
If you have a major problem – of unhappiness or incompleteness – I can help you to track down the source of your problems; to recognize the solutions; and to implement those solutions for optimal success, at home and in work or business contexts.
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About Me and my counselling expertise
My name is Jim Byrne. I have a doctoral degree in counselling, and almost thirty years’ experience of helping hundreds of individuals, from all over the world, to resolve their most difficult problems. I am a Fellow Member of the International Society of Psychotherapy and Counselling (FISPC).
More than half of my clients up to this point have had couple and relationship problems; the rest struggled with anger, anxiety, sadness/grief/depression; low confidence or self-esteem; or difficulty establishing good habits, or too much ease with establishing, and getting stuck with, bad habits!
I have helped them to solve those problems, and many of them have sent me Unsolicited Testimonials, here.***
Unsolicited Counselling Client Testimonial
“Working with you, Jim, has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Through our counselling sessions and the thoughtful written reports, and guidance documents, that you sent after each meeting, I gained a deeper understanding of myself and was able to move forward with greater honesty, presence and confidence. The timing and insight of the support you provided often felt exactly right, helping me to reconnect with myself and step more fully into my life. I feel that I have got my life back, and that I have got myself back.”
E.C. Gloucester, UK. (Twenty-six sessions of personalised counselling, for childhood developmental trauma – which was disrupting EC’s adult relationships – beginning with the JPAQ assessment).
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My counselling, assessment and written analysis specialism
I specialise in helping individuals who learn well from reading and writing, combined with counselling meetings. (My analytical reports and follow-up informational documents are a major part of my therapy.)
I also ask my potential clients to honestly complete a couple of helpful questionnaires, so I can collect relatively objective data about their situations – (rather than “working in the dark”, or being taken in the wrong direction by their subjective stories!)
My clients are also individuals who are willing and able to pay a realistic fee for a truly unique service of established value beyond the norm.
The way my counselling system works
If you want to know how my service works, and you could consult one of my former clients, this is roughly what they would say:
“First of all, Jim will take your initial statement of your problem, or the reason you give for consulting him, and he may send you three or four questions to get a clearer understanding of where you are stuck. Then he will identify two questionnaires which will allow him to collect deep and broad information about your situation – often focusing on your personality tendencies, and how you manage your lifestyle – though sometimes he might be more interested in your childhood than your current lifestyle.
“Before he sends you his chosen questionnaires, for you to complete, he will send you an invoice – or bank payment details – for his basic five-hour service…
“That service is broken down into…
- 1 hour for sending and receiving questions, and questionnaires, and making initial sense of the questionnaire information; and establishing an agenda for a 60 minute counselling session;
- 1 hour for the counselling session, which will probably involve some informal assessment (or follow up on the written answers in your questionnaires), plus some therapeutic interventions.
- Plus three hours for the follow-up. After you leave the meeting, he will spend at least three hours:
- Writing a report which will contain the following structure (in general):
- What happened at our meeting?
- Jim’s observations and analytical reflections
- Forming conclusions
- Plus a list of 2 or 3 psycho-educational document to be sent, after the report, containing the knowledge and skills that you will need to practice and learn, in order to resolve some or all of the problem discussed in the session.”
- Writing a report which will contain the following structure (in general):
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Cost of this assessment, counselling and follow-up service
With immediate effect – dated 18th July 2026 – my minimum service offering, as indicated above, will be a five-hour package – (up from the previous four). This will optimise my chances of being able to most effectively help you to resolve your presenting problem.
The total cost of 5 hours at GBP £90.00 per hour – which is GBP £450.00 – must be paid before the questionnaires are sent to you.
Service availability
This counselling/assessment/follow-up service is available in Hebden Bridge here.***
Or over the Internet – using MS Teams, or Psychology Today…
If you want to engage with this transformative process, please email Jim
or phone me on (44) 01422 843 629
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Standard Packages of Counselling, Assessment and Reports
Instead of the customized route, above, you could choose to invest in one of my standard Service packages, which are described briefly, next:
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Service No.1: Discover Your True Self & Overcome Old Patterns
Are perfectionism, people-pleasing, or control issues holding you back? Uncover the roots of your challenges with my in-depth Joines Personality Adaptations Questionnaire (JPAQ) service. Receive a clear analysis of your unique personality patterns and weaknesses, plus actionable guidance and tailored “homework” to help you move forward.
You’ll get personalized documents – one Elaborated Description and Action Guidance document for each of your (2 or 3 or more) Personality Adaptations, including practical next steps, and journal writing exercises to change the negative aspects of your personality tendencies. – Total cost: £360.00 GBP
Ready to learn more? Explore the service here
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For more information about this service, please go to my Exploring Your Personality Through Joines’ Adaptations page…
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Unsolicited client testimonials…
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Service No.2: Problem solving linked to personality adaptations PLUS lifestyle factors
Service No.2 focuses on addressing both personality adaptations and lifestyle factors, such as diet, sleep, and exercise, which together influence overall well-being, including mental health and emotional-behavioural functioning. I recommend Service No.2 for most people, as both personality and lifestyle issues often need attention. Clients will be asked to complete two questionnaires: the Joines Personality Adaptations Questionnaire and the E-Cent Lifestyle Factors Questionnaire, which assess personality patterns and key lifestyle habits that impact mental and physical health.
After I get your completed questionnaires, we will agree to a meeting date and time. 
The meeting will explore the content of your questionnaire answers, and matters arising. And after our meeting, I will write up an analytical report, and identify three or more follow-up documents to send to you.
This transformative service is available for just £630.00 GBP.
For more information about this service, please go to my Personality Adaptations and Lifestyle Factors Coaching page…
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If you are not ready to pursue this service at the present time, you might want to read one or two of our books on Lifestyle Factors in Physical and Mental Health, at the ABC Bookstore Online UK.***
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Unsolicited client testimonials…
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Service No.3: Problem solving linked to Childhood Developmental Trauma (or Complex-PTSD)
I have worked with a number of individuals who experienced childhood developmental trauma – (and I have written three books on this subject area!) The explorations I do with such clients involve the following questionnaires:
The JPAQ personality adaptations, attachment styles, and Adverse Childhood Circumstances questionnaires
If you are convinced that your childhood trauma is your problem, then I can help you with this service, which consists of
- six meetings,
- preceded by assessments,
- and followed by reports and psycho-educational documents.
For the realistic cost of £2,160.00 GBP… Payable in advance of my sending the first questionnaires…
For the month of April 2026, I am offering a discount of 30% for the first three applicants for Service No.3 only.
For more on this service,
please visit my Childhood Trauma Recovery Service page…
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If you are not yet ready to begin this therapy journey, then you might want to try a self-help approach, using our main book on Trauma Recovery: Transforming Traumatic Dragons:
How to recover from a history of trauma – using a whole body-brain-mind approach – By Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling.
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Unsolicited client testimonials…
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Jim Byrne and Renata Taylor-Byrne have been happily married since 1986; and happily cupled since 1980
Service No.4: Couple Relationship and Interpersonal Communication Skills Coaching and Counselling via Individual Sessions
I do not see couples in joint sessions. I see individual partners in separate sessions. And the fee quoted below for one package – (including one counselling session, prior assessments, follow-up reports, and follow-updocuments) – is for one individual partner only. If you both wish to consult me I will invoice you both separately for the fee shown below.
Questionnaires: I will begin by asking you, via email, a few orienting questions, so I can get an overview of your marital or relationship problem (as you see it!) Then I will send you between two and four questionnaires, depending on how you answered the initial questions:
- One will assess how your personality was shaped by your early childhood experiences in your parental home;
- Another will assess the level of Adverse Childhood Experiences you may have had;
- And there will be two to assess your attachment style.
- And the agenda of our meeting will include
- (1) some focused questions designed to measure the balance of positive to negative moments in your relationship;
- (2) an exploration of your interactional pattern; and
- (3) what it would take to fix your relationship.
My fee for this service is a mere £450.00 GBP. Payable before I send the questionnaires.
For more information about this service, please go to my Building Lasting Relationships page…
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If you are not yet ready to begin this journey, please check out our self-help resources (books) or individuals who want to improve their chances of having a happy, healthy and rewarding couple relationship: Couple Relationships and Couples Therapy.***
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Unsolicited client testimonials…
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Additional Services and/or information by Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling
For more information about me and my services, please check out the following links to pages on this site:
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Service No.5: Anger management services
… Get your inappropriate anger under control, before it wrecks your health, your career, your relationships…or worse!
Learn how to communicate powerfully with reasonable self-assertion, and acceptance of the unchangeable features of your life. Learn about the power of forgiveness. I will assess the roots of your anger problem, using detailed questionnaires; meet with you for an anger management counselling session (which will involve some informal assessment and some therapy interventions); spend some time reflecting on your questionnaire answers, after our meeting; write a detailed analytical report for you; and send you the report; and subsequently, at reasonable (negotiatiable internals – to suit your time availability), I’ll send you two or three (or more) follow-up documents containing the knowledge and skills, and journal-writing activities, that you will need in order to overcome your anger management problems.
The fee for this service – in which I will invest eight hours of my precious life, and the power of my little grey cells – is a mere £720.00 GBP, which must be paid before I send you my questionnaires.
For more details of my Anger Management Service (No.5), please click this link.
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Once again, if you are not ready to embark on this therapy journey, you might be interested in trying the self-help approach, and we have an excellent guide book for you on how to control your anger, entitled:
Anger, Resentment and Forgiveness – Overcome resentment and learn to forgive and accept.***
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General information pages…
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– Counselling in Hebden Bridge, face to face
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– Counselling via Teams and web camera
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– Counselling via the telephone system
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Additional counselling and therapy services pages…
See also these pages:
Service No.6: Counselling for grief and depression…
…Grief and depression are closely related… Both are related to a feeling of intense and meaningful loss or failure…
Grief should be allowed to take its natureal course; but “stuck depression”, which is still hurting more than eighteen months after the loss or failure, needs to be managed to get it resolved effectively.
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Service No.7: Counselling for anxiety and panic…
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- How to rewire your brain for better relationships. (The Inner Couple Model)
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- Psychological first aid after a recent traumatic experience
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- Habit change guidance and support
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- Stress management services
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- Depression counselling services
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- Health and wellbeing coaching services
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Or take a look at our current books in print, at the ABC Bookstore.
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To find out more, please go to:
- About Dr Jim Byrne (his education, training, and accreditation)
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- Accreditation and Ethics (describes my ethical codes of practice and complaints procedures)
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- About the system of counselling and therapy that I use (which is Emotive-Cognitive Embodied Narrative Therapy [E-CENT])
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- SITE MAP – under revision…
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- Books by Dr Jim Byrne and Renata Taylor-Byrne.
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Dr Jim Byrne and Renata Taylor-Byrne have been happily married since 1986; and happily coupled since 1980. Together they manage the ABC Coaching and Counselling Services Group – which includes this website; plus Renata’s ABC Coaching and Counselling Division; and the ABC Bookstore Online UK.
Registered address: 27 Wood End, Hebden Bridge, HX7 8HJ, UK
Email: Dr Jim Byrne or Renata Taylor-Byrne
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We work with self-motivated adults. We do not see anybody under the age of 21 years. And we do not see clients who are “sent” by others, as distinct from “choosing freely” to work with one of us.
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Postscript
“If you met your 80 year old self, today, what would they beg you to stop postponing?” Susan O’Malley…
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According to Jim Rohn, every day, each of us must choose between the pain of self-discipline and the pain of regret (down the road). This disciple could apply to controlling your sugary foods; doing some exercise; holding your angry tongue; or working on your self-education and self-development. Which do you normally choose? The (relatively difficult) pain of self-discipline? Or the (extremely painful) pain of regret?
If you will not act on your own behalf, who do you imagine will?
If not now; when?
Take action now!
Now is the only moment in which you have a chance to improve your future!
And nobody is coming on a cuffing white charger to rescue you!
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Sincere best wishes,
Jim Byrne
Doctor of Counselling
Email: Dr Jim Byrne
ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy Services.
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ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy, Hebden Bridge 