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Dr Jim’s Counselling Service, in Hebden Bridge, near Halifax, HX7 8HJ, West Yorkshire, UK…
…and all over the world via Skype, Zoom, or telephone/ email counselling…
About Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling
Updated on 11th January 2023
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“Counselling is a wonderful 20th century invention. This view was expressed by Dr John McLeod, the author of a famous book, Introduction to Counselling. Our approach to counselling has evolved even further, to include all those elements which are important to the physical and mental health – and emotional well-being – of our counselling and therapy clients”.
Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling.
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Dr Jim Byrne has developed the most holistic (or complete) model of counselling psychology, in collaboration with Renata Taylor-Byrne.
(It is more complete than any other system, because he includes a focus on every major influence on the body, brain and mind of the individual client [including diet, exercise, sleep, relaxation, philosophy of life, current environmental stressors, childhood experience – in terms of attachment and personality adaptations – and many more]!)
And he has also developed the most comprehensive approach to delivering therapeutic results to his clients, (which includes – [in a “single package”] – a comprehensive formal assessment [relative to the client’s presenting problem]; one meeting [of up to 60 minutes]; a follow-up report; and normally six psycho-educational follow-up documents, containing the knowledge and skills the client needs to resolve their most urgent problems: [all of which takes about twelve to fourteen weeks to complete]).
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Hello,
Whatever your problem might be, there is a good chance that I can help you!
My name is Jim Byrne, and I have a doctoral degree in counselling.
I am in my 25th year of professional practice as a counsellor/ coach/ psychotherapist in private practice (with effect from 2nd November 2022).
Over the past 25 years, I have helped more than 1,250 individuals (including many couples) to overcome problems of anger, anxiety, depression, stress, poor self-confidence or self-esteem; couple conflict; communication skills difficulties; childhood trauma problems; personality and attachment issues; and all manner of problems at home and in work.
My doctoral degree in counselling (DCoun) is from the University of Manchester, UK (2002-2009). I also hold: A master’s degree in education (MA(Ed)) from the Open University, UK (1991-1994). And a diploma in counselling psychology and psychotherapy (DipCPPsych-Rus) from Rusland College, Bath, UK (2001-2003).
I am an accredited Fellow of the International Society of Psychotherapy and Counselling (FISPC); and a member of Counselling (CCC-Reg).
I also have two certificates in Rational Emotive and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RE&CBT), from the Albert Ellis Institute, NYC, with the University of Birmingham (November 2005); and the old Institute for REBT, in Bristol, UK (November 1999) – though I no longer practice anything like CBT/REBT.
Instead, I practice an emotive-cognitive-narrative system of counselling which integrates the best and most useful elements of the fifteen or so systems I have studied, including minor fragments of CBT; combined with lots of Attachment theory, Affect regulation theory, Object relations theory, Personality Adaptations theory, Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), Person-centered counselling, Transactional Analysis, Gestalt therapy, and many others. (My system is called Emotive-Cognitive Embodied Narrative Therapy, or E-CENT counselling for short. What is E-CENT counselling?***) And it is probably the deepest, most rounded system of counselling and therapy currently on offer anywhere in the world!
E-CENT counselling also incorporates insights into the body-brain-mind links – (including the importance of diet, exercise, sleep, relaxation, meditation, and so on).
So we deal with you as a whole person, and not just with your ‘mind’.
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If you would like my help, please contact me today:
You can contact me by phone: 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)
Or 44 1422 843 629 from outside the UK).
Or Email: Dr Jim’s email.***
Back to ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy Services Home Page.***
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More information about my counselling services
Welcome to my unique problem solving and personal development process (which combines elements of counselling psychology; coaching psychology; problem solving strategies; empowering philosophies of life; healthy lifestyle guidance; and emotional, behavioural and relationship skills training/coaching/counselling).
This is a richer and deeper approach than conventional counselling, coaching and psychotherapy, as will be obvious from the following list of component elements of my Enhanced Main Counselling Service:
Main Service
My Enhanced Main Counselling and Psychotherapy Service:
My Enhanced, Main Service was updated on 5th August 2022. The main changes are a result of feedback from current clients, who wanted a reduction in the intensity of the “homework” component of this service. Here is the revised structure:
1 – Formal assessment questionnaires – (Function: To collect relevant data about some potential sources of your current problem[s]. Normally between four and seven questionnaires will be sent by me to you, usually as email attachments; and I may ask some supplementary questions once I’ve seen your answers. The subject of each questionnaire is determined by the problem[s] you wish to address in our work together).
2 – A counselling meeting of up to sixty minutes (which is mainly more assessment, at our first meeting. [If you opt for a second meeting, then we get to do more therapy than assessment during the second meeting]);
3 – An analytical report. (This includes: what happened at our meeting; my observations, reflections and conclusions; plus my assessment of your questionnaire answers; plus a customized list of written materials which I will send, at fortnightly intervals, over a twelve to fourteen week period). I will send my analytical report to you within seven to ten days of our meeting. (When my analysis is particularly extensive [in terms of numbers of pages], which is not uncommon, I sometimes send it in two or three smaller chunks, over a period of several weeks!)
4 – My report (or the first instalment of my report) is followed by six informational documents (called psycho-educational [or bibliotherapy] handouts), which will teach you the knowledge and skills you need in order to begin to resolve the problem or problems we discussed in our meeting, [plus problems or developmental needs identified by the assessment questionnaires]. These documents will be sent to you at intervals of two weeks, over a twelve to fourteen week period).
Those four elements, above, are collectively called a “single package” of my Enhanced Main Service; and I normally recommend that you sign up for a “double package”, which involves repeating the above processes again – (at the end of the twelve to fourteen week period of the first package) – but with more time for therapy during our second meeting.
You can repeat this process as often as you need to. I estimate that close to 50% of people will only need a single package to resolve their most pressing problem(s). Some will require a double package. And some will need more than one double package, depending on the complexity and difficulty of their problems.
After the first one or two packages of my Main Service, you might want to switch to my (Almost) Pure Talk Therapy service, to keep your costs down; or because you have had enough documentary follow-up, and mainly want to talk about your thoughts, feelings, behaviours, and/or relationships.
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Fees for my Enhanced Main Service
With effect from 1st February 2023, the following fees will apply:
– A single package will cost just £600.00 GBP; and:
– A double package will cost just £1,000.00 GBP – (if it is booked as a double package, and paid in advance; resulting in a saving of £200.00p GBP. (And a double package can be shared by a married or cohabiting couple who will get one meeting each, with individual reports and six follow-up documents each).
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Postscript on 5th December 2022 – Payment by instalments
Updated on 1st February 2023
In view of the current economic climate, I am willing to split a single package into three elements, and to allow clients to pay for one element at a time, which amounts to a system of Payment by Instalments, as follows:
A single package, as defined above, can be broken down into the following three elements, and paid for over a three month period:
Element 1: Sending of questionnaires; receiving completed questionnaires; setting up the face-to-face (or Skype) counselling meeting; conducting the counselling meeting. Fee: £225.00 GBP, to be paid at least three days before I send the questionnaires.
Element 2: One month after our meeting, the second payment (of £225.00 GBP) is due. When that payment arrives: I spend several days crunching the data from the questionnaires, and summarizing what I learned from our meeting. I send that report. And two weeks later I will send Follow-up Document 1. And two weeks after that I will send Follow-up Document 2.
Element 3: Two months after our meeting, the third payment of £225.00 GBP is due. When that payment arrives: I authorize the release of the outstanding four documents – (Documents, 3, 4, 5 and 6) – which will be sent at fortnightly intervals, over a period of approximately two months. (The intervals can be increased to reduce the pressure of reading/studying on you).
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Recent Client Testimonial
♣ “Hi Jim, I’m very grateful for your latest report, which is highly detailed and analytical, as always. The content about the (personal details about my relationship) is fascinating. I think your analysis is brilliant, and it sums up so much about my life that I could never have put into words. … Thanks again…”
M.H., Wigan, Lancs. (Three “single packages” of my main service, via the telephone; followed by detailed reports).
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If you wish to sign up for this service, please email drjwbyrne@gmail.com
Or telephone Jim on 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)
Or 44 1422 843 629 (from outside the UK).
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My (Almost) Pure Talk Therapy Service
This service was designed for individuals who believe they do not learn well from written materials, and/or who prefer verbal communication.
1 – First, I ask you to complete a maximum of two questionnaires;
2 – Then we meet for a sixty minute counselling session, face-to-face in Hebden Bridge; or via Skype or the telephone system.
3 – I sometimes send a very brief report after our meeting (if I feel compelled to do so, for the sake of the client’s needs); and I sometimes send a document or two with relevant information (but by no means always!) When I do send such documents, they normally refer back to the results of the assessment questionnaires, and include insights into the client’s personality and lifestyle self-management.
4 – End of the (almost) pure talk therapy process.
Some of my talk therapy clients have attended for one or two sessions; but some have been consulting me for more than five years!
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Fees for my Almost Pure Talk Therapy service
With effect from 1st February 2023, the fee for a single session of this service will be just £300.00 GBP.
If you pay in advance for two sessions the combined cost will be just £500.00 GBP – which is a saving of £100.00 GBP.
Once you’ve completed your first two single sessions – or one double session – of Almost Pure Talk Therapy, the session fee will reduce to £200.00. (And at this point, if you book two sessions in advance, the total fee for those two sessions will fall to £300.00 GBP which is an additional saving of £100.00)
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Postscript: I do not offer Payment by Instalments for (Almost) Pure Talk Therapy.
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Areas of counselling and therapy specialism
Here is a list of my main specialisms. Each of those specialisms has its own information page. To go to any specific information page, please click the relevant link below:
- Couples therapy services
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- Anger management services
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- Habit change guidance and support
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- General Online/Skype/Zoom counselling (including trauma therapy and attachment therapy)
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- Stress management services
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- Depression and anxiety counselling services
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- Health and wellbeing coaching services
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- Counselling supervision services
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- Authorship coaching services
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- (Almost) Pure Talk Therapy (with minimal assessments and follow-up bibliotherapy!)
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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:
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# Information page about telephone, email and Skype counselling***
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# Unsolicited client testimonials.***
I have received a large number of unsolicited client testimonials, hundreds of which can be found by clicking the link above.
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I am a Fellow Member of the International Society of Psychotherapy and Counselling (FISPC), and a Registered Member of Counselling (CCC.Reg).
I am in my twenty-fourth year (as at the 2nd of November 2021) as a counsellor in private practice, in Hebden Bridge, and all over the world via the telephone system, Skype-webcam, and by email. During that time, I have helped more than twelve hundred clients, and some of them have sent me unsolicited testimonials about what they gained from working with me.***
Three sample client testimonials:
♣ To Jim: “…At our previous session, your main intervention had the precision of an acupuncture needle hitting the spot. I felt a great sense of relief from depression and stress immediately. I felt so light and free. Thank you. … See you next week”.
J.K.K., Wakefield, West Yorkshire. (Three sessions of F2F counselling for emotional distress).
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♣ “Dear Jim, I’ve been thinking back over the past year, and I really appreciate the great benefit I got from your guidance of my self-reflection. I have learned so much from you. And I am so much more sorted out than I was. Thank you”.
P.A.N., Crag Vale, Calderdale. (36 sessions of Face 2 face counselling for stress and anxiety, and relationship maladaptation).
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♣ “Hey Jim, … I continue to benefit from the Mind Hut, or Windows Model, at every opportunity when I’m in a bad emotional state, including depressive moments. It takes just half an hour or less and I recover a good emotional state that is also durable. … With appreciation for the work you do, I salute you and I will keep you as a reference point”.
M.V.S., Madrid, Spain (Two email counselling sessions for depression and stress).
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Further information:
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# Information page about telephone, email and Skype counselling***
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# Unsolicited client testimonials.***
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You can contact me by phone: 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)
Or 44 1422 843 629 from outside the UK).
Email: Dr Jim’s email.***
Back to ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy Services Home Page.***
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I have also researched and written (and/or co-authored) more than twenty-three books on counselling, personal development and self-help related subjects – including anger, anxiety, depression; diet, exercise, sleep; stress and couple relationships; how to write a new life for yourself – plus some stories – and brief descriptions can be viewed on the homepage of the ABC Bookstore Online UK.***
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