Email Coaching/Counselling Service
With Renata Taylor-Byrne
Write our your problems, send them to me, and I’ll help to solve them
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Hello and welcome to my Email Coaching/Counselling service.
I’m Renata Taylor-Byrne, and I am in my sixth year in private practice in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, UK. Prior to that I worked as a college lecturer, teaching Counselling skills/Psychology/Stress management/Health and Care/ Nutrition/ Assertiveness and Personal Effectiveness, at a College in West Yorkshire, for more than 30 years.
Over the years, I’ve helped hundreds of people with stress management problems; confidence and self-esteem building; anxiety control and anger management; and time management problems. Some of those individuals also needed help with attachment issues, life transitions, goals and habits, and many other issues and concerns.
I have also authored, co-authored, or contributed to books on anger, anxiety, depression; diet, exercise, sleep; habit change; and so on.
If you are the kind of person who likes to write, and would find it helpful to get coaching advice via email, then email coaching/ counselling could be a good option for you. I have helped many people using this approach.
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Email counselling works best for individuals who enjoy reading and writing, and who have developed their skills of expressing themselves in writing.
My service offering is this: I will read, analyse and comment upon two pages of typed text, about your thoughts/feelings/problems/concerns. (The pages should be A4 or Letter size; in 12 point type; with normal margins). My fee for this service can be found here: Schedule of Fees.***
My comments will be in typed text, on the same document that you submit.
If you would like to book a session of Email Coaching/ Counselling with me, then please email me at renata@abc-counselling.org, and I will send you my bank account details.
When you have paid your fee into my bank account, please submit your two pages of text, with a covering email. I look forward to working with you, and helping you to solve your problems.
Send your completed two-pages of text, in Word (.doc or .docx), with a brief covering email, to renata@abc-counselling.org
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Or if you need any further information about this service, please email me at renata@abc-counselling.org.
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How I will respond to your email
I will read your email attachment, and, as I read, I type my comments at various points in your text; giving my interpretations and insights, and any advice or guidance that seems appropriate.
As soon as you’ve paid your fee, you can write your email and send it to: renata@abc-counselling.org
I will normally send my detailed and considered reply to your email within two or three working days.
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“Writing therapy is highly effective, compared with drug treatments, but the mechanism by which writing therapy works is still unclear. It may just be that the opportunity to express a problem that has been bottled up is curative in itself; or that it is the thinking through of a problem that has not previously been thoroughly digested that produces the effect.
Effective writing therapy seems to involve processing previously unprocessed negative emotions, in a self-reflective way, and identifying causal links between elements of the story. It also normally involves using more positive than negative words, and ending with a coping self-statement”. Dr Jim Byrne, from the first e-book on E-CENT counselling.
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Email counselling can involve one or two sessions to sort out a practical problem; or a more extensive series of sessions, to resolve deeper, more emotional experiences.
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If you would like to book a session of Email Coaching/ Counselling with me, then please email me at renata@abc-counselling.org, and I will send you my bank account details.
When you have paid your fee into my bank account, please please submit your two pages of text, with a covering email. I look forward to working with you, and helping you to solve your problems.
Send your completed two-pages of text, in Word (.doc or .docx), with a brief covering email, to renata@abc-counselling.org
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Or if you need any further information about this service, please email me at renata@abc-counselling.org.
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INSIGHTS INTO EMAIL EXCHANGES
AS A FORM OF THERAPY
According to the International Society for Mental Health Online (ISMHO):
“… In the case of using email exchanges …, you may feel more comfortable writing about your problems than talking about them”.
– You may write about what is bothering you sooner than you would talk about it. This can bring faster resolution to problems.
– Writing may help you to think through your problems and to get in touch with your emotions. It can bring focus, clarity, insight, and emotional relief.
– You can read and re-read your emails, thus achieving greater learning.
– Writing enhances your relationship with yourself. …”
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Some additional points are made by Susan Wallbank, talking about writing more generally:
“(Email) counselling allows the client an opportunity to express thoughts and feelings and explore issues at the time when these are uppermost in their mind. (Emails) can be written at (a time of most convenience) and continued over a period of days or weeks. The client determines the timing of their side of the contract. Putting words down on paper often enables the writer to feel a sense of control over their situation and is often perceived as therapeutic in itself. Knowing someone is there to receive, acknowledge and respond to (emails) can provide those moving through (painful or distressing transitions) with a sense of security and provides a tangible opportunity to chart personal progress”. Susan Wallbank, in Palmer and McMahon (2000).
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I have looked in detail at the question of suitability of email counselling for particular audiences, and concluded that writing therapy seems to be a viable option for most people, but excluding people who are either: depressed, highly stressed, suffering from PTSD, or who have negative associations with writing at school. It probably appeals most to people who enjoy writing, and who are self-reflective.
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If you are not sure how to begin to write your email, you might find it helpful to read Dr Jim Byrne’s “Guidelines for Writing Therapy”. I (Renata) have reviewed and subscribe to those guidelines.
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If you would like to book a session of Email Coaching/ Counselling with me, then please email me at renata@abc-counselling.org, and I will send you my bank account details.
When you have paid your fee into my bank account, please submit your two pages of text, with a covering email. I look forward to working with you, and helping you to solve your problems.
Send your completed two-pages of text, in Word (.doc or .docx), with a brief covering email, to renata@abc-counselling.org
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Or if you need any further information about this service, please email me at renata@abc-counselling.org.
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When you write to me (Renata), I will respond to the key points in your email with analysis, interpretations, suggestions and action-oriented homework assignments. I might also send some handouts, or recommend some book or books for you to read.
In other words, I will make recommendations about what you can do that will most likely help to solve your problem as quickly and efficiently as is possible.
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ABC Coaching and Counselling Services
To discuss this service, or to get additional information, please email renata@abc-counselling.org.
Or phone me, Renata Taylor-Byrne, on:
44 1422 843 629 (from outside the UK); or:
01422 843 629 (from inside the UK).
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If you would like to book a session of Email Coaching/ Counselling with me, then please email me at renata@abc-counselling.org, and I will send you my bank account details.
When you have paid your fee into my bank account, please please submit your two pages of text, with a covering email. I look forward to working with you, and helping you to solve your problems.
Send your completed two-pages of text, in Word (.doc or .docx), with a brief covering email, to renata@abc-counselling.org
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Or if you need any further information about this service, please email me at renata@abc-counselling.org.
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My service offering is this: I will read, analyse and comment upon two pages of typed text, about your thoughts/feelings/problems/concerns. (The pages should be A4 or Letter size; in 12 point type; with normal margins). My fee for this service can be found here: Schedule of Fees.***
My comments will be in typed text, on the same document that you submit.
If you would like to book a session of Email Coaching/ Counselling with me, then please email me at renata@abc-counselling.org, and I will send you my bank account details.
When you have paid your fee into my bank account, please submit your two pages of text, with a covering email. I look forward to working with you, and helping you to solve your problems.
Send your completed two-pages of text, in Word (.doc or .docx), with a brief covering email, to renata@abc-counselling.org
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ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy, Hebden Bridge 