ABOUT DR JIM BYRNE Jim Byrne is a counsellor who offers counselling help in
Halifax and Hebden Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, UK; and all over the world via the telephone and computer networks.
ABOUT ABC COACHING
ABC Coaching & Counselling
Services, for REBT/CBT/CENT, in Halifax, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, UK. And all over the world by telephone, email, and
Skype.
ABOUT CENTCOUNSELLING Cognitive Emotive Narrative
Therapy (CENT) combines elements of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (or Dr Albert Ellis's REBT), general Cognitive Behaviour
Therapy (or Beck's CBT), Transactional Analysis (TA), Zen Philosophy, and Object Relations theory: to help clients to resolve
their emotional, behavioural and relationship problems quickly and efficiently.
ABOUT
THE PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS Jim Byrne uses CENT counselling and therapy to help people overcome their anger,
anxiety, depression, stress, low self esteem, couple conflict, and general emotional misery, behavioural dysfunction and poor
thinking skills. His clients acquire greater emotional intelligence, resilience and coping capability.
THE KEY EQUATION Happiness (or calm serenity) plus success
(or some level of meaningful goal achievement) plus mutually satisfying relationships (at
least one) equals "good mental health".
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"If
you think counselling is expensive, try self-neglect!"
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If
you want to be successful in life, practice extreme self care!
Do you need professional counselling help with practical problems, emotional pain, or relationship difficulties?
"Hello. My system of counselling and therapy has helped many people
to get rid of their emotional distress about their problems; to act more effectively in life and work; and to be
happier in their relationships".
"Counselling
for you: If you're looking for a counsellor who can help you with your problems of daily living, at home or at
work, then click the first link below. I can be consulted by telephone from any part of the world, by English-speaking
clients. I also offer email counselling, or communication via computer based Skype software.
"On the other hand, if you want to find out what counselling is, the benefits
of counselling, the nature of different kinds of counselling and therapy, then check out the 12 video clips on this page".
Jim Byrne, 25 February 2010 - jim.byrne@abc-counselling.com
Why counselling? Because counselling can change your life for the better. You
owe it to yourself to create the best life you possibly can for yourself and your loved ones. I can teach you how to think
more effectively; to understand and manage your own feelings better; to get rid of irrational and unhelpful behaviours; and
to manage your relationships better.
Hi – Do you want to be happy and free? Do you want to be more self confident and
successful in your relationships at home and at work? I use what are called "coaching and counselling approaches"
to teach individuals how to solve their problems of daily living; to have happier lives; to become more confident; to reduce
stress, depression and anger; and to be more successful in all areas of their lives. Do you want to experience
more happiness, freedom and peace of mind?Or perhaps you'd like to know the benefits you could
gain from counselling? Here's a little video clip in which I describe the benefits of counselling and therapy:
I'm Dr Jim Byrne, and I’m here to offer you the chance to use my counselling, coaching and therapy services to:
1. Solve your relationship problems so you have more love and happiness
in your life.
2. Have a greater sense of control in relation to your practical problems,
which will promote your sense of freedom.
3. Learn to think more skilfully, so you can have
much more success, as well as fun and laughter in your life; and a greater sense of peace of mind.
4. Massively increase your self confidence, and improve your self discipline and emotional control,
so you can go after your goals and achieve them.
Does that sound like something that is worth your time and effort? Would it matter that
it cost some money as well? You could change your life using what you can learn from cognitive emotive counselling,
or Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT).
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I’m a Doctor of Counselling and a Professional
Counsellor, with more than eleven years successful experience in private practice. I also am an accredited Fellow
of the International Society of Professional Counsellors (FISPC).
I offer counselling, coaching and therapy in Halifax and HebdenBridge, West Yorkshire, UK; and all over the world via the telephone and computer systems.
If
you need a counsellor or coach, or counselling and therapy help, or any kind of help with problems of emotion, thinking or
behaviour, or human relationships, please contact me today:
Counselling people all over the world via the telephone, email and Skype. (Available in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and for English speakers everywhere).
The
people who come to see me are mainly struggling with problems like:
1. anger about their partner’s or work colleagues’
behaviours;
2. anxiety about appearing in public, or about their performance at home or at work;
3.
depression about some loss or failure in their lives;
4. or they are struggling with stress, or low self
esteem, or relationship and communication problems, at home or at work; or career and/or business difficulties.
Sometimes
they come as individuals to get coaching and counselling for their own problems of daily living; and sometimes they come as
couples, to work on their relationships.
Here's a recent testimonial
I received from a satisfied client:
"Hi Jim. ... ... On a final note, I have friends who see therapists on a regular basis, some on medication,
etc., and they seem no better off than myself. I believe your work over the phone and internet is as effective as anything
I am observing...so keep up the excellent work. I believe you are really onto something and if I have an opportunity, I will
recommend you to others! I assume you would not mind. ...". J.P., New York City, USA. (Four sessions of telephone counselling,
plus three email exchanges). (Identity disguised to preserve anonymity).
Counselling people
all over the world via the telephone, email and Skype. (Available in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and for English speakers everywhere).
The main services that I offer are listed in the links that follow:
Coaching, counselling and psychotherapy services
The following counselling, coaching and psychotherapy services are available with Dr Jim Byrne:
Face-to-face Counselling Services; In HebdenBridge and Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK; Cognitive Emotive
Narrative Therapy, for emotional, behavioural and relationship problems. See the Face to face counselling page.
Long-distance Counselling Services; Including Telephone counselling; Email
counselling; Web-cam counselling; and Instant Messaging counselling. See Long distance counselling page.
Couples counselling;
Face to face or by long distance processes; Help with couple conflict, communication skills, amicable separation, or rebuilding
relationships. See the Couples therapy page.
Anger management coaching;
At a distance or face to face; I can help you to calm down, think through your frustrations and insults, and learn to assert
yourself constructively rather than lashing out destructively. See the Anger management coaching page.
Coaching for self-confidence; Face to face in Halifax or HebdenBridge; or at a distance by phone or computer connection; I can help you to become much more confident about yourself
in your social encounters. See the Confidence coaching page.
Stress management coaching; At a distance or meeting in Halifax/Hebden Bridge; I can teach you to relax, unwind, and better manage your
everyday stresses. See the Stress management coaching page.
Life and business coaching/mentoring; If you have problems with your work, career or business management, then I can help you. Check
out the Life and Business Coaching page.
If you need any further information about these services, please pick up the phone:
For CBT, REBT, TA, CENT counselling and therapy in Hebden Bridge
and Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK
Counselling people all over the world via the telephone, email and Skype. (Available in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and for English speakers everywhere).
“Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick (American clergyman 1878-1969)
For counselling-related advice
on depression, try the Depression page at PsychCentral, or go to Defeating Depression, here.
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"The
most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce
the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth". George Eliot (Mary
Ann Evans)
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What is Counselling?
In this
section I will introduce a number of ideas about counselling, using video clips. By intention is to give you a rough
idea of what it is like to be counselled by counsellors from several different disciplines, including the cognitive behavioural,
the psychodynamic (or emotive) approach, the narrative approach, and so on. You will get a sense of some of the diffrences
of emphasis and the areas of overlap in these various schools of counselling and therapy.
If you are already familiar with counselling and therapy, then please skip the introduction to counselling
video that follows, and go to the video intro to Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT). If you would like an introduction to the subject of counselling, and to Dr Byrne's own Cognitive Emotive Narrative
Counselling, then please see the video clips and links that follow immediately. Click > once:
This definition of counselling
and coaching is further elaborated in the links that follow:
The system of counselling that I use is called Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT), and I
have produced a brief and general video introduction to this system, which follows. Click > once:
Again, if you want further
clarification about Cognitive Emotive Narrative Counselling/Therapy (CENT), then please read the following brief paper on
that subject:
So, I have now defined
counselling, and presented a brief introduction to CENT, which is an integration of ideas and techniques from CBT, REBT, TA,
Object Relations, and Narrative Therapy. However, before I present you with any more of my own video clips about Cognitive
Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT), I want to break that down into components that are easier to understand. So first I will
present a video clip which features a National Health Service (NHS) client who had Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
for depression when her husband died. Her testimonial should give you some good insights into what people get from cognitive
type therapies:
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Next I want to present a statement from an NHS (National Health
Service) expert in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), talking about the benefits to be gained from this kind of counselling
and therapy:
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Now I would like to show you a counselling role play session,
based on Cognitive Therapy, with a young man who is unhappy with his life:
All systems of CBT were inspired by the original form of cognitive behaviour
counselling, which was Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), developed by Dr Albert Ellis, in New York City, in the period
1953-1962, and continually updated since that time, up to his death in 2007.
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As a final illustration
of the CBT approach to counselling, here is a CBT role play from the Australian Institute of Professional Counselling (AIPC):
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There are no really good videos of role plays using Rational
Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT) - which is a shame. However, here is a video clip in which Dr Jeffrey Guterman presents
a one minute excerpt from a telephone counselling session he had with Dr Albert Ellis, the creator of REBT, back in the early
1980s. Jeffry is on the telephone to the Institute for RET in New York City. It nicely illustrates something about
the ABC model of REBT:
The basic difference between general CBT and REBT is
that, in CBT the counsellor will be looking to identify your 'automatic thoughts ' - especially over-generalizations,
ignoring positives, and producing exaggerations - while in REBT the counsellor looks for what are called 'irrational
beliefs', which include demanding the unattainable, exaggerating the degree of badness of your situation, assuming you can
not tolerate your problems, and condemning and damning yourself, other people, and the world. To find out more about
REBT, try the 'What is REBT?' page.
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So much for the cognitive approach. Now I want to show you a role play session illustrating a more emotive
counselling approach - the psycho-dynamic counselling model - in which the counsellor looks for the roots of current problems
in the childhood of the client:
A recent issue of Scientific American contains evidence that psycho-dynamic
counseling is highly effective for a range of issues, and that participants in the research not only improved as a result
of the counselling, but continued to improve on their own, many months after the counselling sessions ended.
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We have looked at examples of cognitive and emotive approaches to counselling, and now we will take a look at a role
play demonstrating what Narrative Therapy is like, as a process of counselling:
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Obviously, there are lots of overlaps between these systems
of counselling and therapy, and some obvious differences. These role plays are a little stilted, since they are not genuine
counselling sessions; but they should give you some sense of what would be involved in coming to see me, and working on your
issues.
Before I move on to Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT), I just want to let you see a demonstration
of a form of counselling called Gestalt Therapy, developed by Dr Fritz Perls. Again this is a role play, and not a real
session, but it conveys the essence of how a Gestalt counsellor would work:
And finally, here is little interview with Viktor Frankl, the creator of Logo Therapy, on our freedom and responsibility
to develop ourselves. Our freedom to take a stand on what we are confronted by. We can always choose to change our attitude
towards a noxious situation. You can choose to rise above your suffering by an act of choice, as long as you recognize that
you have that choice. You need to find a meaning to the suffering in your life. If it is meaningless it will defeat you. Once
you can locate it in some kind of pesonal meaning system, it becomes manageable:
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Cognitive Emotive
Counselling and Therapy (CENT) and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT)
Now you have a better idea of what is meant by cognitive counselling; cognitive behavioural therapy; psycho-dynamic
(or emotive) counselling; Gestalt therapy; and narrative counselling and therapy; you are in a much better position to cope
with my presentations on Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT) and Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT). My
next video clip, which follows below, describes some of the counselling models used in CENT. It begins with the ABC model
from REBT, and shows how the counsellor 'debates and disputes' some of the client's unhelpful beliefs and gets them to change
them to more rational beliefs. It then moves on to the EFR model of CENT counselling and therapy. The E is the Event
or Experience that the client has had, about which they are disturbed. The F is the Frame through which they are
viewing and interpreting the E. And the R is the Response, or the Result of the E times the F; the emotional and behavioural
response. The F in the EFR model differs significantly from the B in the ABC model in that much of the material that
makes up the Frame through which the client interpreted the Event is non-conscious! Finally,
I briefly introduce the Five Windows Model, and provide some detail on the first three 'windows'. This will be taken
further in the second video clip in this series:
Part Two
of this video series will be publisher here soon.
And since
CENT originally came out of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), you might also want to consult the following webpage:
Some people think that REBT counselling and therapy
is too insensitive to the client's needs, and I think that it is important to clarify this issue. Therefore, I
made the following video to show that I consider empathy towards the counselling client to be one of the most important principles
of good, effective counselling and therapy. This video models how to respond empathetically to a distressing problem
presented by a client. Here's the video on The Role of Empathy in REBT:
To see Part 2 of this video series on
the ABCs of REBT, please go here:
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What to do next?
If you have an emotional,
behavioural or relationship problem, and you have not been able to resolve it on your own, or with help from others, then
please consider discussing it with me for five or ten minutes, by telephone to see how well we would work together.
For a free 5-10 minute telephone consultation, using counselling and coaching approaches,
please click the Freephone button that follows:
If you don’t feel like phoning me immediately, or using email, you could take a look at one of the video clips above,
in which I define what counseling is, and talk about my own system of counelling and therapy, and also describe some of the
counselling models that I use. That will give you some kind of sense of who I am and what it might be like to have counselling,
coaching or therapy sessions with me. Watching the videos would not as good as a telephone conversation, but it might
be enough.
Jim Byrne Doctor
of Counselling ABC Coaching and Counselling Services
Counselling people all over the world via the telephone, email and Skype. (Available in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and for English speakers everywhere).
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"A book is a garden, an orchard,
a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors". Pierre Charles Baudleaire
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Links:
The Five Main Services page lists the services available on this site, which extend beyond counselling and psychotherapy, coaching and mentoring, into
training, books and free information.
The Happiness Blog illustrates the application of CENT counselling to problems of daily living, and describes the models and components of this
system of counselling.
The Business Success Blog illustrates how to think clearly about crunch points in business and professional affairs. It is a combination of Brian
Tracy's business coaching approach and Jim Byrne's cognitive-emotive counselling approach.
The Life, Happiness and Success page contains a lot of free information about how to become your own counsellor and to promote your own health, wealth, success
and happiness.
About Dr Jim Byrne is a page of information on my counselling and therapy education, training, accreditation and background experience.
The Unsolicited Client Testimonials page lists a few of the notes that I received from former clients, explaining what they got from my counselling services, and
expressing their gratitude for my help. There is then a link to a second, longer list of testimonials from earlier counselling
and therapy clients.
The About Albert Ellis page contains a number of posts about commemorations of the life and death of Dr Ellis, the most hard working and productive counsellor
and psychotherapist of all time, and some links to some historical background on the conflict at the Albert Ellis Institute.
The REBT Network website contains lots of interesting articles about Albert Ellis and the development of REBT counselling and therapy.
The Supervision page: Here you will find information about my supervision service for Rational Emotive, Cognitive Emotive and general CBT counsellors
and therapists.
The ABC Coaching Academyoffers face to face and long distance training courses in REBT / CBT / CENT / TA / counselling and therapy,
and other subjects, in Hebden Bridge and Halifax, and by correspondence and over the internet.
The Institute for CENT Studieshas been in existence for almost three years, and has an agenda to develop CENT counselling and therapy theory
and practice. So far, there are 12 papers on CENT counselling and therapy on the page. An e-book is
also being written, based on those papers. Membership of the Institute is also available to suitably qualified individuals.
Some months ago, I decided to make available a range of free resources
on various counselling-related problems, including anger management, eliminating anxiety, defeating depression, couples therapy,
and confidence coaching. Why not use those resources to become your own counsellor, by studying the ideas that cognitive
counsellors use to help counselling clients to solve their problems? Check the Free Counselling Resources page.
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Information About Counselling
The following pages
provide background information about counselling services at ABC Coaching and Counselling Services:
What is
Counselling?
In simple terms, counselling involves one person (the counsellor) helping another
person (the client) to work through some difficult or painful emotional, behavioural or relationship problem or difficulty.
This takes place in a confidential meeting, in a quiet room, and is subject to a code of ethics which specifies what
the counsellor can and cannot morally do in that context. (See the Accreditation and Ethics page).
As practiced by Jim Byrne, counselling and therapy (and coaching) amount to helping the
client to identify the source of their emotional or behavioural problems; and/or to refine their understanding of their practical
problems; and/or to clarify their goals in relation to some developmental challenge; and/or to overcome their emotional, behavioural
or relationship difficulties or problems. To understand how he operates as a counsellor is to perceive him as a "(relatively)
wise philosopher who teaches what he has used to heal his own life". ...more on what is counselling?...
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How Can Counselling Help?
Counselling can help in a number
of different ways: with emotional functioning; behavioural functioning; relationship management and communication; goal setting
and pursuit; refining problems; identifying solutions; promoting efficient and effective actions; and so on.
Outcomes can include that the client...:
1. ...thinks more clearly, or to better effect;
2. ...manages
their emotions better, in that they no longer over-emote, nor under-emote, relative to their environmental situations;
3. ...behaves more effectively at home and at work;
4. ...feels happier; more alive; more integrated; more
in control; more goal oriented; and so on.
"In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in
every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them".
Thomas Huxley
Counselling people all over the world via the telephone, email and Skype. (Available in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and for English speakers everywhere).
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