About Us
Welcome
Hello and welcome to my website, my name is Thea Bailey and I am a Person-Centred counsellor. I provide a safe and supportive counselling space for us to work in and ensure I work at a pace that is safe for you. I offer support with stress, anxiety and low mood as well as providing specialised support for major life experiences, such as: relationship breakdown; bereavement; redundancy; changes in life direction; retirement; family issues; becoming a new parent; blended families and step-parenting.
I am a Certified Gottman Therapist having trained with The Gottman Institute in the UK and USA. I use their scientific and evidence based interventions within my couples and family therapy work. This includes The Sound Relationship House and how to avoid The Four Horseman: Criticism; Contempt; Defensiveness and Stonewalling.
As well as working in my own private practice, I have volunteered at my local hospice providing bereavement support, provided counselling to support offenders within the prison service, and I have been a tutor at my local college for Level 1 and Level 2 counselling skills.
I am a member of BICA (British Infertility Counselling Association) and support individuals or couples who are about to start or are going through the process of IVF.
I am a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and I have a BSc (Hons) in Psychology. As a BACP member, I meet the standards of professional practice and knowledge under the BACP Register for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which is approved by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care.
In Bloom Summit 2025
Dr John Gottman &
Dr Julie Schwartz Gottman
