ABC Coaching and Counselling: Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire Download

ABC Coaching and Counselling Services offers professional counselling, psychotherapy and coaching services, in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire; and by telephone, email and Skype/webcam all over the world.

Plus some CPD courses and learning resources for counselling students; postgraduate students; qualified counsellors; and self-help enthusiasts.


The ABC services are based upon the theory and practice of Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT) – which incorporates CBT/REBT, depth psychology and humanistic (client centred) approaches. More specifically, we integrate REBT/CBT, Transactional Analysis (TA), Narrative Therapy, Attachment Theory, Object Relations, Zen Buddhism and Moral Philosophy.

Email counselling for individuals with good English writing skills, who are not seriously emotionally disturbed.

Overview of site content: Counselling and coaching services; and counselling and coaching training courses and informational resources; including video format. Face to face coaching and counselling services; telephone counselling; email counselling; skype counselling; performance coaching; psychotherapy; couples therapy; books on counselling, and on anxiety, anger management, stress management, and happiness. Confidence counselling and coaching: Assertiveness; self confidence; self acceptance. Happiness coaching and positive psychology. Counselling research; and counselling supervision. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT); Rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT); Cognitive emotive narrative therapy (CENT); Transactional analysis (TA); Object relations and attachment theory; Zen Buddhism and moral philosophy. Training for counsellors; Articles and papers on CENT counselling. Counselling diploma assignments. Copy of counsellor’s doctoral thesis. The institute for CENT (cognitive emotive narrative therapy). Pages on attachment theory, meditation, narrative therapy, writing therapy, anger, anxiety, depression, stress, stoic philosophy for counsellors, and much more besides.

We provide high quality help in the form of face-to-face counselling, psychotherapy and coaching – in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire – and by telephone or email counselling all over the world.

In addition to professional counselling and coaching services, we also offer some books, information packs and training courses in counselling and related subjects.

"A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month’s study of books".

Narrative counselling looks at the language of the client and the counsellor in constructing an empowering story: “A narrative approach to counselling is … one that takes seriously all of the dimensions of humanness (intention, relationship, temporality [or time-line], feeling [or emotion] and morality) that are involved in a process of storytelling. More specifically, a narrative approach draws attention to the ways in which people use language and talk to construct their lives. A narrative approach to counselling is one that promotes sensitivity to the use of language on the part both of the person seeking help and of the counsellor who supplies that help”.

I can help you with your emotional, behavioural and relationship problems and difficulties; including: anger, anxiety, depression, stress, self confidence and self esteem; relationship problems, including communication and attachment difficulties.

I can help you to manage your personal and public performance challenges; including: building self confidence, assertive communication skills, making presentations, negotiation skills and stress management.

Learning services and CPD learning resources for counsellors, coaches, psychotherapists, social workers, self-help enthusiasts and interested others…

We offer a range of informational modules and distance-learning resource pages for: counselling students and interested others; postgraduate counselling students; counsellors, psychotherapists and others; self-help enthusiasts and other caring professionals. These resources explore various systems of counselling and therapy (including CBT/REBT, Transactional Analysis (TA), and psychodynamic and client-centred approaches); various theories and philosophies; as well as various emotional, behavioural and relationship problems. These learning resources are a great aid to the study of important aspects of the profession of counselling and psychotherapy; for students and for continuing professional development (CPD); as well as for self-help enthusiasts. Now you can earn a CPD certificate for 30 hours of study of a counselling-related subject.

Our services are based upon the theory and practice of Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT) – which incorporates CBT counseling, depth psychology and humanistic (client centred) approaches to counselling, coaching and therapy.

What is counselling about? “Counselling represents a unique and invaluable form of support with respect to life in complex societies, through making available a relationship which offers a blame-free safe space for reflection on problems in living, and the development of solutions…”

If you are looking for the extensive audio-visual resource that used to be on the bottom of this homepage, then please go to: Sixteen videos on counselling and psychotheapy***

Here are some video clips to help you to get a flavour of the ABC Coaching and Counselling Services approach to counselling and therapy:

1. This first clip is a brief introduction to Dr Jim Byrne, ABC Coaching and Counselling Services, and the counselling services on offer.

2. In this second clip, I describe the importance of taking responsibility for your own life, as the essential foundation for any form of successful counselling process.

3. Here is a brief introduction to Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT), which is the form of counselling and therapy created and used by Dr Jim Byrne. There are at least 16 videos on the 16 Counselling Videos page.

4. This is Part 2 of ‘What is Counselling?’ It was produced by me to update my statements about the way I think of counselling. In particular, I mention the importance of Attachment Theory, and the counsellor being emotionally available to the client.

Multimodal and integrative approaches to (attachment) counselling are likely to prove more effective than those that emphasize one or other modality – thinking, feeling, acting, hearing, seeing, touching, or speaking. “More than a hundred years ago, Freud argued that the brain develops through experience, and that it may change as a result of psychotherapy; ever since, various approaches to psychotherapy (and counselling) have competed, each laying claim to being the most effective. It would, however, be more productive to develop multimodal intervention forms based on principles that incorporate neurobiological growth, regulation, and integration”.

Susan Hart (2011) The Impact of Attachment. New York: W.W. Norton and Company. Page 312. (66)

Humans are creatures of habit. Once we develop a set of beliefs…

ABC Coaching and Counselling: Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire

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