ONLINE AND IN-PERSON BACP Accredited
PSYCHOTHERAPY & CounsellING in SURREY
Welcome, and thank you for visiting.
I’m Adrian Stearman, a BACP-accredited counsellor based in Guildford, Surrey. I offer a calm, confidential space—helping people make sense of difficult feelings and move towards lasting change.
I offer both short and long-term counselling in person and online, drawing on my experience in private practice and NHS primary care.
I am a recognised provider for Bupa, Aviva and Vitality Health.
Areas I work with include:
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Relationship challenges (past or present)
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Anxiety, stress and overwhelm
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Low mood and depression
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Addiction and compulsive behaviours
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Anger and emotional reactivity
- Working with neurodiversity diagnosis or traits
THERAPEUTIC COUNSELLING
Whether you are struggling to cope with specific issues and need support, or if you want to explore and reappraise your life in some way, counselling can be a helpful and healing approach to change. I offer counselling in the Guildford and Godalming areas and also offer remote availability. Counselling can help gain insight and self-acceptance, and provides space to think about your thoughts and feelings. This is much easier in the safety and confidentiality of a therapeutic relationship.
Perhaps you feel ‘stuck’ and seek to work with problematic patterns of relating to others. Maybe there are patterns that keeps repeating themselves despite your best efforts to feel or behave differently each time. Our histories, cultural and family backgrounds effect how we show up in the here and now of today. Counselling can help to shift our experience of life and the people, places and things that constantly trip us up.
If you have decided you want to explore counselling, or revisit it again. You will find an introduction to my approach below. For further information or any questions, please do get in touch.
I look forward to hearing from you.
THE Integrative APPROACH
I therefore take an interest in and continue to develop my understanding of what it means to be human. In the context of psychotherapy; existential, transpersonal, analytic and humanistic approaches to self-understanding. I am particularly influenced by attachment theory and the view that our earliest attachments to others play a large part in how we relate to others and the world as we grow.
Being an integrative therapist essentially means I am able to think and work in an open and receptive way. This can include the body, mind and spirit. My goal is to follow you wherever your process takes you. A central concern is the nature of the embodied relationship in which the two of us can grow together, and how this reflects the themes and issues of your life.
Following someone’s spontaneous process can end up in some unusual places; and often the session will be spent sitting and talking together. In the way that most people expect. Other possibilities include (by mutual agreement) working with breath; with visualisation, dreams or fantasy and movement.
Counselling or Psychotherapy?
A widely held view is that a therapist can only work at depth with a client to the extent that they have worked at depth on themselves (both during and after their training). It is not so much the qualification or title that is important therefore, as the quality, openness and honesty of the relationship that you are offered.
Male or female Counsellor?
This may change over time of course. It is not uncommon for someone to seek a therapist of one gender for a period and then depending on what has arisen in their own process, another gender at a later stage.