Nat Creighton Counselling

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About the Therapist

About the therapist:

I have been a counsellor for 8 years. Before starting my own counselling practice, I was part of the counselling team at The Rainbow Project. I supported LGBTQ+ people and those who are questioning with issues around sexuality or gender, often including feelings of shame, depression and anxiety, and any other issues that were having a negative impact on life.

Working with people over the years, I know that LGBTQ+ people often have negative experiences trying to access help for their mental health. With this in mind I set up Nat Creighton Counselling with a focus on providing safe, inclusive, accepting and LGBTQ knowledgeable counselling.

Outside this work, I am an allotment owner and an artist. I put as much value on gaining insight into human nature and what I can learn from artists, authors and songwriters as I do from learning counselling theory

Sexual identity:

Queer

Gender identity: Male

Gender history: Not as assigned at birth

Non-monogamy: No

Intersex: No

Trans: Yes

Neurodivergent: No

Qualifications - Links to websites:

Pg Dip. Counselling & Therapeutic Communication (Distinction) https://www.bacp.co.uk/therapists/377049/nat-creighton/belfast-bt9

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award

Experience and approach:

I am trained in person-centred and psychodynamic styles of counselling. This means that your experiences and perceptions of the world will be at the heart of our work together. I will work to understand what life is like for you and I won’t make assumptions or judgements. We may explore your life experiences and try to understand factors that may be contributing to your current difficulties. I take a non-pathologizing approach to mental health. I work with the person rather than with any diagnosis believing that we all are doing the best we can within the environment and resources available. I offer a highly skilled, ethical and professional setting for counselling to take place. It will be relaxed, safe, confidential and sometimes creative. I will offer you time, empathy and respect. I will be present and attentive and I will listen to you without judgement. My own life’s journey has been far from straight forward, and that has allowed me to examine how the (often) invisible pressures and restrictive boxes/categories of society can stop people expressing themselves in ways that make them feel happy and fulfilled. Combining my life’s experience with my counselling training creates a unique and helpful perspective from which to help clients.

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