"You find the path by walking it."
Maya Angelou
Talking Therapy
Sharing the journey
Talking is an effective therapy for a range of common problems. Whether you are coping with stress, anxiety or depression, or facing difficulties at work or in your personal life, setting aside time to actively focus on improving your situation with a psychotherapist is a step in the right direction.
Walking Therapy
Healing in the natural environment
Walking improves mental health. Being outdoors has a positive impact on emotional wellbeing. The natural environment and exercise are a mood lifting combination that reduce stress, anxiety and depression and increase self-esteem and cognitive functioning.
Wild Counselling
A fresh approach to psychotherapy
Wild Counselling draws on the benefits of walking and talking to find innovative solutions to psychological problems. Using a diverse range of environments to hold sessions, and adopting a sense of freedom for clients to work in a way that helps them best, Wild Counselling will help you step out of negative spaces and into greater contentment, resilience and improved relationships.
Our Services
Walk and talk therapy
Walking improves mental health
Our walk and talk sessions maximise the therapeutic effects of being active in a neutral outdoor environment to fuel therapeutic change. Sessions begin at a mutually agreed starting point and follow a circular route, ending back at the start after 50 minutes. We offer ‘walk and talk’ sessions in natural and urban environments.
Person Centred Psychotherapist
Integrative Psychotherapist
Person Centred Psychotherapist
About Us
Helen Strutt and Jayne Desmond are experienced BACP registered practitioners based in South East London who share a passion for practising therapy in innovative and refreshing ways. We have particular expertise in working with anger, anxiety, bereavement, depression, divorce and separation, grief, panic attacks, sadness, stress, the impact of trauma, relationship and sexual issues, and familial and work-related problems. We welcome all clients and are happy to make adjustments to cater for individual circumstances, including tailoring our walk and talk sessions to meet specific needs.
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What our clients say about...
Walk and Talk Therapy:
“I think the walk and talk aspect of therapy accelerated the benefit I was able to get from the therapeutic process”.
“Being in nature is something that’s helpful to me, along with the ever-changing view and breeze. It somehow helps put things into perspective too. It’s a democratic and equal space too”.
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Our therapy:
“It increased my self confidence and allowed me to be more comfortable in my own skin”.
“It helped initially to sort the chaos in my mind and begin to slow down huge anxious waves that had started to overwhelm me. Then I started to achieve some clarity about what was happening”.
“It has helped me live more comfortably with things that happened to me and granted me greater perspective on different relationships and events”.
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Our therapists:
“She was kind, determined to help, balanced, realistic and accepting; a real partner in the work that was required”.
“Her calmness, knowledge, analysis and encouragement was what I needed”.
“I felt I was in the hands of a very good steward and guide. I felt fully accepted”.
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Contact Us
To find out more about the psychotherapy we offer in South East London, including establishing how a walk and talk component could work for you, please contact us.
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