Gary Tomkins is an Individual Psychotherapist and Counsellor in Frome who helps with
Anxiety, Depression, Bereavement, Purpose and meaning in your life, Relationship difficulties and a wide range of other issues
Counselling
Counselling helps relieve emotional distress, modify ways of thinking and acting, and seeks solutions to problems in a person’s life. Such problems include anxiety, depression, grief, dissatisfaction in work and life, as well as personal, family and work relationships. I provide a warm, empathic, authentic and non-judgemental space where you can talk confidentially about the issues you face and help support you in coming to terms with them. I offer a free initial session for us to meet, see how we get along and explore the relevance of us working together.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy addresses emotional crises and mental health problems along with existential issues such as a sense of purpose and meaning, our fundamental aloneness and our inevitable mortality and that of others we love. Psychotherapy often involves exploring our past history including relationships with parents (and siblings), developmental failures, major life events and traumas. Being understood and accepted for who you really are in the psychotherapeutic relationship, helps you overcome negative behaviour patterns and debilitating feelings (e.g. anxiety and depression), allowing you to move more healthily and soulfully in your life, now and in the future.
Supervision
Supervision is for counsellors and psychotherapists wanting professional support for themselves and to enhance their practice through mutual reflection on, and consideration of, their client work. I also offer supervision and psychological support / input to alternative health practitioners
Meditation
Meditation is a way of reducing stress, finding inner peace as well as greater intimacy with others. I teach a technique from my Core Process Pyschotherapy training which is very similar to Mindfulness or Zen meditation which is open... and not boring! The practice brings awareness to the present moment and can be shared with another to deepen personal relationships.
Dreamwork
Dreamwork helps us understand our deeper psychic or unconscious processes and is one of the cornerstones of my psychotherapy work. I believe dreamwork is so valuable in making a soulful life that I offer one-off sessions for people who want to explore a significant dream without having to make the commitment to ongoing therapy.