About Me
Chris Rudyard - MNCS Accredited, NCS Registered, ACCPH Senior Member, fully insured and qualified.
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Professional Standards Authority registered | IFS Lv 1, 2, 3 & Masterclasses | Dip Lv.4 in the Theory & Practice of Counselling | Diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy | Diploma in Neuro-Linguistic Programming | Cert in NLP Professional Coaching | Post Graduate Cert Lv7/Masters Level Cognitive Behavioural Therapy/CBT (inc 3rd Wave) & Person Centred therapies |
Cert. Eye Movement Integration/EMI Therapist Lv 1 & 2 + Supervision
Cert BSP/Brainspotting Phase 1, 2, 3 & Masterclass | Cert BSP for Addictions | Cert Solution Focused Counselling Skills | Cert in Hypno-Psychotherapy | Cert Ego State Therapy with EMDR | Cert EMDR 1, 2 & 3 | Cert in Supervision approved by British Psychological Society.
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I'm a counsellor and psychotherapist, trained in many approaches to psychotherapy. I started supporting people who experienced and injured by trauma in 2002. Since then the field of neuroscience has made huge advances in terms of treatment, and the understanding of trauma. This has greatly influenced my practice and approach to therapy.
I've worked in paid/employed capacities for many organizations. I found I didn't like working for organizations for many reasons. Something I found was that they didn't adapt, they were stuck to old, rigid and unhelpful ways of thinking and supporting people. I now regularly work with people based in UK & Europe, providing therapy both online and in person.
From the start of my career I found that people would tell me about their trauma, maybe not straight away, but we'd get to it. Although counselling seemed to help, I felt there was much they were left with. For many people isolation and understanding would improve, but they still felt the acuteness of the trauma, people were still 'triggered' and left unhealed. I found working alongside therapists and working with therapists personally that there was an element of shaming and arrogance within these therapies, which are the very things a lot of my clients are coming to me to help recover from.
CBT seems to be a somewhat floored approach suggesting: it's the way they're thinking about it, or that that a person is not doing enough to change. Newer evidence shows, healing does not come from the 'way we think' or pushing ourselves to do more...
Person Centred therapy has a belief that the relationship with the therapist should be enough to facilitate change, but I found it only helped some people, and talking about something was not necessarily the answer to healing. Person Centred counselling seemed a very cognitive approach to me. People say it helped them understand, but it didn't change the internal triggers.
Neuroscience suggests that in trauma, what helps is something to do with 'memory consolidation' - the brain re-processing something and allowing it to move to the 'back of the mind'. Only certain therapies have this component, and even less therapies have a healing element.
Just because a therapist is 'trauma-informed', doesn't mean that they are trained in therapies designed to treat trauma. Psychotherapy that heals trauma needs to create an internal 'dual-awareness', it needs to be a heavily mindful approach, that incorporates the body/somatic.
My clients have been from many walks of life. I've worked with people with a 'dual-diagnosis', and seen many people recover from their history.
