Tel: 0780 175 6808

Email: contact@embrace-psych.co.uk

EMBRACE PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES LTD

Embracing Life…Embracing Hope…Embracing Change

We are HCPC-Registered & BPS-Chartered clinical and counselling psychologists.

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At Embrace Psychological Services Ltd, we offer clinical and counselling psychology services from HCPC-Registered (Health and Care Professions Council) and BPS-Chartered (British Psychological Society) clinical and counselling psychologists.

We also offer Cognitive Analytic Therapy services from a ACAT-accredited (Association of Cognitive Analytic Therapy) Cognitive Analytic Therapy practitioner and Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy from a Level 3 trained EMDR practitioner.

We specialise in the assessment, consultation and therapy for individuals with a range of psychological difficulties including:

  • Stress
  • Anxiety, panic attacks and phobias
  • Depression
  • Poor confidence and low self-esteem
  • Loss and bereavement
  • Relationship difficulties
  • Interpersonal and personality difficulties
  • Trauma and abuse


We also specialise in working with people who experience chronic pain, chronic fatigue and other health problems.

Services also offered include clinical supervision, teaching and training therapies for CAT practitioner trainees.

Embrace Psychological Services is also a recognised BUPA, Axa-PPP, AVIVA, SimplyHealth, WPA and CIGNA provider.

Dr Helen Pickering

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Dr Helen Pickering

Clinical Psychologist
CAT Practitioner
& Director

Dr Helen Pickering is a clinical psychologist, professionally qualified since 2001, working in the NHS in the fields of adult mental health, physical disability/neuro-rehabilitation and forensics since 1995.

Helen completed ACAT North’s Cognitive Analytic Therapy practitioner training in 2007. She established Embrace Psychological Services in 2012 in order to offer high quality therapy to people who wish to seek therapy privately.

Helen abides by the professional codes of conduct and ethics of BPS, HCPC and ACAT. She attends regular clinical supervision sessions in order to maintain the quality of the therapy offered and keeps up to date with advances in clinical psychology and psychotherapy by attending relevant continued professional development events.

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Dr Sarah Mills

Counselling Psychologist
EMDR therapist

Dr Sarah Mills is a qualified counselling psychologist who works with people aged 17 years or over that are suffering from a variety of psychological difficulties, including, but not limited to: anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive compulsive disorder, relationship difficulties, stress and eating disorders.

Sarah has a particular interest in supporting people who have experienced a traumatic life event and wrote her doctoral thesis on the most efficacious treatment modalities for PTSD.

Over the past eleven years she has worked in a number of NHS settings including Eating Disorder Services and Primary and Secondary Care services in the North West. Sarah has also been a doctoral supervisor for the Counselling Psychology course in Wolverhampton and most recently developed her own private practice based in Cheshire.

Sarah is a practitioner of Eye Movement De-sensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness Training. She is able to offer appointments on Friday.

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We've Helped People Just Like You

I felt comfortable with Helen the first time I met her. She is friendly and very professional and has made me look at and understand things in a different way. Her workplace has always been warm and welcoming and somewhere I have felt relaxed and able to express my feelings. I would recommend her highly.
NickyNorthwich
When I first contacted Helen I was at my lowest ebb. I felt no self-worth and suffered with anxiety and depression. I felt safe in my sessions with Helen, who was not judgmental and worked through my issues with me at my pace. She taught me techniques and coping strategies that, for me, had an immediate and lasting effect. It may be a cliché but it was as if a weight was lifted from my shoulders. I owe a debt of gratitude to Helen that mere words cannot explain.
Dawn Holmes Chapel
Talking through my problems with a skilled professional who was not judgmental helped massively. It's not easy, but it helped me to understand why I thought the way I did and gave me techniques to change this.
Dave
Many thanks for providing me with a CAT Personal Reformulation session – it has been both personally and professionally rewarding and extremely helpful. I have made some changes personally and am much more aware of the TPP in my work as a team member and therapist.
Dr Lesley TaylorClinical Psychologist, Stockport
A massive thank you for the last 16 weeks. When I think back to the person who walked through your door, I wouldn't recognise him today. For the first time in a long time I'm looking forward to my future.
RickNorthwich
Supervision with Dr Pickering was extremely beneficial in a case that I was struggling to make sense of. I would definitely use her services again.
Dr SEducational Psychologist
Thank you does not seem to say enough for all your help getting me back on my feet and back to feeling human again. All I can say is a very, very big thank you.
LorraineWinsford
The opportunity to really consider how I felt or was feeling is a very valuable one. It is hard on one's own to ask the right questions and consider an answer, but when presented by you, and given time and quiet to mull things over, it was sometimes cathartic and always worthwhile. Sometimes what life throws at us is too much to cope with alone. Here there is a space and a non judgmental therapist to help sort out the mess and to help us to manage situations that we cannot change.
Kate
I meet fortnightly with Helen for CAT supervision of my NHS caseload. I have found her input and guidance incredibly useful in helping me to hone specialist therapist skills and continue my professional development.
Dr NClinical Psychologist
I went to see Helen when I couldn’t function normally anymore and my life appeared to be falling apart. Helen helped me to understand what was happening and why, and worked with me to piece my life back together. The life I have now is even better than before my illness. I have my confidence back and an amazing toolkit full of strategies to support me whatever life brings. Helen creates a safe environment where trust is implicit. An amazing, non judgmental professional who I will be eternally grateful to.
MichelleWarrington
Helen was warm, empathic and professional, taking time to understand my experiences and the issues most important to me. Helen’s open and non judgmental manner allowed me to reflect upon my own ‘patterns’ to make some valuable changes in the way that I think about things.
BeckyTrainee Clinical Psychologist
When I came to see Helen, my anxiety had reached an unprecedented level and I felt I just could not cope anymore. Helen gave me all the tools I needed to deal with my issues – from explaining to me the physiological symptoms caused by panic, to giving me “homework” to work on in-between sessions. She was always encouraging and reassuring. I have come a long way and am so grateful to her.
AlexNorthwich
I saw Helen for a 16 session training CAT. I was in a place where I was very sad and dissatisfied with my life and felt very stuck and pessimistic about change. Helen was authentic and compassionate allowing me to feel safe and for us to build a relationship where she was able to challenge me and encourage me to think, feel and behave differently. My therapy with Helen has impacted significantly and has enabled me to make changes in my life needed for me to be happy. I highly recommend her.
Dr HClinical Psychologist/CAT practitioner

Office Location

48 High Street,
Weaverham,
Cheshire,
CW8 3HB

Opening Hours

By Appointment only

Contact Details

Tel: 0780 175 6808
Email: contact@embrace-psych.co.uk

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Embrace Psychological Services Ltd, 48 High Street, Weaverham. CW8 3HB
Company Registered No: 10927722

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