At ABC Coaching and Counselling Services, we offer hundreds of pages of free information, and more than sixty free videos, on various models, theories and aspects of counselling, coaching and psychotherapy.
We also offer professional counselling and coaching services, in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire; and all over the world via the telephone and email services.
ABC Coaching and Counselling Services has two main divisions: the counselling division and the coaching division. The counselling division is run by Dr Jim Byrne, the creator of Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT); and the coaching division is run by Renata Taylor-Byrne, who has created her own form of confidence building training based on personal and public performance coaching.
CENT coaching and counselling systems are derived from a fusion of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT); Transactional Analysis (TA); Narrative therapy; Zen Buddhist and Stoic philosophy; Attachment Theory; and Moral philosophy.
CENT coaching and counselling services are available in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, UK. Both the counselling and coaching divisions are committed to providing high quality free resources, including free counselling and coaching video clips and information pages.
Welcome to the home of CENT counselling and coaching: the system that integrates the best available philosophies and psychologies of personal change, self improvement and transformation.
Jim provides counselling services, face to face in Hebden Bridge; and by telephone and email all over the world. He also provides free counselling information, including counselling videos and descriptions of counselling models…
Renata offers help with all forms of personal and professional performance challenges – including public speaking, confidence building, goal achievement, self assertion, and so on…
We offer hundreds of pages of free information, and more than sixty free videos, on various models, theories and aspects of counselling, coaching and psychotherapy.
We also offer professional counselling and coaching services, in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire; and all over the world via the telephone and email services.
Teaching the client about the nature of love is one of the most difficult challenges a counsellor faces: "There are no short-cuts to understanding what love is. If someone has been deprived of the crudest infantile experience of love then he might be permanently crippled or, at least, have great difficulty in learning later what the word can mean. In learning what it symbolizes, I need to re-write my autobiography over and over again. To grow is to re-organize the past now and to move into the future".
(a) Telephone counselling in the USA, Canada, Ireland, UK, Australia and New Zealand; and for English speakers all over the world;
*Update*: Jim Byrne’s Counselling Blog is updated; Monday 6th May, 2013: A counsellor’s reflections…***
*Commencing Wednesday 13th March*: Free counselling sessions for unemployed individuals in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, on Wednesday mornings; plus low-cost counselling sessions for low-paid individuals.***
Here’s a little video introductionto the kinds of things you could gain from consulting me in Hebden Bridge (or by telephone or email):
The main aim of this book is to spread happiness. Not just any old hedonistic happiness, excitement, or thrill seeking; but rather pro-social, moral, sustainable happiness, in line with the insights of Positive psychology, Buddhist psychology, Stoic philosophy and various forms of Rational and Narrative therapy, and the two major systems of writing therapy (the scientific and the artistic).
In this book you will find a twelve week program which is designed to help you to manage your life in such a way that you can reduce your unhappiness and increase your happiness. You will learn simple techniques that can produce almost immediate improvements that will astound you.
If you work on your emotions in counselling, you can become more emotionally literate: "To be emotionally literate is to be able to handle emotions in a way that improves your personal power and improves the quality of life around you. Emotional Literacy improves relationships, creates loving possibilities between people, makes cooperative work possible, and facilitates the feeling of community".
Third revised and expanded edition: 2012. The purpose of this book is to teach the reader what stress is, and how to combat it. It contains eighteen techniques for reducing physical and mental strain, and to enhance environmental control. It is written in the form of a self-help manual, with spaces for self-reflection exercises. However, it could also be used by counsellors, counselling students, and interested others, as a means to learn, understand and present the CENT approach to Stress Management in counselling, coaching and therapy contexts. If you need to control your stress, or you want to help others to do so, then this book will help you. For further information on this book, go to Chill Out: How to Control Your Stress Level…
(k) A CENT paper on how to use writing therapy to resolve the trauma arising out of a failed marriage in the past, using writing therapy.
(l) A CENT paper on how to use writing therapy to resolve problems of shame about physical cowardice, and to resolve an unhappy father-son relationship.
In this ebook, I want to do two things: (1) To present a basic understanding of the Rational-Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT/CBT) approach to dealing with anxiety’; and (2) To provide a set of exercises for you to do so that you can learn how to analyze your problems with anxiety; identify solutions; and implement those solutions so as to eliminate your anxiety. In that way, you can become your own “counsellor”, in the area of anxiety and fear, because you can learn to fix your own emotional and behavioural problems.
CENT e-book No.2: CENT Counselling: How to apply Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy in Counselling and Self-help, by Dr Jim Byrne
This is a popular introduction to the theory and practice of Cognitive Emotive Narrative Therapy (CENT), which is a highly effective new philosophy of life, and psychological system of counselling, therapy and self-help. CENT integrates some of the core concepts and models of Rational Emotive… Read more…