Appointments available daytimes, evenings and Saturdays/ All sessions offered face to face or online.

Relationship Counselling & Couples Counselling

Divorce Counselling

Counselling Students

I work with students completing their Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling as a Supervisor or Therapist.

Welcome

We help people make positive changes. Welcome to SM Counselling. We are a team of dedicated therapists who are passionate about helping both couples and individuals make positive changes in their lives.

We are pleased to offer a number of counselling services. Each service is adapted to every individual or couple, providing support from all backgrounds and experiences.

Our therapy is geared towards promoting communication, collaboration and healing.

Starting counselling is not just an investment into looking into your troubles or challenges but can offer the opportunity to enrich life experiences and understanding who you are.

SM Counselling are based in Bedford and Online. We offer counselling Online and F2F for a number of problems:

Are you struggling with your relationship?
Are you struggling with infidelity in the relationship?
Are you struggling to manage conflict or build a deeper emotional connection?
Are you going through a separation or Divorce Counselling ?
Are you struggling to communicate with each other?
Do you wish you could feel less needy or be more assertive and respectful to yourself?
Perhaps you would like to figure out reasonable boundaries?
Are you looking for counselling for depression or low moods?
Have you overcome an addiction and are struggling to move forward with your life?
Have all of your emotions come back as part of your recovery and you would like somewhere to process these and move forward in life?
Are you struggling with low self-esteem and low self-worth?
Are you struggling with Cultural differences?
Abuse?
Bereavement?

Why choose Us:

Safe and confidential space to help you adapt and cope with the challenges you are facing.
Counselling, Psychotherapy and Online counselling
Supportive individual and relationship counselling.
Supporting people who are feeling overwhelmed with stress, anxiety or depression.
Supporting couples and individuals dealing with COVID and the challenges it has bought to your lives.
NCS and BACP registered therapists.

Testimony

"Before I started my counselling sessions I believed I was beyond anyone's help, mentally crushed, emotionally numb and I couldn't envisage a future with me in it.

I had doubts whether counselling sessions over Zoom would be right for me, but as soon as I 'met' Shirley for my first session I felt reassured, Shirley is a lovely, compassionate, confident and experienced counsellor, and the person centred approach style she used with me was so much better than I had expected.

In my sessions I would frequently jumble my words, sometimes I don't even know if I made any sense at all, that was embarrassing, but Shirley always made me feel safe, comfortable, patient and gave me her full attention. I also appreciated her explaining the what and why and how of anything when I needed it.

It was a curious thing when for the first time in my life I began to recognise those parts of myself from those which had been imposed on me for decades, and slowly I began to see a future 'with me in it'.

Shirley helped me navigate the dark waters of depression, anxiety, domestic abuse and a complicated and painful childhood.

I have so much gratitude for your support through this dark chapter of life, I couldn't see a way through it, a single thankyou doesn't feel big enough and yet it says everything.

-I remember saying how excited I was thinking about the person I would become after working through some of the more difficult emotions.

I could never have expected this bravery and strength to do exactly what we wanted. Just thank you so much for guiding us through so gently. (G&S)-Bedford

-Shirley, we both want to thank you immensely, what seems like a short time really isn't for us because the difference in our relationship is HUGE . (LS- Dunstable)

-We would never have been able to resolves our differences without Shirley.- (JC-Bedford)

-We have learnt how to communicate and listen to each other's needs. - (JO- Bedford)

Offering counselling in Bedford and Online

"A journey for a thousand miles begins with a single step"

Appointments available daytimes, evenings and Saturdays/ All sessions offered face to face or online.

SM Counselling are based in Bedford and Online. We offer counselling Online and F2F for a number of problems:

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