Denise Winn

Hello. I love to help people move on with their lives quickly and hope to have the chance to help you. I have been a psychotherapist/counsellor for over 20 years, using a solution-focused approach (human givens).

The term human givens refers to the givens of human nature – our essential emotional needs and the innate resources we have to help us fulfil them. It is when needs are not well met, or resources are misused without our realising it, that we can struggle with mental health. So I don’t look to find what is ‘wrong’ with people but what is not working for them in their lives. I can help you get your life working for you as quickly as possible, by teaching you relevant skills and techniques, providing new empowering understandings and helping you focus on what you want to have happen, rather than worrying and embedding difficulties deeper.

One of my special skills is a trauma treatment (rewind) which neutralises the emotion attached to something deeply upsetting that happened in the past, thus stopping it from getting in the way of your life any more. I work with adults, from young through to older, and have a side specialty in helping people in the creative arts, including singers and musicians and film students.

I am also a published author, having written many books on psychology and mental health, and over the course of my career have also been a journalist and editor, specialising in psychology and wellbeing.