About
Tony Hardy
Registered Counsellor
I offer one-to-one counselling sessions where I provide a warm, safe and non-judgmental environment in which you can talk about whatever is troubling you. I prefer to work face-to-face with clients, but I am also able to offer online or telephone counselling if it is not possible to meet in person.
​I work with many of life's difficulties, including depression, anxiety, stress, loss, low confidence and self-esteem, eating disorders, trauma, anger, domestic abuse, childhood and adult sexual abuse and relationship issues.
​I am now also able to offer counselling to couples having trouble in their relationships.
​With individuals I work integratively, coherently pulling together techniques from various counselling approaches. The person-centred approach of Carl Rogers is at the core of my practice. This means the client is at the centre of everything I do. I invite the client to explore themself and their issues and allow them to come to their own realisations and conclusions, at their own pace and depth. The client-counsellor relationship is the single most important aspect of all the work I do with my clients.
My couples work is based on Transactional Analysis. This is based on the idea that two people communicate with each other from one of three ego states: Parent, Adult or Child. The ideal situation is an Adult-to-Adult transaction where both parties have their needs met. Problems occur when transactions take place between mixed ego states, or when the transactions are inconsistent with the ego state the two parties are in.
Experience
I qualified in 2018 with a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling from Coleg Gwent and, as part of my training, I completed over 200 client hours as a volunteer counsellor with a cognitive assistance programme and a mental health charity.
​Since qualifying I have completed around 1500 client hours, working successfully with male and female clients aged from 17 to 75, presenting with depression, anxiety, stress, loss, low confidence and self-esteem, eating disorders, trauma, anger issues, and with survivors of narcissistic, domestic and childhood sexual abuse. I have helped over 30 couples address various relationship issues including communication problems, trust, forgiveness and infidelity.
I studied Systemic Theory and Practice (family therapy) at the University of Bath and in 2021 was awarded a Post-Graduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of South Wales in Newport.
I have regularly attended training events in areas as diverse as online counselling, suicide intervention, safeguarding, domestic abuse, child abuse, couples counselling, eating disorders, narcissism, shame, bereavement, trauma, bullying, menopause and men’s issues.
I am a Registered Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and a qualified Clinical Supervisor.​
Costs
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Free introductory session.
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£60.00 per 1 hour session (individuals) £90 per 1.5-hour session (couples) thereafter.
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Concessions may be available on request.
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Availability
I currently only work at Time Counselling and Wellbeing Centre on Fridays.
Contact
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Email (preferred) – welcome@shine-counselling.co.uk
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Mobile – 07899 985190
Testimonials
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"I felt counselling to be extremely helpful in aiding me to deal with and rationalise day to day problems. I found it an extremely beneficial place to broach, discuss and put to bed many issues I had been dealing with internally."
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"Tony has helped change my life in such a positive way I feel like a tremendous weight has been taken off my shoulders I don’t carry my problems around with me anymore and everyone around me has seen a new positive to me."
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"Every session, even if I didn't feel like going or engaging, ended up being a positive experience and in my eyes a beneficial one.
Tony was fab and has helped me no end. I feel completely different to when I first met him... thank you."
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"Throughout our sessions I felt listened to, supported and purposeful. I feel the work I did with Tony was invaluable in terms of my own self-development, quality of life and moving forward with issues/areas of concern from an early age."
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"This service helped me so much. I have the tools to cope with day to day life as well as big decisions. I have a greater understanding of how I react to situations and am changing for the better."
"Thank you Tony for everything you did to help me at my lowest. I haven’t felt so good about myself in years. You are an amazing person and I’m so happy you worked with me."
