"Richards caring and insightful support each week helped me to cope with a very stressful and anxious period over several months and identify underlying patterns that were holding me back"
Hello and welcome. I'm Richard and my outlook towards therapy is uncomplicated: We explore your past to understand your present to make way for a better future.
Together, we'll untangle the complications of your history, straighten your story and encourage your self discovery. We go from arrested development to healthy living. We heal beyond our history.
I w...
"Richards caring and insightful support each week helped me to cope with a very stressful and anxious period over several months and identify underlying patterns that were holding me back"
Hello and welcome. I'm Richard and my outlook towards therapy is uncomplicated: We explore your past to understand your present to make way for a better future.
Together, we'll untangle the complications of your history, straighten your story and encourage your self discovery. We go from arrested development to healthy living. We heal beyond our history.
I work in what’s called a psychodynamic way: Psycho = Mind. Dynamic = Movement. We do some movement of the mind…
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My Method
Insightful Therapy: We work with some depth, uncovering patterns and emotions. Healing begins with insight and awareness. Together, we make the unconscious - conscious.
Compassion: I listen without judgement. My silence is your space. Your pain is our starting point. Therapy is our trusting relationship that we co-create and our relationship ultimately heals.
Virtual Appointments: Whether via video, text, or phone, I'm here with you. No office walls - just a healing connection, from one human being to another.
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Healing Wisdom
Pain isn't the enemy; it's the catalyst. We come to therapy because we’re suffering. So instead of perpetuating our own suffering - Let's transform the suffering into growth. Because the only constant is change.
Trauma is buried, but it’s buried alive… Healing is messy, uncomfortable and painful and we learn the most from what we are taught to see as failures. Together, we will navigate psychological wounds, unresolved conflicts and buried emotions. Enabling us to experience, resolve and accept reality. So we can move on.
“Helpful, insightful and extremely easy to talk to”
"Thought provoking and thought resolving"
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Why Choose Richard?
Holistic Approach: Mind, body, soul, spirit and the symbolic, we address it all. Through our work together we come to see symptoms as manifestations of reactions to adversity and our work re-conceptualises and transcends these symptoms. Breakdowns are breakthroughs and our triggers are portals to accepting a deeper understanding of our true self.
I’m not as interested in knowing what's ‘wrong’ with you — as I am in taking the time to learn more about what happened to you and where you are hurting. Where you want to become unstuck and where in your life you want to progress.
Safe and Explorative Space: Vulnerability is our strength. Here, you are seen and heard. I’m really interested in helping you to discover your own personal meaning in your life experiences, memories, dreams, hopes and desires. You are so much more than your name, religion, job title, possessions, thoughts and opinions of others, including your family, and you are more than your adaptive self as a result of your history.
Maybe you’re not all you could be… Maybe your not what happened to you and maybe your what you choose to become...
Ancient Insights, Modern Tools: Wisdom meets technology. This is traditional therapy through a modern platform. Freud meets FaceTime!
Your trusted ally: I’m not here to fix you, I walk beside you, not ahead. Healing is our shared journey.
Let's rewrite your story and discover your truth.
Healing awaits…
If you're ready to embark on a journey of healing and self-discovery, I invite you to take the first step and schedule an initial appointment with me where this will be a really good time for us to find out who we are, see what our work is going to be about and to see how we come to feel about working together.
Do something today your future self will thank you for.
I look forward to meeting with you.
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Richard Cox, Reg, MBACP
Clients would describe me as formal, direct and flexible
“To work in the dark, you must be able to hold your own light, and still be intimate with the darkness" ― Thomas Lloyd Qualls
"There is nothing wrong with you. You have patterns to unlearn, new behaviors to embody and wounds to heal. But there is nothing wrong with the core of you and who you are. You are unlearning generations of harm and remembering love. It takes time..."
My commitment in service to you: I am committed to providing excellence in therapy as an experienced counselling practitioner and I am dedicated to maintaining a consistent & reliable practice.
Experience: In my practice, I have had the privilege of working with clients who have experienced the profound and enduring effects of early 'psychological wounding'. This is what is known as 'Non-Recent' Abuse and Trauma. As a result I am currently becoming more experienced in working with what fits the criteria for Dissociative Disorders and OSDD. Further to this I find myself working with clients who are anxious, addicted to something, or someone and they may be navigating challenging family and relationship problems, or they may be experiencing intimacy related issues. These issues have been deeply rooted in their ways of coping in response to past difficulties.
Area of Expertise
Qualifications
Work Experience
I will help with
Anxiety
Violence and Abuse
Relationships
Sexuality
Trauma
My Therapy Approaches are
Existential
Jungian
Psychoanalytic
Psychodynamic
I am qualified in
BSc (Hons) Counselling Psychology BPS Accred.
University of Derby
United Kingdom
Sep 2014 - Feb 2013
Level 3 Diploma Health & Nursing (Access)
Barnsley College
United Kingdom
Sep 2006 - Jun 2007
3 CPD Certificates in - Body Image & Perception, ED in Men RCGP Accred, ED All Ages All Genders
First Steps ED
United Kingdom
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
How to do counselling online
BACP & The Open University
United Kingdom
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Safeguarding Adults
Embrace Learning
United Kingdom
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Keeping clients at the centre: Inform your practice with the latest research
BACP
United Kingdom
May 2020 - May 2020
Archetypal Psychology, Bringing Light to Dark Places, Psyche & Soma Workshop
Invicta Therapy
United Kingdom
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
Specialist Eating Disorders Training for Professionals (5.5CPD Certified Hours)
First Steps ED
United Kingdom
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Level 1 and 2 in Domestic Abuse (1.5 CPD Certified Hours)
ME Learning for High Peak Women's Aid / Crossroads Derbyshire
