Claire E. Dyson Ba (Hons), Mbacp (Accred) Email & Phone Number

Weybridge

I offer a non-judgemental breathing space in which you can put the World on hold and, with no one making demands on you, reflect, pinpoint what’s really troubling you, get to the root cause then choose what, if anything, you want to do about it.I can help with many issues particularly high anxiety, working with couples on their relationship and with those baffled by uncontrollable overeating that, whilst not a full blown eating disorder, feels compulsive, addictive even, with names like comfort eating, emotional eating or binge eating.I'm an “integrative-relational counsellor” meaning once I've met you, I pick the best from several types of therapy (buzzwords like CBT, person-centred, humanistic, psychodynamic, mindfulness etc) to make a blend tailored to you rather than pushing everyone through the same old sheep dip regardless of preferences or needs.Research shows of all the factors determining how well therapy goes our therapeutic relationship accounts for 30% of likely success, hence “relational” and my degree taught me how to make best use of our relationship.I run a private practice from my base in Weybridge. Before training as a counsellor I worked for 28 years in the private sector so I have insight into the stresses and strains of balancing work and life as well as experience of the ups and downs of life generally.I have worked as part of the teams delivering counselling to patients at two busy Surrey GP surgeries and I work with The Counselling Partnership, a BACP accredited charity offering counselling for anxiety and depression in North Surrey.It is hard for us to get the measure of each other from just a photo and a profile of me and an email or a phone call from you. I would suggest that you give me a ring please on 07950 986 085 to discuss whether an initial "chemistry test" session (which is not chargeable) might be a helpful next step for you, thank you.I look forward to hearing from you. Warmly, Claire© 2016 Untangle Your Life Ltd

Weybridge, Surrey

The Understanding your Eating Programme has been developed from research carried out by Julia Buckroyd, Emeritus Professor of Counselling of the University of Hertfordshire and Honorary Fellow of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists. The Programme is designed for people who are aware that their overeating is driven by something other than hunger and suspect it may be emotional.The Understanding Your Eating Programme does not tell you what to eat or how much. We think you know that already. Instead it helps you to explore whether you are eating to deal with your feelings. Are you using food to manage your life? If you are, it teaches you a different way of getting through the day.The Programme has two parts:An Introduction designed to help you discover whether you are an “emotional eater” and to teach you how you can start to use other ways of managing your life. The Introduction gives you the basics and consists of 5 sessions of 1 hour (individual) or 1.5 hours (group) running over consecutive weeks so you have the opportunity to first observe yourself then apply what you have learned. I deliver the Introduction 1 to 1 if you prefer 100% confidentiality or in groups of 4 - 6 if you'd rather have the support of others during this process.Nine free standing modules covering subjects which may be of particular relevance to you in a lot more detail than the Introduction. These are optional, it is up to you if you want to do any of these. The modules are: Emotional Eating, Feelings, Motivation and Empowerment for Change, Food monitoring and choice, Activity, Self Nuture, Relationships, Self Esteem and Body Esteem.Please click the link below to find out more.

Weybridge

We are a full therapeutic service of experienced, qualified Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Psychiatrists, Counsellors and Coaches, serving Weybridge, East Molesey, Guildford and surrounding areas in Surrey. Our ethos is to enable people to help themselves. We can all have difficulties in everyday life and encounter problems that we simply find hard to cope with alone. You may feel worried, anxious, low, confused, isolated or experiencing relationship issues. You might be suffering from feelings of low self esteem or low self confidence.You may have been diagnosed with anxiety, generalised anxiety disorder, depression, or low mood.At times like these it can be helpful to talk things over in confidence with an experienced counsellor, psychotherapist, psychologist or psychiatrist who will enable you to explore your concerns in a safe, contained environment.The aim of The Practice is to offer you a confidential space in which to be heard in order to develop appropriate strategies and techniques to cope with your life difficulties in a more effective way.HOW WE HELPPsychotherapy & CounsellingChild & Family CounsellingAddiction Recovery PackagesCoachingMindfulnessAbuseAddictionADHDAnger ManagementAnxietyAutismBereavementFamily/Child Related IssuesDepressionEating DisordersGamblingGender IssuesLife Limiting IllnessObsessive Compulsive DisorderPhobiasRelationshipsSelf HarmSexuality IssuesStressTrauma

The Big Blue Box Limited focuses entirely upon “unlocking potential” – providing coaching to key individuals within organisations. I find new Clients for the business.

Walton On Thames

The Counselling Partnership is a registered charity (number 1076244) founded by a group of local people and counsellors with the aim of providing affordable counselling services to the community which is accessible to all. It is The Counselling Partnership's believe that counselling should not be a privilege so a sliding scale fee structure, funded places and a Contribution Assistance Scheme are on offer.The Counselling Partnership offers an affordable one-to-one counselling service in and around the Borough of Elmbridge in Surrey with venues in Cobham, Walton on Thames, Chertsey and Woking.The Counselling Partnership aim is to help clients:Gain a greater understanding of their issuesFeel empoweredImprove communication skillsImprove self-confidence and self-esteemIncrease independenceFind employmentAddress depression and anxiety symptomsThe Counselling Partnership is an accredited member of the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and as such is bound by its Ethical Framework and its Complaints Procedure.

Part of a new team of two tasked by MWB's Business Development Director with getting new business centres at least 85% occupied at opening or as soon as possible after opening. My first assignment was a 250 workstation building in London Bridge. We opened at 100% after I cold called a local Occupier who took 174 workstations in a deal worth £5.6m with the balance sold by a colleague and then those also sold to my Client once my colleague's Client moved out taking the deal up to £8.7m - not a bad result for a cold call! Euston Fitzrovia was next with 2 new Clients found on cold calling worth a total of £186k and £549k then onto Liverpool Street. Had the 7th floor / 75 w/s under offer, I am sitting in front of the CEO for him to sign and then he needs it two weeks earlier than we can make it ready and kicks it into touch. Liverpool Street subsequently filled with two Clients, one placed by Business Development Director (took 3 floors) and the other by MWB Corporate Account manager (took the remaining floor). Bank followed, done as a team effort because by then high occupancy in our City buildings meant the indiginous sales team had little to sell. Between new centre openings (they don't always run one after the other, particularly now the recession has slowed things down) I join either the West End or City Sales teams so I can do deals and earn money for MWB and Dyson plc. Most recent significant deal was 83 workstations, contract value of £250.1k. By the Autumn of 2009 the bottom had fallen out of the serviced office market and, with quality now much better in all competing business centres, MWB’s “edge” was gone and each deal became a race to the bottom on price. With commissions harder to earn and much smaller (they are linked to deal value) and my husband wanting to build a bigger Client base in anticipation of the economy staying tough for a long time, I moved to his coaching company.

At the time I joined there was no Sales & Marketing Director and I was one of 2 Regional Sales Managers each responsible for the revenue performance of 4 centres and reporting directly into the Chief Executive. Already at 54.73% occupancy after months of poor sales focus with no one properly managing the region, Slough lost two more Clients and the cluster (1,014 workstations) hit 52.37%. I worked as sales manager for Slough and Windsor and managed and coached the sales managers for Richmond and Crawley. Nine months on, occupancy of the cluster rose to 71.4% (an increase of 34.8%) and revenue up by £73.4k pcm (an increase of 42.8%). Two large deals (O2 and 2K Games) would have filled Slough but in the end O2 stayed with their current provider (just moved to a cheaper building) and 2K moved teams around to made space available in an existing property. On 13th June we were informed that Gainsborough was in the hands of Administrators. Regus duly bought most of the business and I found myself all set to be working there again. Since it seemed I was destined to change employers, I checked the Market and received 2 offers, one from MWB. I decided on MWB because their CEO filled me with confidence, they had just revamped the look of centres so had a real differentiation edge, wore black (looks SO sleek and smooth), offered me a new centre opening role in which I estimated I could earn £60 - £100k per new centre and MWB had a better commission scheme than Regus. That said, it was not an easy decision to make, turning my back on the company that had arguably enabled me to become what I am in my working life. I had a "what have I done?" moment about a month in when former colleagues started re-joining Regus and I realised I was missing the chance to work with the old team. Then the deal for London Bridge started and I knew I had made the right choice.

Head hunted by colleagues with whom I’d worked at Regus to be Sales & Marketing Manager then Director (not full Board) of this new business. Starting with zero business centres and shares at 2.5p, we grew to five centres over three years. Based in Central London, I handled sales in our first two centres and then as we started building our team moved full time to the induction, coaching and commercial training and management of our the Centre Managers (equivalent to a Regus General Manager). I planned and managed the marketing spend negotiating with various suppliers of design, advertising and merchandising as well as creating our website. The team and I took the company from a £0 turnover to £3.1M. In November 2004, I was advised by a Board Director that a new shareholder felt they could pull the business up to even greater heights if the board followed this new person's clear ideas for the future. With Centre Managers pretty much self-supporting by now my position was "under discussion" and unable to risk unemployment given my financial commitments if I was made redundant (which is what happened), I started job-hunting. I went to work with MITIE Managed Services on 14/02/2006 selling total facilities management contracts. Having been at the “fast food” end of the property market for so long I was miserable so returned to the serviced office sector and the management and sales role I loved this time working closer to home with Gainsborough in Slough and Windsor.

Asked to open and fill our new Chiswick Park centre, largest in Europe, with 740 workstations and annual revenues of £12m when full. Also to coach, manage and motivate a 4 person sales team with a quarterly sales target of £4.2m and responsibility for 4 other centres bringing in revenue of £13.6m p.a. In Sept ’00 I started Management Development training and working towards an Area Sales Director role. In early ’01 the dotcom crash started to bite and in an “all hands to the pump” re-organisation I was appointed Key Account Manager for 14 centres in the West End focussing on retaining Clients at renewal. In the Summer I got the call from two former Regus colleagues who had left to start up Your Space and wanted me to set up the sales part of the operation. I leapt at the chance to be a founder member in the creation and growth of a new plc.

Promoted to this role coaching, managing and motivating a 4 person sales team to achieve a team sales target increasing each quarter from £3.7M a quarter to £4.1M over four quarters and keep 6 centres, with a combined revenue of £23.5m p.a., full. Over achieved these targets consistently in the 3 quarters I was there (earning £27k in bonuses for myself and each team member in the process) before the call back to London.

Promoted to focus on filling new centres, starting with a 102 office centre in Marble Arch Tower, W1. Target was to be 80% sold within 70 days of opening and exceed revenue targets. Narrowly missed 80% at 70 days when a 17 office deal pulled out at the 11th hour over the Feung Shui of the building (moral of the story, never buy a building with a North facing entrance), but even at the lower occupancy managed to achieve 137% of the revenue target. 1st July, sent to Canary Wharf in a “trouble shooter” role where the team and I pulled the centre up from a 3 month spell at 35% to 88% by end September.

Go out and generate new office rental business within the EC2 territory and exceed sales targets. First deal done 27/11/98 with Kerry Ingredients worth £70k. Largest deal done with Moody’s in May ’98 involving 16 offices and totalling £407k. Total sales since joining, £2.075m. Targets exceeded

Meet senior managers through recommendation, leads or cold calling. Overcome misconceptions and show the benefits of achieving Investors in People. Support the Company as it works to be recognized as an Investor in People over 1 – 2 years. Managed £100k of funding and a portfolio of 107 Clients.

Joined as Help Desk Manager of a 5 person team delivering Connect’s voicemail facilities management. It was a shambles needing radical process re-engineering and automation plus extra manpower, hardware and software tools, training and process documentation. 1 year on, the renamed Service Support was managing twice the number of systems, 15 people and in the final phase of transition into four high performance teams. 3 focused on service delivery and the 4th monitored service delivered Vs SLA and managed the relationship with each Client. Fell out the with the Managing Director about the ongoing level of investment still needed and the direction the business should be taking and for the first and only time in my working life was fired!

Responsible for developing IT department training modules and managing induction of new people into the team, non-Cap purchasing and BS5750 compliance. Set up and managed a 2 person Help Desk supporting 400 Macro people in 4 sites using a Tandem mainframe via PCs and 30 Clients using an “Electronic Store” application which the Managing Director seconded me to help implement. 6 months later, justified a £134k call handling system to supersede the one built ourselves. By now living in London so wanted to work there and joined Connect Voice Messaging.

Reading, England, United Kingdom

IT Support Manager 1990 – Dec 1992European User Project Manager for IMPS 1988 – 1990Inventory Analyst (IA) 1987 – 1988Assistant to Inventory Analyst 1986 – 1987Spares Order Clerk 1985 – 1986IA kept UK stock of spares balanced at minimum cost, maximum Customer Service level. 1 of 2 assistants to the Analyst (who I succeeded), I looked after our MRP system (IMPS) and wrote management reports. As a Clerk, I automated my job and cut the order backlog by 50%. This ability to make things better won me the project manager role – I travelled asking IMPS users across Europe how to make IMPS better then worked with the Milan based software developers who'd make those user suggested improvements happen. Took the more senior IT Support role to manage project teams testing new software upgrades to the linked software applications Digital used to run its business before installing. These tests needed to be sure a change in an application did not mess up any application downstream. The oncoming recession meant there was no money for enhancements so no testing and life started to get a bit quiet. I took a generous redundancy package as the recession hit so used this as an opportunity to buy a house AND find something new to do. (my maiden name was Gates. I was based at DEC Park then Winnersh then back to DEC Park. My badge number begins 18).

Joined as a Clerk, started banking exams and got on Lloyds Management Development programme in 1984. Progressed through all the clerical roles and cashier before training as office supervisor.

Fda/Ba Hons In Integrative-Relational Counselling, Mental Health Counseling/Counselor

A three-year work-based learning course delivered at Kingston College in an Integrative-Relational approach to counselling. It is.

Mental Health First Aid, 2 Day Course Completed

Mental Health First Aid is an educational course which teaches people how to identify, understand and help a person who may be developing.

Understanding How To Support People With Dementia And Their Carers, 1 Day Course Completed

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Ncfe Level 3 Award In Counselling Skills & Theory, Achieved

Aqa Level 2 Certificate In Counselling Skills, Achieved

Hnc In Business & Finance

The course was done over two years of night school

Pure Maths, Biology, Chemistry And General Studies

One of 12 Seniors (Downe's word for Prefect) which was pretty good going given the pupils voted for the Seniors and I had only been.

English Lit,Maths,English Lang,French,Chemistry,Latin,Religious Studies,Geography, Physics,Biology

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