Gram Davies | Counselling & Psychotherapy
Therapist Available Online and in Tiverton, Mid Devon (near Exeter)
My name is Gram. I can offer you a thoughtful and friendly counselling service. Somewhere you can explore what is going on for you at your own pace. To feel understood and to approach change with some help.
In-person or remote therapy sessions are available, to an open time-frame which suits your needs. Psychotherapy works online, by video or phone. Or we can meet in a counselling room, near the town-centre. I also offer therapy by email.
To help you choose the right therapist, I offer several ways for you explore counselling with me, including free consultations and cheaper first appointments.
If you would be glad to find a male counsellor, showing warmth and openness to others, I could be a good fit for you.
I’m well qualified as an integrative therapist, part of a Professional Standards Authority Accredited Register and fully insured.
Ways to Access Therapy
Online
50 mins phone/video call
- Telephone
- Video
- Any UK location
In-Person
50 mins one-to-one
- Face-to-Face
- Confidential
- Tiverton, Devon
Weekly correspondence
- Written word
- Encrypted
- Any UK Location
Your first session is half-price, because I want to make finding the right therapist as easy as possible.
Therapy by Phone or Video, and Email
Maybe you’d like to try therapy by telephone or video call, or even email. People find all these ways of doing therapy are effective. Just pick which suits you best.
Telephone Therapy
Counselling on the phone can be a convenient option. I will call you at the agreed time each week.
We can arrange to work from different parts of the United Kingdom, and I guarantee the same level of commitment as with in-person working.
To work this way, you’ll need an hour when you’ll be left alone, somewhere undisturbed.
Video Call
I use a secure, private service which everyone with a computer, tablet or decent smartphone can use. An invitation with a link for our video meeting will be emailed to you beforehand.
You’ll need a good internet connection, and we’ll also agree an alternative way to get in touch, for rare occasions when our signal gets interrupted.
Counselling by Email
A counselling “session” consists of one email each. Usually this will be weekly. To start with, I’ll send you some helpful prompts which you can answer as fully as you want.
As much time and energy goes into my email reply as when meeting face-to-face. I aim to answer within 48 hours, on working days.
Choose a quiet place to read and write emails, and expect to make weekly sessions, just like other counselling.
Or In Person?
If you would prefer to meet face-to-face, no problem. I am based in Tiverton, Devon
Tiverton, Mid Devon || Near Cullompton and Exeter
EX16 – Mid Devon
Who Can Benefit from Therapy?
Examples of Why People Choose Therapy…
- Emotional Disturbance
- Relationship Issues
- Anxiety
- Bereavement
- Depression
- Domestic Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Family Conflict
- Life Transitions
- Self Esteem
- Stress
- Trauma and (C)PTSD
- Mood Disorders
- Personality Disorders
…and, of course, many others.
Anyone who feels distressed, challenged or overwhelmed can benefit from counselling. As a therapist, I don’t make diagnoses but I can work with what illness means to you and how it effects you or others. I believe we should always go at a pace that feels right for you.
People I Work With
I work with adults (18+) from many areas of life. As a counsellor, I try to understand both individual difference and social belonging. I have worked therapeutically with people of different ages, abilities, orientations and beliefs.
Past or Future?
Psychotherapy doesn’t always revisit what happened before. It may also be about telling a continuing story of who you are now, or want to be tomorrow, which steps out from the past into what happens next.
What Sort of Counsellor Am I?
I describe myself as a counsellor who uses psychotherapy to help you find healing or change. Gradually building trust and connection forms the basis for effective therapy. I will explore with you how we can best work together to meet your needs.
Therapy usually happens weekly, in sessions lasting fifty minutes to an hour. We may choose to speak together privately in person, over the telephone or by video call. Written communication is also an option. Your privacy and confidentiality are given utmost importance.
My training is integrative, which means I combine different styles in ways that make sense and are useful. Because everyone has different needs, I don’t say that any one technique is always part of my practice. But here are some of the approaches which influence how I like to work:
- Relational Psychotherapy
- Trauma awareness
- Interpersonal Neurobiology
- Mindfulness
- Compassion Focussed Therapy
- Cyclical Psychodynamic Therapy
- Attachment Theory
- Inner Community / Internal Family Systems
- Narrative Formulation
Practice in the Aristotelian sense … relations between and among human beings.
Orange, Atwood, and Stolorow (1997), ‘Working Intersubjectively‘, p.27
Qualifications | Documents
Qualifications and Certificates
for online and in-person counselling and psychotherapy
Standards and Working Practice:
Counselling Enquiries and Bookings
I offer free consultations by phone, without any obligation to go further. This gives us chance to make sure I’m the therapist you need.
Ask me questions, find out about consultations or arrange an appointment. Don’t worry about needing to explain everything at once, I’ll get back to you.
I check and answer message on weekdays, between 10am and 7pm, and I will aim to reply within 48 hours.
Contact Me
by Telephone
Calls are through a dedicated handset which is kept locked and encrypted.
Contact me
by Email
I use a non-descriptive email address to help protect your privacy. Service is encrypted.
Contact Me By Form
Messages are always treated in a confidential way.
Crisis Support
In a mental health emergency call 999
I do not provide emergency or crisis support but you can seek this help from:
The Samaritans
Phone: 116 123 English
Phone: 0808 164 0123 Welsh
Email jo@samaritans.org
Wellbeing and Mental Health Helpline
Tel: 0800 915 4640 (Mon-Fri 7pm-11pm or Sat-Sun 12pm-12am)
Mental Health Matters
Tel: 0800 616171
Copyright Gram Davies 2022
Tiverton, Devon, UK, EX16