Enderby Associates

Services Available

Psychotherapy with Ray Little.

Counselling with either Ray Little or Jane Read.

Couple & Relationship Therapy with Jane Read.

Psychosexual Therapy with Jane Read.

Infertility Counselling with Jane Read.

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Psychotherapy & Counselling
Psychotherapy and counselling are helping processes involving a confidential talking relationship between the therapist and client. The overall aim is for the client to explore feelings and thoughts with the therapist to enable them to manage their lives more satisfactorily.

Psychotherapy and counselling can help people experiencing personal difficulties, who wish to accomplish understanding, insight and change in their lives. People who seek help may wish to deal with a variety of issues.

These may include:

anxiety and difficulties with concentration and coping,

depression, sadness and emptiness,

difficulties expressing and/or managing anger,

lack of confidence and self esteem,

assertiveness problems,

irrational fears and feelings of panic,

unhelpful repetitive patterns and difficulty in making and sustaining satisfactory relationships,

coming to terms with traumatic events, and issues of physical, emotional or sexual abuse,

the consequences of being an adult survivor of childhood trauma.

These may be as a result of day-to-day stresses of living, or as a result of specific events in life, either current or that have occurred in the past.

Counselling is shorter-term work, which focuses more on specific issues and events. The therapist will work with you to help you to explore and understand your situation or the event that you have come to counselling to address, and help you make the appropriate changes or adjustments in your life.

Psychotherapy involves more in-depth work than counselling, usually takes longer and explores more fully those deeper underlying aspects of ourselves; our inner world and personal experience, and the ways we may have of dealing with ourselves, others and the world.
The therapist's approach recognises the link, not always conscious, between past events in a persons life and their present experience, and appreciates the therapeutic benefit and advantage of the relationship between the client and the therapist in their work together.


Couple Therapy, Psychosexual Therapy,& Infertility Counselling
Couple therapy and Psychosexual therapy are ways in which it may be possible to overcome a number of sexual and relationship problems.

Couple Therapy
This can give you and your partner a chance to explore the problems you have, and to look at ways in which you can improve your relationship. Whether you are married, living together, or in a same-sex relationship, it may be possible to help deal with your relationship problems. With the therapist, you will explore your feelings, values, and ways of communicating with each other. This is often helpful in managing difficult and complex issues within a relationship.

Psychosexual Therapy
Many people experience sexual problems at some point in their lives, perhaps due to a lack of confidence, or because of an illness, or after having children. Psychosexual therapy may be helpful in dealing with difficulties with orgasm, pain during intercourse, low sex drive, difficulty in controlling ejaculation, and problems with erection.

It is often embarrassing or difficult for people to talk about sexual problems. With the help of the therapist, you will have the opportunity to discuss how the problems started, what might be affecting your sex life now and working out what you would like to be different. Medical conditions and treatments can affect sexual desire and satisfaction, and it will be part of the assessment process to ascertain if this may be the case.

In the consultation session, you will have an opportunity to discuss your problems further, in strict confidence, and to ascertain whether psychosexual therapy and/or relationship counselling may be appropriate. If it is mutually agreed to be appropriate then arrangements will be made to work together.

Infertility Counselling
This may help those who are either considering some form of assisted conception, are currently in a treatment programme, or who are having difficulties as a result of the process of infertility treatment. These problems may include, stress, grief, relationship or sexual problems, and coping with treatment consequences.