One of my goals for this year is to start blogging more to help new and existing clients get a better sense of who I am and how I work to hopefully reduce some of the understandable worry and uncertainty that you might experience when you are thinking about starting therapy.

I’m aiming to blog once a month. This is my January blog post, so I’m already behind! I’ve put off posting this for a while because putting my thoughts out into the world makes me feel a bit vulnerable. However, I’ve been listening to the audio version of Brene Brown’s book Daring Greatly recently. In this she explains that vulnerability is an important part of developing connections with others. So here goes…

I’m not really sure where to start. I don’t want to just tell you all about my training and experience as you can read more about that on other pages on this website.

For now, I’ll start by telling you a bit more about me and Woodville Psychology Services. I currently live in South Wales with my 2 dogs, who I will affectionately refer to as Old Lady and The Puppy (even though he’s not a puppy anymore!). The Puppy is a very anxious sausage so I might use him as an example of things we could work on in therapy sessions. When I’m not working for Woodville Psychology Services I work in the NHS and for the South Wales Doctoral Training Programme in Clinical Psychology helping to train the next generation of Clinical Psychologists. This helps me to stay up to date with the latest research and any changes to policies and guidance for therapeutic work.

I founded Woodville Psychology Services in 2021 as I know how difficult it can be to access mental health care through the NHS. It has been an honour to support many people to make changes in their lives and improve their mental health and well-being since I started this work. I specialise in working with people with anxiety as this can have a huge impact on people’s lives.

I’ve gained lots of experience working with university students since starting Woodville Psychology Services. I really enjoy working with university students, and I know studying at university can be a challenging time for many people. I hope I can help the students I work with develop a better understanding of themselves and learn some strategies to help them while they are at university and beyond.

I’ll probably do some blog posts later on about things like what to expect in your first session with me, and what to expect during therapy with me. I won’t include any details of what comes up in therapy sessions to protect the confidentiality of the people I work with. I will probably do some blogs about training courses and events I attend to help me stay up to date with new ideas and current best practice so I can ensure I am offering you the best service I can.

I’m going to try and keep these blog posts quite short so they don’t take too much time to read so I will leave it there for now.

Until next time…

Taryn