Welcome
Hello, I’m Hannah, a qualified psychotherapist and the founder of HWJ Counselling.
Taking the first step towards counselling can feel daunting, so thank you for visiting my website.
Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck, struggling with your mental health, or simply looking for
a space where you can be yourself without judgement, you’re in the right place.
I believe that every person deserves to feel heard, understood and supported. My aim is to provide a safe, compassionate and confidential environment where we can explore what’s bringing you to therapy at your own pace. Together, we’ll work to help you better understand yourself, overcome challenges and create meaningful, lasting change.
No two people are the same, which is why I tailor therapy to your individual needs, drawing on evidence-based approaches while always putting our therapeutic relationship at the heart of the work.
My goal isn’t simply to help you cope, it’s to help you understand yourself more deeply, build resilience and move forward with greater confidence and emotional wellbeing.
If you’re wondering whether counselling is right for you, I’d be happy to answer any questions and help you decide if HWJ Counselling feels like the right fit.
Counselling Support
I work with adults and young people aged 11 and over, supporting a wide range of emotional and psychological difficulties, including but not exclusive to:
Anxiety
Understanding the root of your anxiety, learning practical coping strategies and developing confidence to regain control of your life.
Depression & Low Mood
Exploring what’s contributing to your low mood, helping you reconnect with yourself and rediscover motivation, hope and purpose.
Self-Esteem & Confidence
Building self-worth, challenging unhelpful beliefs and developing a kinder, more compassionate relationship with yourself.
Stress & Burnout
Whether work, education, family life or everyday pressures feel overwhelming, we’ll work together to find healthier ways of managing stress and restoring balance.
Relationships
Support with school relationships, family relationships, friendships, romantic relationships or workplace difficulties, helping you improve communication, establish boundaries and navigate conflict.
Trauma
Providing a safe, trauma-informed space to process difficult experiences, whether from childhood, abuse, loss or other significant life events, helping you move towards healing and recovery.
Life Changes
Support through bereavement, separation, parenthood, career changes, childhood milestones, identity struggles or any period of uncertainty where you may feel lost or overwhelmed.
Counselling
Online
Life can be busy and sometimes being able to prioritise time for ourselves to seek support can be difficult. Attending counselling sessions online can be an alternative way to be able to access face to face support from the comfort of your own home. We can arrange a regular date and time for our sessions which you can access via a video link I will email to you prior to the session.
Each session will last 50 minutes.
Counselling
Face to Face
I provide face to face sessions in a safe and comfortable location just 10 minutes outside of Oswestry and Welshpool and 25 minutes from Shrewsbury and Newtown.
Two private rooms available for adult and young person counselling sessions.
Additional space for parents to wait inside whilst young people are attending a session.
Each session will last 50 minutes. Free parking.
Counselling
Walk and Talk
Sometimes being able to get outside of the counselling room can be a beneficial way to feel more relaxed to discuss what is troubling you.
We all know the benefits of being outside so why not try a session together walking and talking around a local heritage site with opportunity to sit and reflect along the way.
Sessions are 50 minutes
Additional services
Rewind Therapy
Rewind Therapy is a gentle, evidence-informed technique that can help reduce the emotional impact of distressing memories, without requiring you to talk through the traumatic event in detail.
It is commonly used to support people experiencing symptoms of trauma, PTSD, anxiety, phobias, or intrusive memories.
Many people find Rewind Therapy empowering because it focuses on helping you move forward rather than repeatedly revisiting painful experiences.
Rewind therapy is carried out over 3 sessions for a cost of £200
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based psychotherapy that helps people process distressing or traumatic experiences.
When overwhelming events are not fully processed, they can continue to affect thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and behaviours long after the event has passed.
EMDR helps the brain reprocess these memories, reducing their emotional impact and allowing you to move forward.
EMDR is commonly used to treat trauma and PTSD, but it can also be effective for anxiety, phobias, grief, and low self-esteem.
EMDR is carried out over 5 sessions at a cost of £350
Parent/ family support
sessions
Individual sessions for parents or for the family as a whole to come together to help explore how to best support your child who may be thinking about or accessing counselling. Sessions will include discussions about key areas of concern offering psychoeducation, tools and resources to help your child navigate difficulties and equip you with the knowledge of what might be going on for them so to be able to better support their needs.
These sessions are stand alone sessions, for one or more parent/carer lasting for up to1.5 hours for a cost of £75
Workshops
Psychoeducation workshops to help explore key areas of difficulties, to help understand why and how the body and mind are working the way they are and to introduce tools and resources to provide self awareness and ongoing self help.
Standalone workshops lasting for 2 hours both online and in person for a cost of £20 per person.
Key workshops include:
Anxiety
Low mood
Trauma
Self Esteem and Confidence
These workshops will be advertised and can be signed up to via my social media accounts. These will run once ever 2 months. Please ask for details of next available workshop
Client testimonies:
'The sessions have been amazing. The content has been excellent and relevant. I am learning how my trauma has affected my behaviour and how to challenge my thoughts.. Thank you so much' - Kim
'Thank you so much, it was exactly what was needed. So helpful having these sessions, its helped me cope with a difficult time'
'Very helpful to be able to talk and express. To be honest, ive done lots of types of therapy but this has helped in everyway' - AJ