Dr Tony Weston works with clients upon a wide range of problems and difficulties they are experiencing and this website describes some of the outcomes clients have had from their work together.

Post Traumatic Stress (PTSD) outcomes for 249 clients to April 2024 who on average have seen large improvements in their overall symptoms of PTSD after 7 sessions plus more detailed descriptions of outcomes for 19-24 clients, illustrating large improvements in the component parts of PTSD

Complex Trauma (cPTSD) describes work to April 2024 with 92 clients with cPTSD who on average have seen large improvements in the many different aspects of cPTSD, including depression, anxiety, panic, trauma, social difficulties, personality problems, attachment difficulties and so on

Anxiety shows outcomes for 194 clients with generalised anxiety to April 2024 who on average have seen large improvements in their anxiety from moderate/ severe anxiety to no longer being anxious. Plus outcomes for 62 clients with the most severe anxiety who on average have seen large improvements in their anxiety from severe to not anxious with an average on 11 sessions. Also shows large improvements in outcomes for 95 clients with panic, 249 clients with trauma and 177 clients with social difficulties.

Depression outcomes for 325 clients to April 2024 with moderate/severe depression who on average were no longer depressed after 9 sessions, including outcomes for 113 clients with the most severe depression who were no longer depressed after 12 sessions.

Anger Management for 132 clients to April 2024 who on average experienced a large improvement after 6 sessions in symptoms of threats, intimidation or physical violence towards others.

General Counselling outcomes for 413 clients to April 2024 who on average started with a moderate level of distress and were subsequently no longer distressed after 7 sessions,  a large effect across a wide range of problems, including symptoms (anxiety, depression, trauma, pain), wellbeing, functioning (getting stuff done, getting on with people in close and social relationships) and risk to self, risk to others.

Personality Problems, shows outcomes to April 2024 for 10 personality problems: Avoidant, Dependent, Passive-Aggressive, Obsessive-Compulsive, Anti-Social (Psychopathy), Narcissistic, Histrionic, Schizoid, Paranoid and Borderline/ Emotionally Unstable.

Couples clients for when there are problems within the couple relationship and/or one or both people are struggling with issues individually that they would like help and support with, within the couple relationship. Outcomes to April 2024 are shown across a range of different metrics, including on average large improvements in couple satisfaction for 47 clients over 12 sessions; large improvements in couple attachment (26 clients with anxious attachment, 9 clients with avoidant attachment), plus large improvements on average for depression (60 clients, 9 sessions), distress (97 clients, 6 sessions), anxiety (30 clients, 10 sessions) and functioning in close relationships (156 clients, 7 sessions).

Sometimes underlying these presenting problems are a range of mechanisms that might be giving rise to particular problems and these might include:

Attachment Styles, the extent to which a person feels the need to avoid emotional expression and/or feels at risk of losing/missing important others, to April 2024 outcomes for 47 clients with anxious attachment styles, 41 clients with avoidant attachment styles and 37 clients with attachment trust difficulties are described and shown.

Rejection Sensitivity, acting in ways in order to defend one-self from being rejected by others (sometimes the strategies to prevent rejection can become self-fulfilling), outcomes for 40 clients to April 2024 are shown, together with descriptions and further analysis.

Feeling and thoughts that may cause difficulties

Being Oneself daring to be who you really are. Outcomes for 26-33 to April 2024 are shown together with further analysis and description of the attainment of psychological maturity.

Working with the presenting problem(s) and underlying mechanisms can give rise to lasting change.

You can contact Dr Tony Weston on 01223-894896 (phone is answered by a receptionist 24/7) or email him at tony.weston5@btinternet.com to make an initial appointment.