TonicTalk
Counselling & Psychotherapy
Northampton, Milton Keynes and Bedford

Counselling Services Summary Two consultation rooms within easy reach of Bedford, Milton Keynes, Northampton and Luton. Our Higham Ferrers room is in north east Northamptonshire within easy reach of Northampton, Bedford, Kettering, Wellingborough, Irthlingborough, etc. Our Newport Pagnell room is within easy reach of Milton Keynes, Luton, Bedford, Olney, Emberton, etc. Flexibility: Morning, Afternoon and Evening appointments. Female and Male counsellors to choose from: Suzanne and Carlos Excellent value: £40 - £40 per hour (concessions available): Fees and Conditions. Confidential Service – Our services are private and confidential. However, other services accessed via your GP or the NHS are recorded on your permanent health record and employers and insurers often demand access Professional services by professional therapists All our therapists are fully trained, qualified and highly experienced Counsellors and Psychotherapists No ‘trainees’, student or part time do-gooders Years of successful Psychotherapy and Counselling experience Cost effective Long term sustainable results that can only be provided by fully trained counsellors and psychotherapists Services tailored to meet your individual history, needs and circumstances No gimmicks, ‘fixes’, ‘tools’ or ‘rip-offs’ We work at depth to not only work to resolve symptoms and behaviours but also to discover and resolve the issues beneath them Psychotherapy and Counselling Benefits Improve your Emotional, Psychological and Relational wellbeing Overcome personal issues that reduce the quality of your life Discover internal peace and happiness Improve communication and your ability to relate to others Achieve the home life you have always wanted Improve confidence and self worth Improve career prospects and financial stability Get the best out of life and its opportunities Professional Counselling and Psychotherapy offers you an integrated opportunity to change your life forever. You and your family deserve peace, happiness and wellbeing and TonicTalk Counselling and Psychotherapy are here to help you achieve that goal. Top of Page

Psychotherapy and Counselling Services in Northampton & Milton Keynes • Counselling • Psychotherapy • Anger Management • Couples Counselling • Anxiety treatments • Career consultation and advice • Life and career coaching • Personal, Professional or Spiritual development • Marriage guidance • Mentoring • Some Common or Complex presenting issues • Low self worth • Insecurity • Controlling behaviours • Depression • Anxiety • Panic attacks • Substance misuse • Relationship issues • Alcoholism • Drug addiction • Anger and violence • Physical / Psychological / Emotional / Sexual Abuse • Assault • Victims of crime • Bereavement • Retirement • Disability • Post natal depression • Eating distress • Bullying • Stress • Abandonment • Fostering • Adoption • IVF Separation anxiety • Attachment disorders • Childhood neglect • • OCD • Personality disorders • BPD • PTSD • Psychotic episodes • Psychosis • Borderline personalities • Puerperal or Postpartum psychosis • Drug induced psychosis • Suicidal tendencies • Eating Disorders • Stress induced psychosis • And much more besides. Counselling and Psychotherapy Service Area • Northamptonshire • Northampton • Kettering • Rushden • Wellingborough • Irthlingborough • Irchester • Higham Ferrers • Wollaston • Finedon • Billing • • Buckinghamshire • Milton Keynes • Stony Stratford • Newport Pagnell • Bletchley • Brogborough • Olney • Emberton • Chigheley • Lavendon • Sherington • Warrington • Yardley Hastings • • Bedfordshire • Bedford • Dunstable • Luton • Kempston • Leighton Buzzard • Biddenham • Milton Earnest •Clapham • Oakley • Sharnbrook • Bromham •

Contact a Northampton / Milton Keynes Counsellor
We are always happy to receive your calls and emails and assist you in whatever way we can. (Calls and emails are treated with respect and considered confidential).
General Enquiries:
            Email: Info@TonicTalk.co.uk
            Tel: 01933 395 497 (Private office line with answer machine)
Carlos:
            Tel: 01933 395 497 (Private office line with answer machine)
            Mob: 0742 714 4234
            Email: Carlos@TonicTalk.co.uk
Suzanne:
            Tel: 01933 358 739 (Private office line with answer machine)
            Mob: 0783 778 4663
            Email: Suzanne@TonicTalk.co.uk
We are a successful and busy counselling and psychotherapy service and therefore not always able to immediately answer the telephone. Please be kind enough to leave a message and we will get back to you ASAP.
Counsellor contact details and addresses page.

Therapy Fees

• Full time professional practice: Sessions available from early morning to late evening.
• First session, the ‘initial consultation’, is Free of charge and without commitment or obligation.
• Each subsequent session is to be paid for in advance.
• Concessions available upon request.

Northampton: Higham Ferrers fees:

• Individuals: £40 per hour weekdays between 9am and 9pm.
• Individuals: £50 per hour Saturdays and Sundays between 10am and 5pm.

• Couples: £50 per hour weekdays between 9am and 9pm.
• Couples: £60 per hour Saturdays and Sundays between 10am and 5pm.

Milton Keynes: Newport Pagnell fees:

• Individuals: £40 per hour weekdays between 9am and 9pm.
• Individuals: £50 per hour Saturdays and Sundays between 10am and 5pm.

• Couples: £50 per hour weekdays between 9am and 9pm.
• Couples: £60 per hour Saturdays and Sundays between 10am and 5pm.

Newport Pagnell venue (near Milton Keynes) facilities include: Private off street parking; Reception; and a waiting area with free refreshments and WC which can be use before and after your session.
For more information on Fees and Concessions and conditions of service; please visit our Fees and Conditions page
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Therapist Profiles
At TonicTalk we believe that it is important to be open, honest and transparent in all that we do and to provide sufficient information concerning counselling and psychotherapy and our counsellors [and psychotherapists] to enable clients to make informed decisions. With this in mind, we provide the information below concerning each of our therapists to help you with your choice. Please understand that it is difficult to write about oneself without it sounding arrogant or clichéd.

“An analyst [counsellor or psychotherapist] can help his patient just so far as he himself has gone and not a step farther. …. with patients who got ‘stuck’ with their previous analysts and this always happened at the point where the analyst could make no further progress with himself.”
            ‘The Realities of Practical Psychotherapy’, paragraph 545. 1937
            Carl G Jung (founder of analytical psychology).

Also, as above, we strongly believe that counsellor and psychotherapist personal development are key to client work and that it must be ongoing. ‘How can a therapist help others if he cannot help herself’? All our counsellors, like their clients, have attended therapy and are on personal journeys that require them to develop the courage, compassion and honesty to face themselves; their own actions, thoughts, feelings, mistakes and shortcomings. Therefore, they are all able to appreciate and help with the difficulties of therapy and the fears and frustrations that we must all face to grow and move forward.

“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
            Carl G Jung.

TonicTalk offers its clients the best possible opportunity to achieve long term and sustainable results through personal growth and change. As such all our counselling and psychotherapy client work is based on a firm foundation of tried and tested Psychotherapeutic theory and practice and delivered within the context of developmental and healthy professional client-counsellor relationships. While we may occasionally use a ‘tool’ like CBT, they are offered within the wider context of a psychotherapeutic relationship and not the mainstay of the work.

It takes a minimum of 3 years of study, training and personal development to become a counsellor or psychotherapist while it only takes weeks to become a CBT, Hypnotherapy, NLP, or REBT specialist and requires no personal or relational development. Therefore, we do not believe that such ‘therapists’ are sufficiently well trained or personally developed to appropriately support clients. Also, since studies show that a healthy psychotherapeutic relationship is key to helping clients and these types of cognitive and behavioural therapies do not insist on such; we therefore question their effectiveness as ‘stand alone’ therapies.
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Carlos - Counsellor & Psychotherapist As well as being an extremely insightful and highly skilled Psychotherapist, Carlos is also caring and sensitive of the needs of others and able to provide a ‘safe space’ for clients to be. He is very able and experienced in helping others and has the personal strength, courage and compassion necessary to share the weight of his client’s issues and secrets without being overburdened and to support them through whatever difficulties they may bring. His patience and care, combined with keen analytical, relational and interpretative skills provides his clients with an exceptional opportunity for successful personal engagement, growth and change that is second to none. Therapy with Carlos never jaded, tired, clichéd or trite but rather a wonderful uplifting experience that is sometimes difficult and challenging but always deeply caring and supportive. Carlos has over Six years clinical experience as an NHS Psychotherapist and Counsellor providing Therapy in and around Northamptonshire and also for MIND and CRUSE and now as a private practitioner. He has extensive experience Counselling Adults, (both Men and Women), Adolescents and Children. Carlos’ experience is wide and varied and ranges from common life issues to complex psychological problems. Carlos is willing, experienced and able to work with any individual or couple and their presenting issues and is a fully qualified and indemnified member of the BACP MBACP). Read Carlos’ profile. Top of Page

Key Points Fulltime practising Psychotherapist and Counsellor Six years experience (MBACP) Hundreds of client hours Fully trained, highly skilled, qualified and indemnified Therapeutic modality: Relational Psychotherapist Catchment area Northampton, Milton Keynes & Bedford Clinical psychotherapy experience NHS, MIND, Cruse and Private practice Accredited and recommended Experience of Common & Complex issues Non-discriminatory – experience of working with Individuals and couples Children, Adolescents, and Adults Any age, race, gender, beliefs or sexual orientation High level of Personal & Professional Development and Self-Awareness Professional Experience Professional career spanning 20 years with experience of clients from shop floor to boardroom Own business experience Experience includes • Depression • Anxiety • Self-esteem issues • Relationship issues • Bereavement • childhood neglect and abuse • Bullying • Divorce and Separation • Work and Career issues • Adoption • Spousal / Partner / Wife / Husband Abuse • Anger Management issues • Substance Misuse • Alcoholism and Self Harm • Neglect• • OCD • childhood sexual abuse • Adoption • Suicide • Schizoid issues • Bi-Polar • Personality disorders • and much more besides. Top of Page

Client Testimonial: “Carlos, it was your ability as a counsellor that brought me through it all. You have a natural skill and such an understanding of humanity. It has been very hard work on my part, but now I am at peace with myself.”

Suzanne - Counsellor & Psychotherapist Suzanne is an intuitive, compassionate, and committed counsellor and psychotherapist with over four years and hundreds of hours of clinical experience. Her client work is characterised by a high level of empathy combined with a clear objective view that she is able to gently offer to her clients. She is both courageous and congruent within her own life and with respect to her own development and therefore able and willing to stand along side her clients and assist them with their often difficult journeys. Being in therapy with Suzanne is a wonderful combination of personal care and relational depth combined with a strength of character and honesty that inspires and supports her clients to move forward and personally develop and grow. Suzanne has had great success providing Counselling and Psychotherapy to Adults and Adolescents and has worked for the NHS and CRUSE and is now concentrating on her private practice. She is an Integrative Jungian Psychotherapist who is able and willing to work with any individual and their presenting issues. Suzanne’s continues to work hard one her personal and professional development and has amongst her many qualifications achieved an MA in Psychotherapy and Healing Practice. Read Suzanne’s profile. Top of Page

Key Points Fully trained, highly skilled, qualified and indemnified Therapeutic modality: Integrative Psychotherapist Clinical Psychotherapist and Counsellor experience Professional and Ethical Member of BACP & SOPH Five years extensive experience Hundreds of client hours NHS, Cruse and Private practice Experience of Common to Complex issues Practice catchment area Northampton, Milton Keynes, and Bedford Experience of working with Children, Adolescents, and Adults Individuals and couples Any age, race, gender, beliefs or sexual orientation Dedicated to continual Personal and professional development Professional Experience Professional career spanning 20 years as a teacher and trainer Own business experience Suzanne’s experience includes • Depression • Infertility • Childhood sexual abuse • low self worth • Bereavement • Bulling • Spousal abuse • Physical / Emotional / Sexual / Psychological abuse • Infertility • Abandonment Anger / Aggression / Anger management • Panic attacks • Relational issues • and much more besides. Top of Page

Client Testimonial: “Therapy did me the world of good… I have overcome my issues… and the children, John and I are very happy. Thank you for all your help.”

Venues and Catchment Area
We believe that it is important for individual and familial health and wellbeing that people have access to professional and effective Counselling and Psychotherapy services including Anger management, Couples counselling or Marriage guidance, Anxiety treatments, Depression therapy and other psychotherapeutic interventions. To this end TonicTalk has two consultation rooms offering excellent coverage for Northampton, Bedford and Milton Keynes in which all these services can be accessed.

Higham Ferrers
This private room is bright and airy and comfortably furnished and is conveniently situated in East Northamptonshire with plenty of parking and easy access from the A6 and A45.

Its catchment area includes Rushden, Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough, Wollaston, Irthlingborough, Finedon, Thrapston, St. Neots, Pavenham, Sharnbrook, Billing, Earls Barton, Cogenhoe, Great Doddington, Northampton, and Bedford. All are within 15 miles travel. See Contact Us for more details.

Newport Pagnell
This room is situated within DeVere’s hotel and conference facility in Newport Pagnell. It is a smart, tidy building with plenty of off-street parking, a public gym, reception areas, coffee bars, internet access and much more besides. The room itself is light and spacious and furnished in a contemporary style. Utilising a conference facility allows us to offer our clients complete anonymity and confidentiality. If you arrive early to your session you can relax and take advantage of the public waiting area with free refreshments and WC. This facility has excellent disabled access.

Its catchment area includes Milton Keynes, Olney, Emberton, Kempston, Stony Stratford, Bletchley, Bedford and other surrounding towns and villages.
See Contact Us for more details.
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Anger Management
Anger management is one of our most popular services for both men and women and couples. Rather than provide the formulaic, short term, ineffectual and damaging ‘tools’ so often associated with ‘traditional’ anger management and provided by ill-trained and inexperienced  so-called anger management ‘trainers’ or ‘specialists’. We provide a service that only fully trained Counsellors or Psychotherapists can provide. Anger Management Therapy is an ‘in-depth’ and fully integrated approach to anger management that seeks to not only resolve undesirable behaviours (symptoms) but to overcome the causation behind them and thus achieve long term sustainable results. All TonicTalk Counsellors and Psychotherapists are highly experienced in anger management and resolution and are qualified and able to help you work with any issues that may arise during the process.
Client Testimonial: “I was very scared that my Angry Behaviour and stressed out attitude was going to ruin my (3rd) marriage and I didn’t know what to do about it…Now...My spouse is over the moon because I am easier to get on with and we communicate so much better nowadays… I am forever grateful”
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Couples Counselling
The form of Couples counselling, or what was traditionally Marriage guidance, offered by TonicTalk is one the most dynamic and adaptable services available today. We pride ourselves in offering unique and tailored services to our clients that achieve long term and sustainable results. We have developed our couples counselling such that dependant on the client or clients involved and their particular needs, we can adapt and constellate the service in a way that will meet the very individual and specific needs of those concerned. We are experienced in helping individuals, couples and families resolve issues with communication, behaviour and relating; infidelity; Anger aggression or abuse; Separation or divorce; Fostering and adoption; step-families and children; Bereavement and loss; Substance misuse or addictions; Disability and care; and loss of direction and happiness. If you are interested in engaging with our services, please feel free to contact us to discuss you situation and needs.
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Substance Misuse and Addictions
Our Counsellors and Psychotherapists are experienced in offering psychotherapeutic support for all forms of compulsive and addictive behaviours including: Substance misuse: drug addictions and Alcoholism; Gambling, Retail, and Sex addictions; Gaming and Online addictions and many more besides. If one is to be successful in overcoming an addiction and not repeat or replacing it; there is a need to recognise and resolve the causation behind it. Therefore, TonicTalk takes a holistic approach to addiction, focusing both on the behaviours and the causation behind them and working with the individual and their situation as a whole rather than reducing them to a problem behaviour that must be ‘given-up’.  
Client Testimonial: “I, Mark Brown (pseudonym), test negative for presence of THC (Cannabis). Thank You :)”
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About Therapy
For many people making the decision to take up Counselling or Psychotherapy is difficult. They often feel that their issues and concerns are not important enough to warrant attention for fear of being seen as a ‘malingerer’, ‘time waster’ or fraud when there are people who ‘really’ need help out there. Others feel that their issues and concerns are so insurmountable and overwhelming that they are impossible to resolve. And if they expressed how they feel; that they would lose themselves or never stop crying; or that a Therapist would not be able to ‘cope’ or be unwilling to help. Others feel that no one could begin to understand how they feel or be able to help, so what is the point trying to explain it? And others feel that their ’secret’ is so terrible or damning that they would be judged and rejected if anyone knew.

Small or large; any issue or concern that is having a detrimental effect on your life or the life of your family or your personal wellbeing is worth investing in to resolve. Anything that ‘pulls you down’, depresses you, causes you stress, anxiety or fear or to devalue yourself is something Therapy can help you to overcome.

Counselling and Psychotherapy, when practiced by a properly trained, qualified and developed Therapist, offers a unique opportunity to engage with how you feel and think and with your past and present experiences, within a safe, supportive, non-judging, nurturing and healthy environment. It is a positive opportunity to work perhaps on the most difficult elements of your life and in so doing grow beyond them and be renewed. 

Everything that you currently Feel, Think and have Experienced is completely ‘real’ and undeniable; but, while it may do, it does not have to be the limit of your life and potential happiness. You can grow beyond Fear, Shame, Depression, Anxiety, Despair, Loneliness, Unhappiness, Worthlessness, Aggression and anything else that plagues your life and robs you of your Dignity, Value, Resilience, Spontaneity, Confidence, Tolerance, Appreciation, Peace and Joy. Life has infinite possibilities and in general, is what we make it. Through Therapy you can realise your potential and become all that you able to be.

While many may feel that Therapy is for weak, and perhaps ‘mental’ or ‘crazy’ people; it is not. Therapy is for everyone and anyone who wants to move beyond their issues, worries and concerns or overcome personal psychological problems that degrade their lives. Through the assistance Therapy offers, you can achieve joy, and a better connection and understanding with yourself and those in your life; you can become more tolerant and peaceful; and you can achieve a sense of self appreciation that will reflect in everything you do. Happiness is achieved when what you think, feel and do are in harmony with each other and your social and personal context; and Therapy can help you achieve this.

There is no need to ‘suffer in silence’ or ‘put up with’ things as they are. We are here to help you.

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