Hazel Marsden and Lena Bambrick are fully qualified, British Association Counselling & Psychotherapy Accredited counsellors/psychotherapists.

Hazels training was in an Integrative model of therapy, which draws from a cross section of theoretical approaches, including Person Centred, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychodynamic and Systemic. Hazel is also Relate trained and has six years specialised experience working with adult survivors of sexual abuse.

Lena works as a cognitive therapist mainly with clinical Disorders e.g. depression, anxiety disorders including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Panic and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. She is also a trained practitioner in E.M.D.R. (a modern therapeutic procedure used to help reduce the impact of trauma).

We offer a confidential service that works within the BACP Ethical framework of good practice and have a combined experience of fifteen years counselling in a variety of therapeutic settings. We work with couples, adolescents, and individuals with a wide range of issues in a safe and supportive therapeutic setting.

We provide both short term and long term counselling for;

• Trauma, Abuse, i.e. emotional, sexual and physical (childhood & recent)
• Depression, Anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, PTSD, Panic and Stress
• Anger, Low self Esteem, relationship problems, separation & divorce
• Life transitions, work problems, grief, bereavement and addictions

Zest for life Clinical Supervision
Hazel and Lena are qualified supervisors and provide individual and group supervision to trainee counsellors on counselling diploma courses at Belfast Cognitive Therapy Centre, Ulster University, and Queens University. We also supervise practicing counsellors working in private practice and within organisations. A recent addition to our services is providing supervision to counsellors practising overseas using Skype.