Dr Paul Northcott
General Psychotherapy • Psychosexual Therapy / Clinical Sexology • Hypnotherapy • Counselling
Understanding, support & expertise to better do & be what you want
Understanding, support & expertise to better do & be what you want
Welcome
Thank you for visiting here.
If you want personal change I applaud you for taking this step of researching help. This move alone can be no small thing.
What I do
This is a British psychological service for mental and behavioural health. I provide psychological therapies to help individuals and intimate partners. I do so online, through video calls, and in person in the town of Penzance, England.
The future is unwritten
What I help with
Matters of personal confidence and self-esteem are common areas that I assist with. These encompass a wide range of concerns, given the span of what can be related to confidence and self-esteem.
Another realm I love to help with is the sexual. Specifically, with the psychosexual: the psychological factors bearing on people's sexual lives. Psychological factors play a huge role in sexual functiong. Hence Psychosexual Therapy or Clinical Sexology ('sex therapy' as more popularly called) can be transformative.
Helping with sadness, depression, and anxiety are further special interests. 'Sadness' is specified because not all people who could be said to be depressed would necessarily be said to have depression; but they may be woefully unhappy and could benefit from help. Anxiety helped with can range from the ever-present 'chronic anxiety' to that connected to specific situations.
Help for people with trauma is also offered. The delicate work around helping with the different types of trauma is something that I'm personally and professionally well-experienced for.
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Also offered is Relationship Therapy / Intimate Partner Therapy (which incorporates what may be called ‘Relationship Counselling’, ‘Couples Counselling/Therapy’, ‘Marriage Counselling'). Issues helped with range from what could be considered common to that maybe less common. The unique stories of all couples or multiplepartners are anyway held and treated with balance and compassion. And there needn't be relationship 'problems' for people to benefit from the enhancements and growth obtainable from Relationship Therapy.
Tracks can be changed
Why these interests/offerings?
One reason is personal. I don't do this work as somebody who hasn't suffered from that for which help is now provided for others.
Another reason is the sheer connectedness of these areas. A main problem in one particular area of functioning often co-exists with troubles in one or more other areas.
Most importantly, possible consequences of problems in these areas are many and profound. There's unfulfilment; frustration; self-hate; outward anger; non-participation; isolation; misprioritisation; poor performance (in assorted contexts); bad habits (for distraction, or comfort); stress; worry; effects on people close to you; not 'acting like yourself'; broken or unattained relationships; suicidal thinking...and worse. Sufferers' lives can be wasted. I sincerely wish to help people avoid or escape from these cracks between the paving of a happy life's walkways, and so to live a life that's as wonderful as possible - as their most wonderful self.
Helping to find the 'you' that you could be
Who my services are for
My clients are English-speakers and 16+. They can be based in countries other than Britain (though my British-based qualifications may not permit me to practice therapy to people who reside in certain countries).
I'm proudly inclusive, and always has been. This very service is an exercise in diversity.
Non-discrimination policy
Article 21 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, concerning non-discrimination, is embraced and expanded upon. I welcome clients regardless of: sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, sexuality, biological sex (assigned/assumed at birth), race, nationality, national-minority membersip, colour, ethnicity, sub-culture, religion and philosphy, political and other opinion, image, physical characteristics and abilities, social status, social class, generation, education, means of income, place of birth, place of residence, financial position, family composition, family advantage or disadvantage, property, language, offender background, fit or non-fit with societal norms, anything else identified as/with, or other grounds that elsewhere could be bases of discrimination, marginalisation, or inequality.
However fully this list has been composed or is read, you can trust that:
- I'm serious about equality and non-discrimination.
- I aim for warm and understanding inclusivity. This is so even if errors are ever made with related terminology or understanding.
The service is sex positive. And it strives to be as GSRD (Gender, Sex, Relationship Diversity) / LQBTQI+ affirming as it can. (Humbly accepted is that designation as a GSRD/LQBTQI+ affirming therapist is more of an earned conferment from people of the GSRD/LQBTQI+ communities, than a self-made claim.)
Privately proofed, wherever and whoever one is
Hesistant or nervous over having help?
I also take pride in being approachable and different.
Approachable
Especially reached out to and welcomed are potential clients who are reluctant to come forward for help or are nervous about having help. I do all I can to ensure people are at ease.
Different
Every consideration is given to this service not being like that of other professional psychological helpers. As such, it could be the very service which - as best as possible - will suit you, given any doubts you have about therapy and therapists and getting help.
If you read on, something of the approachability and difference of myself will hopefully be seen.
Feel you can't be helped?
A deeply held philosophy of mine is that gains and successes can be had in the face of massive impediments - mental and/or practical. 'Against all odds' is perhaps THE canon of this service. The feeling that you can't be helped is thoroughly understood. In part, because of this very understanding I could be the very helper to help you invalidate it.