Abigail Maskill
Training and Experience
Abigail has a Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy from Leeds Beckett University. Her work coordinating the counselling service in a palliative care hospice has given her nuanced understanding and experience of working with grief and bereavement, carers, and terminal illness. She also has experience working with survivors of domestic abuse, and working with young people on building the self-esteem and confidence to achieve their goals.
Approach
Abigail will collaborate with you to tailor your sessions to best meet your needs in the time you have together. She works with warmth, integrity and honesty, providing a space for you to talk and process, and will support you through the difficult emotions that this may bring up. She can also support you to identify how you can make realistic changes in your life to support your psychological wellbeing, and, if appropriate, provide relevant information and insight that may help you gain a deeper level of self-knowledge, which often leads to greater self-confidence.
Types of Therapies Offered
Abigail is a relational therapist, integrating elements from humanistic approaches but also drawing on solution-focused therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and psychodynamic understanding of the ways that the past can influence our emotions and behaviours. Working relationally means that she works within an understanding of the way that interpersonal relationships are central to our human experience, and that the ways that we relate to others are central to the development of and understanding of our sense of self. The relationship between therapist and client, then, is also a place where understanding can be gained, interpersonal skills can be developed, and better ways of being in the world and with others can be tested in a safe environment. Abigail works with individuals, adults, young people (16+)