Talk Through It

Talk Through It provides solution-focused therapy in Newbury, with in-person appointments and online sessions for adults, children and teenagers. The practice is run by Gerry Spatharis and supports people experiencing stress, worry, anxiety, low mood and difficulties with family life, relationships, work, school and day-to-day coping.

The therapy is solution-focused, with sessions centred on looking at problems differently, considering what life would be like without the problem, and identifying small changes. Coping with School sessions are offered for children who are finding the school environment difficult, including discussion of issues arising in school and strategies to minimise them. In-house mental health support is also offered for local companies and schools for employees or students.

Areas adults may bring include anger, career or job concerns, family and relationship issues, grief, unresolved past issues, self-doubt, anxiety, depression, feeling misunderstood, OCD behaviours, ADHD or Autism coping strategies, Functional Neurological Disorder or non-epileptic seizures, fatigue, and wanting to talk.

Areas for children and teenagers include loneliness, eating disorders and disordered eating, self-harm, gender issues, feeling that they do not fit in, panic or anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, OCD-type behaviours, low mood, excessive anger, stress, school refusal, difficulty coping with the school day, repeated thoughts or worries, low self-confidence, friendship difficulties, school work or school expectation difficulties, focus difficulties, worries about judgement from others, Autism, ADHD or ADD, Functional Neurological Disorder or non-epileptic seizures, and PANDAS.

Specific specialisms are neurodiversity, Autism and ADHD in adults and children, and Functional Neurological Disorder. Gerry Spatharis also works with people with PANDAS, and has experience with children and adults on the Autistic spectrum and with ADHD or ADD.

Gerry Spatharis has over 30 years' experience across education and mental health work, including work as a Solution-focused therapist, Clinical Mental Health Worker for the local Council, and Primary Mental Health Worker with the Emotional Health Academy at West Berkshire Council. Training and qualifications include an MSc in Psychology, PGCE, Solution Focused Practice Certificate, IASTI certification, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy training for children, young people and families, mindfulness-based stress reduction, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy training, trauma-focused CBT for children and families, CBT for self-harm, and CPCAB counselling certificates. Memberships include UKASFP, IASTI and the British Psychological Society, and the practice works to the BACP code of practice.