Jim Holloway Counselling and therapy in Cambridge

I’ve worked as a counsellor and therapist in Cambridge for over 20 years, offering conversational, creative, challenging and encouraging therapy for adults. Having studied different counselling methods — both traditional and radical — I’m versatile in my responses to the kinds of problems my clients want to overcome.

Honest therapeutic dialogue
There are several contrasting “modalities” and “orientations” in the counselling and therapy field. I integrate powerful ideas from most of them. But what I value more than any particular psychological theory or counselling technique is being able to provide my clients with a reliable, meaningful, supportive and ethically confidential relationship through honest face-to-face therapeutic dialogue. Good counselling and therapy is rooted in a certain relational stance by the counsellor/therapist that’s hard to describe, but it definitely involves genuine attentiveness, candour, intelligent listening and reflection.

All regular appointments are booked until May 2025
•  Online, in room, and ‘walk & talk’ sessions are on Tues, Weds and Thursdays
•  Regular appointments are at 09:00, 11:00, 14:30, 16:00
•  My fee is £80 (£100 for couples) for each one-hour session
•  Text 07719 060694 or preferably email me (all messages are confidential)

Reducing overload
Most of my clients say that feeling over-burdened with stressful emotional states was the main reason they decided to seek personal therapy or counselling. Persistent anger and anxiety, loss of confidence, sudden low moods, corrosive emotions like resentment and guilt — these are the sorts of issues counselling can help with. And they are sometimes much more than just ‘issues’: they often point to really deep questions about love and grief and suffering. In my experience, such perennial human problems are not resolved exactly, but more usefully ‘dis-solved’, in one way or another.

Increasing capacity
I also see people who aren’t necessarily struggling with tough personal problems but who are asking big questions of themselves and their relationships and how to change their way of life. Periods of upheaval and uncertainty can be grim yet also growthful. Some of my clients say they want to enrich their self-knowledge and re-invigorate their sense of direction — in their personal inner life as well as out in the wider world. The kind of experimental therapeutic dialogue I offer seems to help. Some call it “soul work”, which sounds right to me. And it is a psychosocial activity: your personal therapy is not actually all about you. Read more.