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Senior Practitioner in Psychotherapy Member NCS (Accred)

Janet has been described as multifaceted as she brings such a wealth of experience and knowledge to all she offers within her private practice. She has 1000’s hours of experience in offering a quality service, where immediate change is always possible.

Janet is highly intuitive, having intense Spiritual experiences in early childhood and being able to see beyond this dimension and where relevent will bring all she has learned from her own life journey, to each meeting you will have with her.

She also has over 35 years of working in within Health & Wellbeing, which brings a richness now combined with personal Self Inquiry and direct experience also.

Janet combines the skills of Counselling and Psychotherapy with her Management experience in local authority and this helps inform her within mentoring, business coaching and clinical supervision of any kind.

She brings all she has to offer in the support of her Clients wellbeing, whilst also fully enjoying and celebrating each and every Client success and breakthrough whatever that might be.

"The only thing that stops you being free, is the belief that you aren’t free already"

- Janet Astle

For a free telephone consultation, please just get in touch.

Janet's working experience includes over 35 Years in Healthcare & Well Being

Previous Voluntary Work & Experience:

Cruse Bereavement Care - Offering 1 - 1 Counselling to children and adults within their own home, working with issues around grief and loss. Later Supervision training leading to supervision of other volunteers.
Checkpoint (Children's Society) Working in outreach destinations such as GP surgeries and Brixham Youth Enquiry offering 1 - 1 counselling to young adults with varying issues from bullying, abuse, alcohol & drug use to relationships.
South Devon Women's Aid offering 1 - 1 counselling to women with varying issues around loss, bullying and domestic violence.
Checkpoint group work "Esteem" with young adults exploring and building confidence and self-esteem.
Children and Families in Grief - Working with families that have experienced a significant loss.

Qualifications:

BTEC D32 33 Assessors Award 1996
NEBS Management Certificate 2000
Cruse Bereavement Care Bereavement Counselling Skills 2000
Cruse Bereavement Care Working with Bereaved Children and Young People 2003 (6-day training)
Advanced Diploma (Level 4) Therapeutic Counselling 2005
Certificate Cognitive Behaviour Therapy 2008
Cruse Bereavement Care Accreditation 2008
Diploma in Hypnotherapy 2008
Level 3 Award in Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector 2009
Level 6 Diploma in Body Psychotherapy 2010
Diploma in Counselling Supervision 2011

As you can see from the above logo I am an Accredited member and
I am also an approved Supervisor with the National Counselling Society

I continue to expand, open and raise my own awareness via the necessary
organisational CDP (continued professional development) requirements and
also more recently have been following direct experience and self enquiry,
from teachers & speakers such as:

Carl Jung - Rumi - Zahir Khan - Eckhart Tolle - Byron Katie to name a few

I attend monthly private Supervision, with someone more qualified and experienced than myself.
This ensures that my own practice work continues to be completely transparent,
professional and fully effective.

I take Client work very seriously and continually look to see how I might improve my services,
if you have an any questions or suggestions then please do get in touch.

I am very mindful of the words I use when writing this testimonial as to the last six weeks Self Enquiry. I don’t want to make this Coaching exclusive to any group, gender or belief system anyone may have. An open mind and a desire to change (mine was deep inside me) I’d seen Janet’s page many times (to be really honest I’d kept looking since 2013) but was scared to go in case I saw /felt / opened so deeply and honestly, I couldn’t put myself together.... good old ego mind. To be honest for the last year I have been desperate for some sort of help – help beyond my GP and my best friends. It wasn’t even I want to discover “myself,” it was more the need to make sense of why I feel/thought the way I did. No matter how many glasses of wine I had or cigarettes I smoked in (and still do) I couldn’t run away from the deep hurt and inability to deeply cope with numerous situations I’ve had to deal with. To other people I was strong. A teacher, a healer, a mum, a wife, a friend, a daughter and yet none of those were “me” On my second session I realised that none of them when “me, “they were an aspect of myself, my story so far but not me. I’ve learnt that “me “is the smallest two letter Word to encompass the essence/soul that my human body housed. I’ve learnt that I have become conditioned to be who I thought I was. I’m 43 years old but with the simplest discoveries I realised why and where that conditioning came from. A 4 year old me, after the loss of my dad Iv became an empath, the reason for to live for my family so I became To start too nurture and to look after others . ... I’m happy with this role and will always be happy but now I can see why I THOUGHT I had to! The freedom in this is recognition helps me to understand who I am! This Coaching is simple. When I met Janet one morning she spoke to me and said I can help if you’re willing to take the steps. She said it’s really simple. My mind didn’t believe her. Before my second session I said with Janet that my brain said, “why will SHE be able to help you ... no one else has” I have to deeply laugh at that now!! The work /discovery you will embark soon is extremely simple. I can’t emphasise that enough. It took away the craziness that was in my head, the next hour, tomorrow, Christmas, birthdays, dog walks, shopping, cleaning all the things that happened in our daily life became simple. No brain chatter no you should be doing this ... you should have done that etc ... life became still and present. And everything above was completed but in a completely different way.
Sue Toon Brixham 2017/18

Janet's counselling has helped me improve my anger. We would talk about a certain subject and Janet would help me talk about my problems that I never thought I could talk about. She helped me a lot and I am very thankful for her service.
J (Male 21yrs old) October 2017

Speaking from personal experience I think the greatest gift you can give yourself or anyone you care for is too book a session with Janet, life will never be the same again, even if you’re not hurting right now you will discover so much that will enrich your life, find out more www.janetastle.com.
Julie, Paignton (Dec 2016)

I have been helped by Janet on so many levels. Health and wellbeing have been a huge part of my life for the past decade but it’s only been in the last year or so I’ve really looked into my emotions properly. I thought I was before but Janet has opened my eyes as to how to properly and deeply nourish myself. Janet has the most incredible way of getting you to see the absolute truth. Sometimes it was agonising, but other times utter bliss and peace. Whatever the emotions, I welcome them now and without Janet’s support I would have carried on denying them. What became apparent to me was that I was not recognising and really feeling all the great things that were already in my life. All to readily I’d beat myself up about something unpleasant but not feel the joy at all the good. Utter madness, but that’s all ended now. Janet has a real gentleness, but it’s also tempered with a bluntness when needed. She snaps it all back together. She has saved me having regrets because there are none. There have been lots of tears but lots of laughter too. Somehow Janet manages to remove the mist from the view so you can see clearly once again. Thank you Janet.
Julie Harrison - October 2018: Improve your Health

If we have worked together in some way or if you would simply like to comment and your words to be used somewhere in support of my work then please get in touch. janet@janetastle.com