For assessment, counselling and written help with your emotional, behavioural and relationship problems…
ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy Services
Hebden Bridge and Worldwide
With Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling
Updated on 10th October 2025
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“If you seek a little bit of help and guidance, you will most likely get a little bit of benefit. But if you seek a lot of help and guidance – and act on that guidance – you will most likely get a lot of benefit! Choose!”
- The Buddha “should” have said this!
- Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling
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Page Summary
ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy Services, led by Dr. Jim Byrne, offers specialized counselling and therapy guidance and assessment – in Hebden Bridge and Worldwide – for individuals facing emotional, behavioural, and relationship challenges. The services encompass couples therapy, attachment issues, trauma therapy, and personalized analysis of adult personality, based on assessment of childhood experiences. There is a choice to be made between a one-session service and a six-session serice. After each counselling meeting, a detailed report containing analysis and solutions is provided, alongside follow-up psycho-educational (or informational) documents for personal growth and improved goal achievement.
- Service No.1 is a single-session of counselling, preceded by assessment questionnaires, and
followed by a detailed analytical report and two or three follow-up psycho-educational documents. The aim of the report and the follow-up documents is to provide you with all the knowledge and skills you will need in order to resolve the problem(s) we discussed in our 60-minute meeting. (The two normal assessment questionnaires used as part of this service are as follows: The Joines Personality Adpatations Questionnaire JPAQ); and the E-Cent Lifestyle Factors Questionnaire).
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- Service No.2 is a six-session package specially designed for clients needing extensive support, particularly with attachment problems, emotional regulation and trauma issues.
Each session is preceded by a relevant questionnaire – the range of which will include: personality adaptations; childhood traumatic experiences; two attachment questionnaires; questions about your parents and their relationship; and current lifestyle approaches to self-management. And after each session, I will write a brief report, and send one informational (or “psycho-educational”) document, containing valuable knowledge and skills related to solving the problems discussed in our work in that session.
With over 26 years of experience, Dr. Byrne emphasizes a tailored approach to help clients achieve improved relationships and emotional well-being.
Unsolicited counselling-client testimonial
“Hi Jim, I look forward to your next report. I always feel excited by the arrival of your reports, because of the deep insights, and unusual perspectives, that you bring to my life. I have moved on from my previous preoccupations, and am now dealing better with the here and now! And I am much happier!”
E.C. Cardiff, South Wales. (Long-term counselling and therapy client with family of origin trauma-related problems).
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About the fit between you (as a client) and me (as a counsellor, coach, psychotherapist)
If you are looking for a low-cost or moderate-cost counselling and/ or psychotherapy service, you have landed on the wrong website. Please try the Counselling Directory.
If you have no significant budget constraints, but you are looking for a counsellor or psychotherapist who offers a listening service, this is not the right website for you.
If you know that your current “winning formula” is not working for you, in the
sense that your thinking/ feeling/ behaviour does not produce the kind of satisfaction you desire in your relationships – at home or in work; or that it does not help you to feel happy and healthy and content with your life; and you are open to learning a new “winning formula” for your life; then this is most definitely the right website for you; provided:
- You speak, read and write to high school standard in the English language;
- You learn well from a combination of reading, journal writing and coaching / counselling conversations.
- And that you have the time, energy and commitment to work on changing “what you do” in order to get more of what you want.
If this sounds like you, please read on!
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Service No.1: Assessment, one counselling session, and follow-up documents
Helpful for: Couples therapy and relationship counselling
Plus attachment issues, personality adaptations, affect (or emotion) regulation, and lifestyle coaching
Plus: Anger managemen; trauma therapy; anxiety and depression counselling
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Would you like to have a better life? Happier relationships; higher self-esteem; and a profound sense of satisfaction with your life?
I can help you with those goals. As a minimum, you would get:
- a detailed analysis of your adult personality, based on how you adapted to your childhood parents? (This can help with your couple relationships, your work relationships, and your general level of happiness!)
- Insights into the strengths and weaknesses of your personality, so you can work on your “areas for growth”, and develop more effective expressions of adult personal power?
- And you would also learn which aspects of your current lifestyle you need to change in order to function at your best, at home, in work, and in life generally?
I can write a guidance report for you, which includes a detailed analysis of your personality and your lifestyle habits; including how to improve your personal functioning in the world. All you have to do then is to follow that guidance, over a period of time – changing yourself and your habits – and a new life will emerge from that process!
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♣ “Hello Jim, Your detailed report arising out of our last meeting is extraordinary. You certainly did your homework. The richness of the information and the sheer range of ideas and solutions is beyond anything I could have expected, despite being used to your very, very helpful reports!”
M.H., San Jose, California. (Long-term work on a range of issues to do with childhood trauma, and current career stressors).
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We would also meet for a 60 minute session, to discuss the answers you have provided to my personality and lifestyle questionnaires, and whatever is on your mind.
I would then follow that up with a detailed analytical report, about your personality and lifestyle habits; and what you need to change for the better.
And then I would forward at least two or three documents (psycho-educational information documents) designed to teach you the knowledge and skills you need in order to optimise your physical and mental health, and your relationship skills.
Chief among those documents would be detailed profiles of your personality adaptations, including your strengths, pitfalls, and areas for growth. Plus some guidance on your lifestyle habits which will improve your health and happiness and your functioning in the world.
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I charge the modest fee of just £360.00 GBP for this service.
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I can also offer follow-up counselling meetings; plus further assessments and analytical reports, to suit your needs. We can negotiate that after you have completed one package of Service No.1, described above.
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Furthermore, I am now offering a six-session package for clients who need more human contact as part of their healing journey, because of problems with insecure attachment, emotional regulation problems, and childhood developmental trauma issues. Please see the Postscript at the end of this page, describing briefly my new Service No.2.
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I am a Fellow Member of the International Society for Psychotherapy and Counselling (FISPC).
I have more than 26 years’ experience of counselling with more than 1300 individuals, with all kinds of problems of couple conflict, communication difficulties, anger, anxiety, depression, stress, and childhood developmental trauma (or Complex-PTSD).
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If you need my help, please contact me by email initially, here:
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If your need is for low cost, single session counselling, try the Counselling Directory.
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Best wishes,
Jim
Dr Jim Byrne
Doctor of Counselling
ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy
Hebden Bridge and Worldwide
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To sign up for Service No.1…described above…
Take the First Step—Contact Us Now.
Your journey to a happier, more fulfilled life is just one conversation away.
Contact details:
- Contact Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling, ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy Services, Hebden Bridge and Worldwide.
- Email me today: Dr Jim’s Email Address.
- Telephone: 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)
- 44 1422 843 629 (from outside).
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Unsolicited counselling-client testimonial
♣ “Hi Jim, I was surprised at how quickly your teaching helped me to get my eating disorder under control. I took the supplements, and I used the technique for deferring gratification. I am also getting the kind of physical activity you recommended, and managing my sleep better. Thanking you for your knowledge and experience!”
N.J., Halifax, West Yorkshire. (One meeting with documentary follow-up, for addiction.)
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Service No.2: New multi-session counselling and therapy service for attachment and trauma related therapy:
Many former clients have found my Service No.1, described above, to be perfect for their needs.
However, people with trauma and attachment problems clearly need more than a single session, plus assessment and follow-up reports/docs.
It is well known that it takes time – meaning several meetings – for an individual to achieve “earned security” through contact with a therapist who has a secure attachment style; and it takes time – multiple meetings – to internalize the “affect regulating” (or emotion recalibration) which can come from repeated encounters with an emotionally intelligent counsellor/therapist.
So I have recently developed a multi-session package for individuals – which would work for individuals with attachment, and/or trauma and/or affect regulation issues. This package includes:
- Six counselling meetings – (which can be weekly, fortnightly, or monthly, as appropriate);
- Up to six formal assessment questionnaires – (to identify the roots of the client’s problems);
- And a brief follow-up report after each meeting,
- plus at least one follow-up document as homework after each meeting (as appropriate).
This package would cost you just £900.00 GBP; payable three days before our first meeting.
If you would like to follow-up with me on that idea, then please email me in the first instance.
Email: Dr Jim’s email address…
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Specialist services:
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Additional specialist services:
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(2). The Inner Couple Model; or how to rewire your brain for better couple relationships;
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(3). The Personality Improvement Process…
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ABC Coaching and Counselling Services offers counselling, coaching and psychotherapy services to individuals above the age of 18 years.
We do not see clients who have been “sent” by others. We help individuals who are highly motivated to help themselves to improve the quality of their lives.
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The ABC Coaching and Counselling Services Group is based at 27 Wood End, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, UK; but we work all over the world via MS Teams and the telephone system. Email: Dr Jim’s Email Address. Or phone 01422 843 629
All of the material on this website is the copyright property of Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling.
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Jim Byrne and Renata Taylor-Byrne run the ABC Coaching and Counselling Services Group…
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- Contact Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling, ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy Services, Hebden Bridge and Worldwide. Email me today: Dr Jim’s Email Address.
If not now, when!?!
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ABC Counselling and Psychotherapy, Hebden Bridge 