As a specialist service with a wealth of experience, we can support organisations and private people with excellent brain injury counselling and psychotherapies.

Services for 

♣ Individuals 

♣ Couples

♣ Care-Givers

♣ Family Members

♣ Friends

Professional Organisations 

♣ National Health Services

♣ Mental Health Providers

♣ GPs

♣ Universities & Schools

♣ Solicitors & Courts

♣ Insurance Companies

♣ Businesses

What causes problems you may be facing?

Mood swings and emotional lability are often caused by damage to the part of the brain that controls emotions and behaviour.

Often there is no specific event that triggers a sudden emotional response. This may confuse family members who think they accidentally did something that upset the injured person.

In some cases, brain injury can cause sudden episodes of crying or laughing. These emotional expressions or outbursts may not relate to how the person feels (in other words, they may cry without feeling sad or laugh without feeling happy).

Sometimes, the emotional expression may not match the situation (such as laughing at a sad story). Usually, the person cannot control these expressions of emotion.

What can be done about it?

Fortunately, this situation often improves in the first few months after injury, and people constantly return to a more normal emotional balance and expression.

If you are having problems controlling your emotions, you must talk to a counsellor or psychologist to find out the cause and support you.

Anxiety

Anxiety is a feeling of fear or nervousness disproportionate to the situation. People with brain injury may feel anxious without exactly knowing why. Or they may worry and become anxious about making too many mistakes, “failing” at a task, or if they feel they are being criticised. Many situations can be harder to handle after brain injury and cause anxiety, such as being in crowds, rushed, or adjusting to sudden changes in plan.

Some people may have sudden onset of anxiety that can be overwhelming (“panic attacks”). Anxiety may be related to a very stressful situation — sometimes the problem that caused the injury — that gets “replayed” in the person’s mind over and over and interferes with sleep (“post-traumatic stress disorder”).

What causes anxiety after TBI?

Difficulty reasoning and concentrating can make it hard for the person with TBI to solve problems. This can make the person feel overwhelmed, especially if he or she is being asked to make decisions.

Anxiety often happens when there are too many demands on the injured person, such as returning to employment too soon after injury. Time pressure can also heighten tension.

Situations that require a lot of attention and information processing can make people with TBI anxious. Such situations might include crowded environments, heavy traffic or noisy children.

 Depression

Feeling sad is a normal response to a person’s losses and changes after TBI. Feelings of sadness, frustration and loss are common after brain injury.

These feelings often appear during the later stages of recovery, after the individual has become more aware of the long-term situation. If these feelings become overwhelming or interfere with healing, the person may suffer from depression.

Symptoms of depression include feeling sad or worthless, changes in sleep or appetite, difficulty concentrating, withdrawing from others, loss of interest or pleasure in life, lethargy (feeling tired and sluggish), or thoughts of death or suicide.

Because signs of depression are also symptoms of a brain injury, having these symptoms doesn’t necessarily mean the injured person is depressed. The problems are more likely to mean depression if they appear a few months after the injury rather than soon after it.

What causes depression?

Depression can arise as the person struggles to adjust to temporary or lasting disability and loss or changes in one’s roles in the family and society caused by brain injury.

Depression may also occur if the injury has affected brain areas that control emotions. Both biochemical and physical changes in the brain can cause depression.

Temper outbursts and irritability

Family members of individuals with TBI often describe the injured person as having a “short fuse,” “flying off the handle” effortlessly, irritable, or having a quick temper. The injured person may yell, use foul language, throw objects, slam fists into things, slam doors, or threaten or hurt family members or others.

What causes this problem?

Temper outbursts after TBI are likely caused by several factors, including:

Injury to the parts of the brain that control emotional expression.

Frustration and dissatisfaction with the changes in life brought on by the injury, such as loss of one’s job and independence.

Feeling isolated, depressed or misunderstood.

Difficulty concentrating, remembering, expressing oneself or following conversations, all of which can lead to frustration.

Tiring easily.

Pain.

If you are struggling, please contact us, as our team can support you with quality acquired brain injury counselling.

We offer privately-paid services from age 14.

Private pay clients are able to choose the focus, duration, and frequency of therapy.

Clients are even allowed to choose the length of sessions. Research shows that clients who have to pay something for their treatment have more positive outcomes than those who receive free treatment.

Individuals can start their brain injury counselling almost immediately.

There are no waiting lists or reports being sent to GPs. It’s Confidential.  

Pricing 

For the general public, we heavily discounted our session fees. This enables them to access counselling easily at an affordable price.

Session Fees for 50 minutes:

♣ Initial Session £50

♣ Pay as you go £70

♣ Saver3 £180  (3 Sessions)

For those who use assistive communication devices, session times move from 50 to 70 minutes with a session fee of £90 & saver pack of 3 sessions at £220

Some people may find that self-paid is just out of reach if this is the case let us know and we can generally help with a payment plan.