Developing Positives Counselling

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I am a pluralistic counsellor, which means I work in collaboration with you to provide therapy in a way that meets your needs.

I can draw on a number of modalities, but at my core I am person centred.

25/10/2026

What would be different if you felt more confident, calmer, or more in control of your life?

Many of us spend so much time coping that we rarely get the opportunity to pause, reflect, and focus on our own wellbeing.

Therapy can help you:

✅ Build confidence
✅ Manage stress and anxiety
✅ Cope with loss and change
✅ Improve emotional wellbeing
✅ Better understand yourself and your relationships
✅ Create positive change

If you're curious about how therapy could help, I offer a free introductory conversation with no obligation.

🌐 developingpositives.uk

"Small steps can lead to significant change."

25/10/2026

Kizuku - Stage Three: Relating

What might your photographs reveal about the relationships and connections in your life?

Our relationships shape how we see ourselves and the world around us.

In Stage Three of the Kizuku programme, clients use their photographs to explore connection, distance, support, boundaries, challenges, and opportunities for growth.

Sometimes an image reveals more than we first notice. Who or what feels close? What stands apart? What is seen, unseen, protected, or exposed?

Through photography and conversation, we begin to uncover the patterns that influence how we relate to others and ourselves.

📷 Kizuku is a six-session therapy programme integrating photography into the counselling process.

🔗 Discover more: www.developingpositives.uk/kizuku

04/10/2026

Useful advice if you are thinking of contacting a counselling service for the first time

25/09/2026

Kizuku is a Japanese word meaning "to notice."

What memories are images carrying?

Stage Two of Kizuku is Remembering.

Photographs have a unique way of connecting us to our personal histories.
In this stage, we explore how past experiences continue to influence present life. Together, we reflect on the people, relationships, environments, and events that have contributed to our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.

This isn't about dwelling in the past.
It's about gaining a richer understanding of how our past continues to live within us today, influencing the choices we make, the relationships we build, and the stories we tell ourselves.
Through photography and conversation, we begin to connect the threads between then and now.

📷 Stage Two: Remembering
🌿 Part of Kizuku, a six-session therapy programme
💬 One-to-one therapy with a BACP-registered therapist
📍 No photography experience required

Sometimes the images that catch our attention have something important to tell us about where we've come from.

Learn more at: developingpositives.uk/kizuku

14/09/2026

It's always great to see positive change in clients...and even better when they give such nice feedback at the end of our time together :)

12/09/2026

Kizuku means "to notice."

That's why the first stage of my new six-session therapy programme is called Seeing.

Together we'll slow down, pay attention, and explore what emerges when we truly notice:

📷 What draws us to an image
🧠 What memories and thoughts arise
❤️ What we experience in the body
🌱 What feels important but perhaps hasn't yet found words

This is not a photography course.

It is therapy, with photography providing another language through which we can explore ourselves and our experiences.

As a BACP-registered therapist, I'm delighted to be offering this new six-week, one-to-one programme.

Find out more: developingpositives.uk/kizuku

04/09/2026

Kizuku is a new six-week, one-to-one therapy programme that combines professional counselling with the power of therapeutic photography.

As a BACP-registered therapist, published author, and practitioner with many years' experience in therapeutic photography, I have seen how photographs can help people explore thoughts, feelings, memories, relationships, and life experiences in ways that words alone sometimes cannot.

This is not a photography course, and you don't need any photography experience.

It is therapy.

Photography simply provides another language through which we can understand ourselves, make sense of our experiences, and discover new possibilities for change.

The programme follows a six-stage therapeutic journey:

🔍 Seeing
Exploring what is drawing your attention right now.

🕰️ Remembering
Reflecting on the stories, experiences, and memories that have shaped you.

🤝 Relating
Understanding patterns in relationships, both past and present.

❤️ Feeling
Giving space to emotions that may have been hidden, avoided, or difficult to express.

🌱 Becoming
Exploring strengths, possibilities, and the person you are becoming.

✨ Integrating
Bringing together new insights and creating a meaningful way forward.

Over six weekly sessions, we will use conversation, reflection, and photographs to deepen self-awareness and support personal growth within a safe and professionally held therapeutic relationship.

No specialist equipment is needed. A phone camera is more than enough.

If you're looking for therapy and would like to explore a creative, thoughtful, and deeply personal approach to understanding yourself, I'd be delighted to hear from you.

📩 Message me for further information or to arrange an initial conversation.

04/09/2026

For more information about me and the service I run, feel free to visit my Counselling Directory profile
https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellors/neil-gibson-2

01/09/2026

I am delighted to announce my newest project - Kizuku

“This is not photography as therapy. It is therapy itself, with photography providing an additional language through which experience can be explored and understood.”

For many years, photography has been central to my professional work. As a therapist, published author, and longstanding practitioner in the field of therapeutic photography, I have seen the unique ways that images can help people access thoughts, feelings, memories, and experiences that can be difficult to express through words alone.

I’m pleased to announce that I am now offering a six-session therapy programme integrating photography into the counselling process.

These are one to one, online therapy sessions, grounded in a professional therapeutic relationship and informed by established counselling practice. Photography is not the goal of the work. Rather, your photographs and image-making become valuable tools for reflection, exploration, and deeper understanding.

Together, we may explore themes such as identity, relationships, loss, life transitions, self-esteem, personal history, or the challenges you are currently facing. The photographs we use can help uncover perspectives and emotions that might otherwise remain out of reach.

You do not need any photography experience, artistic ability, or specialist equipment. The focus is not on creating great images, but on what the images reveal about your experiences, strengths, and aspirations.

For more information, visit https://developingpositives.uk/kizuku/

30/08/2026

Recent research published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology suggests online therapy is as effective as in person sessions. I offer both online and in person sessions and know that the therapeutic relationship is the vital aspect of what makes therapy work. Whatever you are facing, you don’t need to face it alone.

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+447879647237

Website

https://developingpositives.uk/

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