Hello, My name is Jim Byrne. I have a Doctoral degree in Counselling from the University of Manchester (UK); a Masters degree in Education (with psychology) from the Open University (UK); a Diploma in Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy, from Rusland College, Bath; and both a Primary cert and a Professional cert in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy, from the University of Birmingham and Institute for REBT, Bristol. I have been in private practice as a professional counsellor/psychotherapist for almost thirty years; and in that time, I have helped more than 1,400 individuals with all kinds of emotional, behavioural and relationship problems. I specialize in combining face to face counselling with formal assessment, followed by in-depth reports and follow-up psycho-educational documents.