The Marple Cross Centre - Southsea's Private Therapy Service

Dancing with distress

Conference calls for open debate on anorexia

Marple Cross is a private counselling and psychotherapy centre in the heart of Southsea. Our registered therapists are all fully-qualified and experienced practitioners, who provide a confidential. ethical and professional service to clients. We are located close to Southsea Common, with facilities for disabled visitors and nearby parking.

Therapies

Are you looking for support at a difficult time in your life? Wondering whether counselling or psychotherapy might help you on your way towards a happier or more fulfilling future? The Marple Cross Centre is a community of therapists working in a wide range of therapeutic models. We can help you decide what might work best for you.

Services for Therapists

The Marple Cross Centre provides professional facilities and services to qualified and insured counsellors, psychotherapists and other private practitioners. We have 4 rooms available to hire on an ad hoc or long-term booking basis. We also run professional development workshops, support groups and training.

Event: ‘Working with carers’

Sat 26th May '12 @ 9:45am (£89.00)
There are over 6 million carers in the UK; a number that is predicted to rise steadily as the population ages. This workshop will help counsellors and... read more…

Event: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: The Basics

Sat 2nd Jun '12 @ 10:00am (£95)
Are you a therapist who is curious to learn more about CBT, but reluctant to commit to expensive and time-consuming training? This workshop is for you! read more…

Event: ‘Making time to grow’

Wed 6th Jun '12 @ 7:00pm (£15)
Are you working professionally in the mental health field? Do you sometimes feel you give your all to your clients/patients and not enough to yourself? This PD... read more…

Event: ‘Bathing in the river of life’

Sat 16th Jun '12 @ 9:45am (£95)
Do you find yourself - or your clients - struggling with some of the biggest questions in life? What's it all for? What does it mean? Why am I here? This... read more…

Event: How to Lose your Mind and Find Sanity – A ‘Take Five’ w…

Sat 23rd Jun '12 @ 1:00pm (£10)
There are times when our minds work against us! When we come across a problem we think about how to solve it. This works incredibly well with practical... read more…

Event: ‘Take Five’ – £5 Workshop Discount

Sat 23rd Jun '12 @ 1:00pm (£25)
Book this event to reserve your place on all THREE ‘Take Five’ workshops and receive a £5 reduction in the total booking price. The workshops in... read more…

Event: Making Sense of the Therapy Marketplace – A ‘Take Five’…

Sat 21st Jul '12 @ 1:00pm (£10)
Sometimes you know you need to find some help but knowing where to go is a real problem. There is a multitude of different therapies and treatments, remedies... read more…

Book review: ‘Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty’…

Empathy is the ability to see someone else's experiences as if they were your own, but what's the scientific basis of it? And what does empathy have to do with 'the problem of evil'? read more…

Book review: ‘Couple Therapy with Gay Men’ by Greenan & Tunnell

As gay couples we have different rules to our lives, so why would we not have different rules to our relationships and expect our distinct needs for couple counselling to be met by a... read more…

Book review: ‘The Baby in the Mirror’

A fascinating insight into the world of a child from birth to the age of three read more…

Article: Food: Friend or Foe?

Food: love it or hate it, there's no getting away from the fact that we all need to eat it and that we all have complex and at times difficult relationships with it. read more…

Article: The Impact of Life Limiting Illness

Living with an incurable illness, historically was often a terminal sentence, but with the development of health screening and pharmaceutical advances more and more incurable illnesses are... read more…

Article: A Brief Introduction to Circular Questions

In systemic couple counselling, the client in therapy is not primarily the two people coming to therapy - it is the one relationship that the couple brings with them. Asking questions of... read more…