Dr Stella Compton provides Integrative, cognitive analytic and psychodynamic psychotherapy and now walk talk and equine assisted therapy. Stella studied at the Royal Academy of Music and worked as a performer for many years in all mediums from orchestral, session to jazz and improvising as an HCPC registered Music Therapist. Stella also worked in the NHS for 20 years as a Head of Arts Therapies and Clinical Research Lead.
Stella provides private individually tailored time-limited or longer -term therapies for performers from all areas of the music industry. Stella has helped a wide range of clients including people concerned about eating disorders, body dysmorphophobia, sexuality, bereavement, physical and sexual abuse, neglect, abandonment, job loss, parents caring for with children with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND), as well as people with personality disorders and offenders in secure treatment settings.
She now provides a blended programme of online and face to face cognitive analytic and trauma focused sessions, depending on clinets' needs. She has worked with performers to recover from depression as well as performance related, social and generalised anxieties. She uses mindfulness techniques sometimes underlying issues such as domestic violence or historical abuse emerge. Following an initial assessment session, clients can work collaboratively with her to ensure that their therapy or counselling is tailored to meet their needs.
To these services Stella has developed individual programmes of gently paced nature based walk-talk and equine assisted therapy. She is now focusing on the treatment of depression, performance and generalised anxiety.
As of April 2024 Stella will be providing therapeutic retreats for people who have suffered trauma. For details please refer to website.
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