I’m Wendy Dignan. An Award-Winning, Published Cheshire Psychologist & Trusted Confidant to High-Achieving Professionals.
I don’t know what it’s like for you…. but what many people feel when they’re suffering with that annoying, gnawing feeling of unhappiness, is stuck. Going round and round the same old loop and no matter what you do to try and change it, nothing seems to get any better.
That waking up at 3am thing, turning thoughts over and over in your mind, not finding any solutions, and then dragging yourself through the day, totally exhausted. I suspect that if you’re like most people, you can’t just put your finger on exactly what’s wrong.
Which has probably left you wondering what the hell this problem is.
So, you start to self-diagnose. Perhaps even think there’s ‘something wrong’ with you; that you’re ‘not normal’.
After spending some time on Dr Google looking at anxiety, depression, stress and relationship problems, you may have decided it’s a bit of everything………or worse, that’s there’s no hope for happiness.
It’s so frustrating when it seems everyone else is smashing it. Like they’ve got it all figured out. To everyone else though, you’re the one who ‘made it’, who’s ‘got it all’…yet, inside…totally different story.
So… you start to think about what you can do to try and fix this thing. This thing I hear clients describe as ‘head-shit’ stuff.
Perhaps you see a counsellor because a friend recommended it and counselling sounds like the sort of thing you should be doing (you really shouldn’t). Or even worse, decide that what you really, really need is a ‘life – coach’ ………..whatever they are?
You may decide to go and see your GP… and yet, the thought of being put on an NHS waiting list and being fed mind-numbing anti-depressants makes you think “f**k that” and thank God it does.
And despite all that, it’s possible that for ages, you’ve just resigned yourself to thinking that there’s “nothing you can do, it’s just the way it is”…
And yet, something keeps telling you that you shouldn’t have to put up with this head shit.
And so, chances are you decided to tackle this yourself. You thought to yourself that there must be a better way. So, you went searching for a therapist, psychologist, psychotherapist or someone who could just make a difference – and it brought you here. It brought you to me, so I can tell you, like I have so many other high-achieving busy professionals, you’re absolutely right…
Not only that, but this head shit is something that a lot of people like you suffer from. People you admire. People you look up to. Even people you know.
And let me tell you, the secret to their success has nothing to do with counselling, therapy, the NHS or anti-depressants, but everything to do with them realising they can control it and their commitment to learning how.
And that work is done through working 1-on-1 with a Psychologist. Not a counsellor, therapist, a crystal-waver or a purveyor of woowoo magic, but a scientist, who uses evidence-based interventions to help you live your best life.
It doesn’t matter how long the problem’s been happening, or how big a problem you think it is. Over 20 years of practise at my Alderley Edge (Cheshire) base and training to Doctorate level gives me the greatest confidence that everything can be changed.
Not only do you get to stop the symptoms, but you get a chance to have your life the way you’ve always wanted it.
So, if you want to live your best life, full of genuine happiness and joy, and do it free from the symptoms of anxiety, depression and pervasive unhappiness, then your next step is simple.
The most exciting thing in the world is getting a chance to tear it all up and start again. Keep all the things you want and throw out everything you don’t.
It doesn’t matter how long the problem’s been happening, or how big a problem you think it is. We can change it. We can change you.
Call me a Psychologist. Cal me a confidant. Call me a therapist if you really want to although therapy is a much broader term that includes techniques far less scientific than the ones we’ll be using. From my base in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, I’ve helped countless people experiencing everything from constant panic attacks to the deepest depression.
Like you, they believed their chance to live their life the way they always wanted had gone.
But now, they’re living their best life, free from the symptoms of anxiety, depression and pervasive unhappiness. You can too.
If you’re serious about making permanent changes you can book in right now or send me an email.