Hi and thank you for your interest in my work.

My name is Daren Messenger: I'm also 'known as' 'Senge'

If you know what you want please text me on 07866 372021. It's the quickest and easiest way to make contact.

Please text 07866 372021 and if you can let me know your needs and where you are based and whether you would consider face to face psychological therapy in person or online then that will get the quickest response.  Or you can email me mindfuldashtherapy.uk@gmail.com

A text conversation is free.

I have been working over 29 years as a psychotherapist, 21 years as a mindfulness teacher and 15 years as a CBT therapist. I have re trained in 3 completely different psychological therapies and so am registered as a psychotherapist with UKCP, as an ACT (mindfulness based) CBT therapist with BABCP and as a registered MBCT (mindfulness based cognitive therapist). 

If you shop around ( I encourage you to do this!) you will see that it is unusual for a therapist to be registered with different professional bodies but I really believe that we have different needs for different kinds of problems. and that 'not one size fits all'.

I also provide EMDR. i have considered IFS training but I decided against this - I have been told- that I already work with 'parts' ; (relations to parts of self) using mindfulness by an IFS trained clinical supervisee!.

You will see - on this website- that I am dedicated to continuing my professional skills to benefit my clients as well as to cultivating my own personal self learning via mindfulness.   I began practising this  in 1989. I also re-engage with psychotherapy when I feel I need to.

You are here because you are looking for a therapist to talk with whom you can feel safe to talk about things, with whom you feel a sense of warmth. This is important. Further to this, if you 'try out' therapy with me you will discover that I am not 'just listening', there will be deep engagement.

In my work- whichever modality you choose- you will discover that, as well as having your experience met and personally validated by me,  you might also start to 'see your difficulties in new ways' based upon these different perspectives.

Much of the way I work entails facilitating your awareness of 'how difficulties' - in life and in relationship-  manifest. One situation, for instance, can be explored in terms of your 'body sense' - your felt awareness OR it can be explored in terms of how you automatically think and react or ACT in relation to this difficulty. We can explore possibilties and choices. 

We might look at your history too- where reactions might have been learned.  This might become an unravelling of past attachment styles or traumas but this doesn't have to be the way:  I'm not a psychological therapist that absolutely feels it's necessary to trawl through the past.

Through these approaces to psychological therapy we  'raise awareness' through exploration. This  leads, naturally, to possibilities of change.

As well as psycholotherapy trainings my personal background involved travelling and  becoming immersed and given teachings and training in 2 distinct Eastern traditions that were very liberal. I am connected to 2 spiritual lineages.

As mentione earlier, I have undertaken 3 different degree level trainings in 3 distinct psychological therapies. Le me detail them here:

1. Psychotherapy (UKCP registered), primarily existential-phenomenological therapy

2. Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT & MBSR) 

3. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (BABCP accredited)

All these therapeutic approaches have a special emphasis upon embodiment and presence.

I have a special interest in ACT - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and DBT. These are contextual behavioural approaches that include mindfulness alongside behaviour change methods.I have also had a certificate level training in EMDR at EMDR London to work with trauma

How do you choose a therapist? I would say that a recommendation goes a long way but it is also important to find someone who is experienced and qualified.

I am currently updating my website.

There is usually a high demand for my work: please text me or email me as there is, usually,  more demand than I can fulfill.

I , usually, only have some slots available in daytime hours.