Elissa Vale (Your Safe Harbour)
At Your Safe Harbour your needs come first. Psychotherapy, Counselling, Stress Management, Building Better Relationships; Couple Therapy; Group Work and Personalised Training Courses are available. 
- Psychotherapy and counselling
- Emotional Literacy Trainer
- Social and Emotional Intelligence coaching
- Group Therapy
- Pre-Marital Counselling
Your Safe Harbour (originally called Elissa Vale) Psychotherapy & Counselling
January 2003– Present
Based in Daventry and Rugby, United Kingdom
• UKCP reg., MBACP reg., Psychotherapist and Counsellor able to work with almost all areas of anxiety, stress and depression
• Provides short and long term counselling and psychotherapy to anyone aged 11 to 70.
• Writes training programmes for businesses and educational establishments
• Provides training to staff, adults, parents and young people
• Facilitates groupwork and group therapy sessions on a variety of subject areas including bereavement and stress management
• Can help with staff absences and poor performance by working with your staff to improve their communication, self-esteem and increase satisfaction in the workplace
• Affiliated with Coventry and Warwickshires Collaborative Lawyers as their Psychotherapist and Counsellor, working with clients going through separation and divorce
• Affiliated with Reach For Health gym in Daventry, who work with all gp referrals following illness, injury, operations, heart attacks and strokes.
Client issues ranging across the board, including: realtionships; stress; anxiety; depression; bereavement; infertility; bullying at work; parenting problems; young peoples' issues; self esteem; eating disorders; survivors of childhood sexual, physical and emotional abuse; isolation; phobias, pre-marital counselling; fertility treatment; dealing with serious illness or progressive illnesses, Dissociative Identity Disorder, finding a purpose in life, and many more
In 2003 I set up my own private practice initially in Bushey Herts. then in Daventry and Rugby in the Midlands. In 2011 my business was rebranded as Your Safe Harbour. Since then I have been networking and have found that this has helped me, not only on a business, but also on a personal level. Many of those I have met have been instrumental in changing the way I think about my marketing and have helped me develop my now successful and profitable business. I am now living and working and managing to have my family life and a social life as well.
I have had many previous roles. Having been a counsellor since 1997 and a registered psychotherapist and counsellor since 2001, I also ran a partnership called Understanding Strategies, an Emotional Intelligence/Literacy consultancy, which led workshops all over the UK training people on Stress Management, Self-Esteem, Basic Counselling Skills, Being a Great Teacher and many more. We also did in-house training for organisations who wanted to train many of their own staff. My partner and I wrote bespoke courses for these organisations and we also wrote a PSHE manual for 6th Form classes called "Where Do I Go From Here?" We were commissioned to do a study of counselling facilities in the Hertfordshire area and this was done over a 6 month period.
Prior to this, I worked at director level with the major companies in the UK whilst employed by Gartner Group, a multinational giant in the IT research field. Previously a teacher of English and Drama in Primary schools, I have also had jobs as a saleswoman, conference manager, customer services manager, tutor, mystery shopper and waitress.
My passion is for seroc, olives and 4N having just taken on the role of GL Dunchurch Lunch