About Us
Rosalind Townsend HG Dip.P., MHGI, BA(Hons), PGCE
Serving Clients Since 2009
The founder of The Beacon Clinic, Rosalind Townsend, is an inspirational psychotherapist who has helped many hundreds of individuals move forward from periods of difficulty in their life. With extensive experience working with all forms of emotional distress including anxiety, depression, trauma, domestic abuse, and autism spectrum disorders, Ros always strives to ensure that alongside specific work carried out during appointments, clients have a firm foundation of understanding and a set of tools to continue to maintain their own emotional health proactively in the future. She has a special interest in working with trauma and is the author of PTSD: Understanding and Recovery which can be purchased through this website.
John Halker – HGDip.P, FIICH, SQHP, GHR Reg.
Director of affiliated clinic: The Grove Clinic
John is the Clinical Director of The Grove Clinic, as well as being the lead practitioner, and supervisor. He is a qualified and experienced psychotherapist, and a clinical hypnotherapist, with many years of helping clients to change their minds, to find relief from emotional distress and to realise their full potential. John uses brief solution-focused therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, person-centred counselling and clinical hypnotherapy, and his daily practice is informed by the Human Givens approach to mental health and wellbeing. His home base is in Guernsey but John also practices in London at St. Thomas’s Hospital, in private rooms in Clifton, Bristol.