Counselling, Psychotherapy and Coaching in Chichester and West Wittering, West Sussex.
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Talking things over with an understanding, trained outsider can help people to clarify thoughts and feelings in a safe and confidential environment, make decisions and even make major changes in their lives, to feel happier and more fulfilled.
Counselling is a partnership between counsellor and client which explores the client's experience: the client decides which issues she/he wants to look at and prioritise. All sessions are confidential.
I work with adults, children and couples covering a broad range of issues including:
My Practice
- Is at the Chichester Holistic Centre, and by the Sea in West Wittering, in West Sussex. To make an appointment call mobile 077408 18350.
My approach
- To counselling, psychotherapy and coaching is supportive, motivating and action-orientated. I aim to facilitate and enhance personal insight and empowerment with an emphasis on achieving what the client wants.
Feedback from clients and colleagues give the following commendations,
I am actively engaged in continued professional development, nearly a year into an MA programme in Child, Adolescent and Family Therapy and am committed to ongoing supervision.
My training
- is integrative drawing on a variety of approaches in Psychotherapy, from person-centred to psychodynamic and existential and is based on a transpersonal philosophy which looks at situations from a holistic perspective. I believe that we all have the potential to learn and/or heal from difficult experiences or life crises and that the therapeutic relationship with a counselor or psychotherapist (who you feel you can work with,) can provide a safe and supportive situation that helps you do that.
I am a qualified and accredited psychotherapist and counsellor, and BBC trained coach. I have eleven years of experience as a psychotherapist, and also trained as a coach and worked as an executive coach at the BBC for three years before beginning my own coaching practice.
I offer a range of skills from counselling and psychotherapy to business and executive coaching to life coaching as appropriate for the goals and issues at hand.
Supervision
I have continued my professional development with a year’s training as a counselling and psychotherapy supervisor, in a UKCP and BACP accredited course, and have experience of working for a NHS and privately financed counselling centre, running group supervision. This training and earlier experience in management, and coaching proves helpful in recognising and naming some of the dynamics that occur in groups and organisations in order to problem-solve and get on with the work in hand. I offer individual supervision to counsellors and psychotherapists as a supervisor in training, working towards completing accreditation hours.
I work with people both one to one and in groups running workshops in some of the issues listed above.
What is Counselling?
Counselling aims to offer insight and awareness in order to move forward. Sessions are often arranged weekly or at mutually agreed times.
Can it help? Counselling and psychotherapy can help you lead a fuller happier and healthier life supporting you while you tackle issues from anxiety and depression, to addictions, to the after-effects of trauma, accident, bereavement, child sexual abuse, to relationship issues, separation and divorce to anger management. More positively it can help you work out the direction you want to go in life and influence your general wellbeing, happiness and outlook over time.
How many sessions will it take? This varies widely - most people start with one or two introductory sessions in which we discuss how often and how long you want to work on these issues. Some move on to six to twelve sessions. This is usually enough time to confront and resolve the issues that have brought people along to counselling, for some tackling their issues can take longer. It is always your choice as the client to come to counselling and make sure the sessions feel worthwhile to you.
How much does a session cost? My fee for a 50 minute session is usually £45 but is negotiable depending on circumstances.
Contract: I adhere to the ethical code of my accrediting organisation, the UKCP and the BACP. The sessions are confidential. I usually ask for 24 hours notice for cancellation, or charge my usual fee to cover the expenses I've incurred (eg: room rental) and loss of alternate earnings.
Areas I specialise in: I have worked with a broad range of issues and have found the in depth work I have done with clients around healing from trauma in childhood very rewarding. I am particularly interested in how we can free ourselves from the obstacles that hold us back or prevent us from achieving our goals, fulfilling our potential.
