Fiona Smith
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About me
I have worked as a psychodynamic psychotherapist for the past 20 years. Psychodynamic means that our work will look at unconscious processes and repeated patterns as they manifest themselves in your current life. Therapy will facilitate self-awareness and provide containment
In person face-face & Online.
I am an MBACP professionally registered qualified counsellor/psychotherapist in South East London.I am a Registered experienced Psychotherapist MBACP and my role is to listen actively to your difficulties and help you clarify your needs, thoughts and feelings in a safe, supportive environment. We may look at unresolved past issues, your current life situation, and the future or explore together the options you have in making decisions and managing your life. The aim of our work together is to help you gain a greater awareness, feel more in control of your life and open yourself to all possibilities and to help you create also, understand healthier relationships with yourself and others.
We may all experience psychological pain or turmoil at times feeling anxious, sometimes this may be transient, but sometimes these feelings may persist, and feel insurmountable leaving us feeling depressed and alone. This is where counselling and psychotherapy can help.
You may feel like the same problems and relationship patterns keep repeating themselves, despite your best efforts to move on with your life. You may not be quite able to define exactly what you are feeling, or your emotions might seem overwhelming, as if you cannot understand or control them.
I am a Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP), with extensive experience of working with individuals experiencing a wide range of difficulties with relationship, bereavement, anger, depression, anxiety, stress, low self-esteem, loss, and much more, In addition to my private counselling practice. I am a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP). I also have experience of working with mental health issues through Mind which, is the leading mental health charity for England and Wales. I am also trained in the areas of Relationship issues and Bereavement Counselling.
To make an appointment call 07904024549, 02082491519.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Certificate of Proficiency awarded - BACP Accredited Voluntary Register 155943 - Professional Standards Authority www.bacp.co.uk
- Dip Advance Psychodynamic Person Centred Level 4, Psychotherapist Counselling
- Level 2 Cert Counselling, Level 2 Cert Counselling Studies In Therapeutic Counselling and a supervisor.
- Advance Diploma in Psychotherapeutic & Counselling
- Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
- Certificate in Counselling Studies
- Certificate in Counselling Skills
I am a Registered Member of the BACP - The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
BACP is one of the UK s largest professional bodies for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) The BACP Register is the first psychological therapists' register to be accredited under a new scheme set up by the Department of Health and administered by an independent body, accountable to Parliament. This professional body ensure a strict code of ethics and the highest standards of confidentiality.
Members of the public can now choose a counsellor or psychotherapist belonging to a register approved by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).
Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.
Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.
All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Creativity
- Meaning of life
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Free initial telephone session
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
My standard rate for individual therapy is £65.00 per session.
Mon- Friday fee per session, £65.00.
- I currently have no evening appointments available.
- please get in touch for other times.
- I look forward to hearing from you.
When I work
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Tuesday-Friday 7am-2pm
Further information
Please feel free to contact me:
- Send me an email
- Telephone: 020 8249 1519
- Mobile: 0790 402 4549
Any correspondence between us will be kept entirely confidential.
My consulting room is situated in a quiet street in Penge, South East London and also, Central London.
Penge SE20 is close to Crystal Palace Park SE19 Parking is available and conveniently placed. One street from Penge East Train Station.
Bus 176, 197, 227, 194, 75, all run about a three minute walk away. I am also one street away from Penge East train station which runs from Bromley South and Victoria. Also, a five minute walk from Penge West train station which runs from Croydon and London Bridge.
