Annie Robinson

Centre for Whole Health 12 Victoria Place Bedminster Bristol BS3 3BP View map	Fulcrum House 3 Grove Road Redland Bristol BS6 6UJ View map
01275 472744 Click here to Email me

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Offering brief and longer term counselling for people with a wide range of presenting issues, I am an experienced therapist working from two different centres in Bristol. It can be unnerving going to a counsellor and I aim to provide a safe space for you and for us to build sufficient trust and support, for you and your therapy. 
I have worked with people with a very wide range of 'issues', for example, your concerns may be: 
• a crisis situation e.g. stress, bereavement, divorce, relationships, redundancy, or other work issues
• wanting to find a new direction in life
• longer term issues e.g. illness, anxiety, abuse.
Working with a holistic attitude, my theoretical orientation is 'integrative' - drawing on and 'integrating' ideas and techniques from across the therapeutic ‘schools’ including humanistic, cognitive and psychodynamic. I believe that we are formed through our experiences of life and from our relationships with others, and so my approach is very much one that focusses on relationship and your life strategies. I take a keen interest in the whole of your 'embodied' experience including thinking, feeling and what is held in our bodies. 

The two centres I work from are: the Centre for Whole Health in Bedminster, south Bristol, where I have been running my counselling practice since 2003 and at Fulcrum House, just off Whiteladies Road in Redland - for details about these centres see 'any further information' below.

I hold professionally recognised qualifications and am a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

I do not work with children under 16 or as a couples counsellor - although I often work with people addressing their own relationship issues. I provide counselling supervision for other therapists and organisations, and have a parallel career as a trainer of counselling.  

Training, Qualifications & Experience

Training:
I have an MSc in counselling - which incorporates a professional counselling diploma, and further training in embodied therapy. My supervision training was via Cruse bereavement (Certificate) and MA modules in individual and group supervision at the University of Bristol.

Experience:
Prior to my independent practice I worked with counselling agencies specialising in bereavement and student counselling. I am a committee member of CAPPP - a networking organisation for counsellors and psychotherapists in private practice in the south west. See www.cappp.co.uk for more details. I am a tutor for a diploma in counselling run by Network, a Bristol counselling agency, having previously worked as a tutor/lecturer at the University of Bristol and then the University of Wales, Newport.

Professional membership:
I am a member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP)

Qualifications:
MSc, Counselling (University of Bristol)
Diploma and Advanced Diploma in 'Embodied Relational Therapy' (independent course)

Areas of counselling I deal with

• Abortion
• Abuse
• Affairs and Betrayals
• Anger Management
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Anxiety
• Bereavement
• Binge Eating Disorder
• Bipolar Disorder/Manic Depression
• Bulimia Nervosa
• Bullying
• Cancer
• Depression
• Disabilities
• Domestic Violence
• Eating Disorders
• Emotional Abuse
• Gender Identity
• Generalised Anxiety
• Infertility
• Low Self-Confidence
• Low Self-Esteem
• Personality Disorders
• Physical Abuse
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Postnatal Depression
• Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Relationship Issues
• Self Harm
• Separation and Divorce
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexual Issues
• Sexuality
• Spirituality
• Stress
• Trauma
• Work Related Issues

Other areas of counselling I deal with

Health issues
People in recovery from addiction
Occupational health, EAP (Employment Assistance) and other organisationally sponsored counselling

Therapies Offered

• Other Therapies
  - Integrative

Fees

For individual clients my standard rate is £42 per session; some concessions are available for people on lower incomes. For an initial 'taster' session I charge £30 - I think this initial meeting helps you to check out my approach and whether / how we will work together.

Organisational counselling fees are negotiable, depending on length of work and adminstrative requirements.

Further Information

The Centre for Whole Health in Bedminster is a complementary health centre which has full Reception facilities, provision for disabled and wheelchair users, and nearby free parking and bus routes.

Fulcrum House in Redland is in a beautiful Georgian building, which has been converted into a counselling/psychotherapy centre, and is in an easily accessed central location.

As part of Lotus Counselling I provide occupational health, EAP (Employment Assistance) and other organisationally sponsored counselling, group facilitation and/or in-house training.

I provide supervision for professional therapists.

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