Isobel Urquhart MA

Isobel Urquhart MA
67 Old Orchard
Harlow
Essex
CM18 6YQ

tel: 01279 441337
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Counsellor Profile

I trained with the Cambridge Society for Psychotherapy (UKCP Registered) and graduated in 2003. During my training I had three years working with Cambridge University Counselling Service and continue to counsel young people studying at Cambridge University. I also maintain a private practice, in both Harlow and Cambridge. I work in a friendly informal manner and quickly establish a good confidential rapport in which to talk about painful problems and feelings. My training is psychodynamic with an emphasis on psychoanalytic approaches. This means the therapy work includes thinking and talking together about the way in which our past feelings and experiences, not all of them conscious, can unhelpfully influence our present ways of thinking and feeling and our relationships and work.
My background is in education and I have extensive experience of working with children and young people with emotional difficulties in school. I continue this work, both as a counsellor working voluntarily with Place2Be, an organisation that enables therapeutic and emotional support for children at school, and in private work. With children, I work through play materials and art work and with adolescents, art work and talking.

Training, Qualifications & Experience (more info)

I am a qualified teacher and have over 15 years experience of working with children with learning difficulties in schools
I have a Masters in Education where my thesis was on using stories therapeutically with young people.
I trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with the Cambridge Society for Psychotherapy.
I am an affiliated member of the British Psychology Society, and lecture in educational psychology.