Sonia Hilder, UKCP, BACP snr reg

Sonia Hilder, UKCP, BACP snr reg
50 Avenue Road
Trowbridge
Wiltshire
BA14 0AQ

tel: 01225 763598
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Counsellor Profile

I am a very experienced counsellor and have been a therapist for 25 years. I've worked in Relate, in the NHS as well as in private practice for the last 10 years. I am interested in helping you find the ways to heal and mend distressing patterns of thought, feeling and behaviour which may have been with you for some time. I am interested in the way in which you relate to others and to yourself, and how that helps or hinders your happiness in life. I use a variety of approaches as appropriate to each individual.
Therapy can be short term - up to six sessions, medium term - CAT of up to 24 sessions, or more rarely long terms where there are deep-seated issues.

Training, Qualifications & Experience (more info)

Relate Training 1983 -7 - Relate CCC
CAT psychotherapy training 1997 - 2001 ( King's College London) - Dip CAT
NLP practitioner training 2007 NLP practitioner

My initial training was in mental health social work, and I am experienced in mental health assessments and working with deep seated difficulties such as personality disorders and eating disorders.

I have also completed numerous short courses on other types of therapy - ie solution focus, psychodynamic, CBT and have an interest in energy psychology.

I am UKCP registered, and a senior registered member of BACP, and on the UKRC register.

Having worked in a surgery for many years I often work with anxiety, depression and relationship problems however they present.Longer term therapies have helped with issues concerning identity and value, abuse and eating disorders.
I use CAT as a good first intervention as it looks at problematic processes very clearly, and sometimes as a 'final' therapy to wrap up other pieces of work.

I also supervise counsellors and therapists including those in the NHS and voluntary agencies.