Edward Giles - BACP Accred
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Stafford Staffordshire ST17 4PE View map |
26 Waterloo Road Wolverhampton West Mids WV1 4BL View map |
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01785 606907
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Profile
My work covers and has covered a very wide range of issues which has given me a depth of experiences I believe enables me to offer broad perspectives and varying approaches that allow me to work with you in the most effective way, offering you the opportunity to explore, understand and overcome your issues, allowing you to be able to 'move on'.
I have worked as a counsellor since 2001 using an integrative approach, gaining BACP acrditation in 2009. This approach includes Person Centred Therapy as my core model, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Solution Focused Brief Intervention Therapy (SFBT) Gestalt and Transactional Analysis (TA).
I have a private practice specialising in anger management called The Anger Surgery
I was born in 1961 and have worked and lived in a variety of places around the country and feel that I have gained a valuable insight into the 'bigger picture' of people and life.
Life offers us many challenges that we may have difficulty working through. It can be at these times that we may need the help of a counsellor to find a way forward that best suits your needs.
In counselling we look at what you would want from our time together. This allows me to provide you with the most effective therapeutic approach.
Counselling takes place in a warm and comfortable, purpose-built timber building which is quiet and peaceful, in Stafford, Staffordshire.
I offer an open, non-judgemental, confidential approach to issues brought to session/s and use my knowledge and understanding of people, how they react and respond, together with your knowledge of yourself to help you find or achieve what you are looking for.
I am grounded, accepting, open and committed to provide you with the best professional service I am able to offer.
My previous / present experience covers:
- Working for Mid Staffs MIND with mental health issues, as a counsellor
- Working for a local bereavement and loss charity as a counsellor, supervisor and trainer
- Anger Management
- Couples / marriage counselling
- Working with prisioners and staff at various local prisons as a counsellor
- Worked for the Probation Service with people referred by the courts who have issues around alcohol and drugs, as a counsellor
- Worked for a local alcohol and drug service, as a counsellor
Clients are referred to me by:
- Self-referrals
- Social Services
- The Police
- The Prison Service
- G.P. surgeries
- Community Mental Health Team
- Community Projects
- Employee Assistance Programmes
Training, Qualifications & Experience
Diploma in Counselling 2003
BACP accreditation in 2009
Since 2003, I have attended various additional courses covering:
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Solution Focused Brief Intervention Therapt(SFBT)
- Anger management
- Domestic Violence
- Bereavement and Loss
- Drug Awareness
- Working with survivors of sexual abuse
- Working with sex offenders
- Personal development
- Personal Awareness
- Teaching counselling skills level 1 and 3 at a local College
Areas of counselling I deal with
- Abortion
- Abuse
- Addiction(s)
- Adoption Issues
- Affairs and Betrayals
- Alcohol Dependence
- Anger Management
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Antisocial Personality Disorder
- Anxiety
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
- Bereavement
- Binge Eating Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Bullying
- Cancer
- Career Counselling
- Child Related Issues
- Couples Counselling
- Dependent Personality Disorder
- Depression
- Domestic Violence
- Drug Abuse
- Eating Disorders
- Emotional Abuse
- Gambling
- Generalised Anxiety
- Histrionic Personality Disorder
- Low Self-Confidence
- Low Self-Esteem
- Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- Paranoid Personality Disorder
- Personality Disorders
- Phobias
- Physical Abuse
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Postnatal Depression
- Relationship Issues
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- Self Harm
- Separation and Divorce
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Issues
- Sexuality
- Smoking
- Stress
- Trauma
- Work Related Issues
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Depression, Anxiety, phobias; Bereavement and Loss, Anger Management, Low self-confidence, Low self-esteem; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Communication skills, Assertiveness; work-related issues
- Conflict and Mediation
- Couples / marriage counselling. Relationship issues; Issues of sexuality
- Termination, Miscarriage; Postnatal depression
- Traumatic Childhood experience, issues related to children and parenting
- Survivors of rape, Sexual abuse, Bullying, Physical abuse
- Drug dependance, Alcohol dependence, Eating disorders
- Self Harm
Therapies Offered
- Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies - Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Humanistic Therapies - Person-Centred Counselling
- Other Therapies - Integrative
- Gestalt Therapy
- Transactional Analysis
Fees
I charge £40.00 for a 50 minute session with some concessions at my Stafford base.
Further Information
I am a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and as such I adhere to their framework for ethical practice. (www.bacp.co.uk)
My Stafford base is on a main bus route, on the A34 with bus stops opposite 'Windsor Road' (shown as small blue squares on Google maps) with a 3 to 5 minute walk to where I work from. Please see map at bottom of the page.
There is off road parking available and you are welcome to park at the side of the road.
At My Wolverhampton base, there are many public car parks within a short walk as well as excellent public transport links.
- Online, email or telephone counselling available
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