Louise Bethell |  |
|
Louise Bethell Amersham Buckinghamshire HP7 |
 |
|
tel: 07943 469372
/ 07943 469372
web: www.yourspacecounselling.com Click here to Email me |
Profile
I am an Integrative Counsellor who is registered with the BACP (British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists) and completed my qualifying, counsellor training on a humanisitic-led, BACP accredited, Post-Graduate Diploma Counselling Course.
As an Integrative Counsellor, I am able to offer you a toolbox of skills and techniques to support your needs as an individual, rather than follow any single approach to counselling which may subscribe to the idea that 'one approach fits all'.
Instead, I believe that all people are unique and subsequently provide an integrative 'mix and match' approach to our counselling work, supporting your growing and developing needs, as they occur.
I have a strong, developed background of working in mental health which initially began prior to my qualifying as a counsellor. This, I feel, has helped prime my understanding of the difficulties many of us face around gaining support and access to the help we need at times of difficulty and/or crisis.
As a former trainer in confidence building and assertiveness, I have also been fortunate enough to have gained considerable experience of working both within a group and individual context.
It is my aim to provide you with a supported sense of space and safety for you to be able to reflect on your thoughts, feelings and behaviours/actions. Through acceptance and non-judgement, I will work with you to begin the process of establishing new ways of being so that you can feel empowered to start to live an increasingly resourceful and satisfying life.
I am able to provide short-term or longer-term counselling, depending on what needs are established following our initial consultation session and later, upon natural review. I also have access to details of groups or other organisations who may be able to support your needs. My links page held within the website: www.yourspacecounselling.com may give you some initial guidance and point you in the direction of some potentially useful, self-help literature as contained within those sites mentioned.
All contact made for counselling is confidential
Training, Qualifications & Experience
- BACP Accredited Post-Graduate Diploma in Counselling
- NCFE Certificate in Counselling
- NCFE Basic Skills in Counselling
- BA (Hons)
- Brief Solution Focused Therapy, The Skills Development Service Ltd
- Health and Well-Being at Work
- Understanding Eating Disorders, Life Works Therapeutic Community
- Identifying Risk & Resilience in Children and Young People, Child Family & Adolescent Consultation Service, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Sex, Love and Romance Addiction, Life Works Therapeutic Community
- Well-Being Project, Social Services: Mental Health, Risk & Resilience and Mental Health Problems when working with Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
- Creative Approaches to Working with Trauma
- Child Protection Training
- Abusive and Co-Dependent Relationships Training with Rape Crisis
- Eating Disorders Conference and Training with the Eating Disorders Association
- Awareness, Shame, Transference and Projective Identification with Rape Crisis
- Self-Harm and Sexual Abuse Training with Rape Crisis
- The Use of Self in Therapy, Focus Counselling
- 18 hour intensive training in issues surrounding female rape, sexual abuse, domestic violence and childhood sexual abuse with Rape Crisis
- Drug Awareness Training, Social Services
- 60 Hour Cruse Bereavement Counselling Course
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Health-related depression
- Life transitions i.e. leaving home, having a family, retirement etc
- Loss i.e. of home, job, role/status, separation/divorce, fertility issues, miscarriage, termination, abortion, still birth, reduced physical ability
- Sleep disturbance
- Negative thoughts
- Loss of meaning in life
- Work with survivors of sexual violence/rape
Fees
Our first meeting acts as an initial consultation meeting and is used to establish the essence of your needs and together, agree how best you may be helped. If it is mutually felt that the counselling I provide may be able to help you with your specific need(s), then a first counselling session will then be arranged between us.
Initial Consultation Meeting of 50 mins - 1 hour: £30.00
Individual Counselling Session of 50 mins - 1 hour, weekdays: £40.00
Individual Counselling Session of 50 mins to 1 hour, Sat am only: £45.00
A concessionary fee may be available under certain circumstances.
In the event of cancellation, I ask for a minimum of 24 hours notice, otherwise a full fee is charged.
Contact made by telephone or email is confidential and will be responded to within a 48 hour period.
Further Information
I work with young people and individuals of all ages.*
*18 years +
Alongside private practice work, I am a counsellor working within a counselling and information service, provided specifically for children and young people, aged 14 - 25 yrs.
I have full, indemnity insurance for my work as a counsellor
I abide by the BACP's (British Assoc. of Counsellors and Psychotherapists) Code of Practice and Ethical Standards. For further information on this, you can access www.bacp.co.uk
